Charity Surgery

The local countryside

David McDaniel, John Barrington and Dan Murphy peforming a Total Knee Replacement

Three of our patients

A boy with such severe clubfeet that he wore his shoes backwards.

The knee is pointing up in this photo. It was taken in the OR prior to attempting to repair this severe clubfoot.

At the end of the procedure (there was a lot of sweatin' and cussin' involved in doing this as it was one of the hardest surgeries I've been in on), the foot is facing frontward in the cast.

At our next trip a year later, one foot is facing forward and the other still backwards, he is anxiously awating repair of the second foot

Final view of feet in 2006

Happy Kid

Preop photo of a woman whose husband cut off both of her hands with a machete. Prosthetic hands are a poor option in 3rd world countries.

Dr. Jan Leo performed Krukenberg's operation to separate the radius and ulna providing the patient with a "grasping claw."

A year later she is using the "claw" to feed herself without a prosthesis.

John Lohnes, Vicki Moore, Jenny Hooker doing a caudal block

This 26 year old woman had walked on the side of her clubbed foot for her entire life.

At the end of the procedure her foot is back on straight.

A year later she came back to show us how happy she was to walk on the bottom of her foot.

2006 group on wrecked tank from war

March 2005 dinner

2004 group

Mac

Boy in wheelchair

Carroll and Felix Gonzales operating on a boy's leg

Aug '06 gang at dinner

Aug '07 Lunch at Pollo Frit

Jan and Felix Balladeres work on tendons

Patients and families waiting to be seen in clinic

TarHawk cast (partly light blue, partly red)

Felicia Sumpter at the cross on the mountain west of Jinotega.

Riding out to the finca Aug 2009

Now that's a bad supracondylar humerus fracture

Supracondylar humerus fracture post op

Murphy, Kauk and Jose (Cuervo)

James Meeker, Bob Esther, Felix Balladeres excising tumor, leg

A letter of thanks from 15 year old Morelia Cruz

Three fingered hand (congenital)

A two year old girl whose tibia was destroyed by osteomyelitis

X-ray of her leg showing the loss of the tibia

Reconstruction of the leg by moving the fibula over to replace the tibia (tibia pro fibula)

Followup 8 months later