{"id":749,"date":"2010-12-17T11:11:36","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T16:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/?p=749"},"modified":"2010-12-17T11:11:36","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T16:11:36","slug":"the-eye-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/2010\/12\/17\/the-eye-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"the Eye Clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"

We just finished hosting an Eye Clinic for the people of Las Moras and the surrounding villages!\u00a0 In 3 days, we saw 122 people!\u00a0 The first day we saw 35 people.\u00a0 We felt good with all the people we were able to help and we were tired.\u00a0 The next day, we saw 37 people.\u00a0 Then, the last day, by the grace of God, I’m still not sure how we did it, but we saw 50 people!\u00a0 And we only had 1 doctor!<\/p>\n

We got to the clinic early the first day to set up.\u00a0 Before we were ready, we already had 3 guys outside waiting.\u00a0 We let them in, signed them up and got started.\u00a0 From that point on, for the next 3 days, there was always someone waiting, ready to see the doctor.<\/p>\n

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\"People<\/a>
People waiting in the clinic and outside<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I sat at the front desk, signing people up on the list, preparing their chart, getting their eye history, and doing the preliminary check with the big E chart to determine their distance vision.<\/p>\n

When it was their turn, they would get a consultation with the ophthalmologist that came from the US to help us out for a few days.<\/p>\n

\"Exam<\/a>
Exam with the doctor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He would check their eyes and determine whether they needed glasses or if we had glasses to help them.\u00a0 Sometimes they would come back out to use the big E chart to check their trial prescription.<\/p>\n

\"Checking<\/a>
Checking a prescription to see if it helps<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Frank's<\/a>
Frank and his new glasses<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then, from there they would go to our “glasses” room where they would try out the glasses that were their prescription to see which one would help them most and fit best.\u00a0 We gave them that pair and taught them how to clean the glasses and gave them a case to store them in.<\/p>\n

Out of the 122 people that we helped, we probably gave out glasses to 3\/4 of them.\u00a0 Some people had such bad sight they could only see a few feet in front of them.\u00a0 And yet, they climb in and out and around the canyons all the time.\u00a0 It is amazing what some of the people still do with very little sight.<\/p>\n

Lord-willing, the glasses will be a great benefit to the people and they will create open doors for relationships.<\/p>\n

Many people that we did not know came from surrounding communities to be helped by the eye doctor.\u00a0 I am so thankful to God for the beginning of relationships that we have now with those people in those communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We just finished hosting an Eye Clinic for the people of Las Moras and the surrounding villages!\u00a0 In 3 days, we saw 122 people!\u00a0 The first day we saw 35 people.\u00a0 We felt good with all the people we were able to help and we were tired.\u00a0 The next day, we saw 37 people.\u00a0 Then, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":304,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[423],"tags":[2423,2399],"class_list":{"0":"post-749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news-article","7":"tag-community-development","8":"tag-eye-clinic","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}