Clinic Report - April 2015 - Flying Samaritans

Flying Samaritans
Mother Lode Chapter
Clinic Report - April, 2015
From Sr. Bilito…
S
ix aircraft flew to San Quintin this month: Ney Grant flew Bruce
When the Rotarians visited the clinic last, Carroll Dudley was asked to
Hultgren, Bryan Krey, DDS & Gwen Douglass.
Joel flew Phil
provide a support pad for a large suction machine that Todd acquired.
Lancaster, Mariana Locke & Winston Burke. Doug Wirzberger flew
Carroll decided that we need a new outbuilding to house the equipment,
his daughter, Megan, Aaron Krey & David Stanwick. David Shoemaker flew
hopefully provided by the Rodriquez family. Doug (aka Henry Kissinger) met
Joshua Jaramillo, Dr. Jacob Gregerson & Jacob's wife, Celestine.
with two of the Rodriquez brothers & Arturo (son of the deceased Rodriquez)
Chris
Nelson flew Debbie Marino & me. Todd Makiyama flew his wife, Theresa, &
to ask them to build this new outbuilding.
Chris Spain (from Seattle). Joe Zachwieja drove down with Lena Trinh. This
perhaps Doug can give us more info.
was a record number of aircraft & personnel for our clinic. Beautiful flying
We celebrated Megan's 13th birthday along with the "Black Widows." Gwen
weather.
remains a real gem and continues to supply everyone with a delicious
Friday night saw a large number traveling to town for street tacos followed by
assortment of cookies.
an ice cream cone for the piggish.
It is always interesting talking with the volunteers. David is a software
Saturday was a busy day with four dentists working steadily, alternating use of
engineer and was a member of the team that developed the soon-to-be-
the chairs as only one is fully functional. Todd will write a report. The eye
released Apple wrist watch. His description of how carefully Apple protected
clinic was busy as well. Joe will report. The medical clinic was busy with
the research include a 100 pound safe for each watch that the developers
Mariana, Jacob & Joshua. Joshua is in his third year of medical school at
wore.
Stanford; he has a 3-year-old plus 9-month-old twins. There have been many
something even greater - who knows what? More secrecy.
sleepless nights when one twin cried and woke the other up, but now that they
Returning home required all planes to check out at a port of entry - all chose
are older, things are better. Mariana & Jacob saw a young man who was
Mexicali. Exiting through Tijuana on Sundays costs $125 per plane. Since
locally diagnosed with typhoid fever, confirmed by blood titers. Unfortunately
Calexico is closed to replace the runway, entering the U.S. meant Brown
for him, the antibiotic given was not helping him, so he came to our clinic after
Field (Joel entered through Yuma). At Brown, one of the fuel dispensing
one week of no improvement. The two medics checked the books & found that
stations was broken, so all planes had to travel to the west end of the field.
he should respond to Bactrim which he was given. Hopefully, he will return to
We spent about two hours there, causing us to arrive back in Placerville
clinic next month for followup. Many times, patients will visit our clinic with a
around 4 p.m. Naturally, we had head winds all the way home.
previous, accurate diagnosis, but they want a confirmation from a U.S. medic.
Sr. Bilito
Chris Nelson & his wife are determined to give a kit of tooth paste, tooth brush,
Apparently they agreed, so
He left Apple in November to join a team that want to develop
pencil, paper, band aids, etc. to every child who visits our clinic. They provided
8 small, 23 medium, & 20 large kits to kids plus 86 hand bags to the women.
Ney Grant provided UPS transportation for all of the kits.
On Saturday morning Joe, Chris & I visited Martha and Manuel Rodriquez to
seek financial help for our organization. Joe was seeking their intervention in
getting refunds from the governor of Baja for all of the visa fees we have paid
on our humanitarian visits. Joe is tenacious and continues his pursue this
issue.
A panoramic shot of the beach and Hotel Santa Maria. We are truly lucky to serve the needy in such a beautiful setting.
Dental Report
T
he April 2015 dental half of the Mother Lode, San Quintin clinic was an epic clinic in many ways. Once again,
we had a record 4 dentists in attendance this April clinic - Dr. Theresa Makiyama, Dr. Bryan Krey, Dr
Christopher Spain, and me. Along with untiring and ever-essential help from Winston Burke and some great
emotional support from our very own birthday girl, Gwen, the four dentists/crew did awesome work along with breaking
a record or two.
For the first time in my recollection, this clinic performed more restorative procedures than extractions/pain
management. Although I find infection and pain management to be the key element in our visit due to our frequency
of being there along with our mission parameters, our four dentists chugged through the pain/infection lists like a
machine and was therefore able to dedicate much of the day to restorative dentistry. We extracted 30 teeth on
Saturday. We restored 39 fillings. With the limitations of the condition of our equipment - that's quite an incredible
task!
Dr. Todd Makiyama
Dr. Chris Spain and Dr. Bryan Krey.
The magic of Dr. Dao-Makiyama!
Dr. Krey helps a federalie with a
badly infected tooth.
Dr. Dao-Makiyama and rookie assistant Winston Burke. This was
Winston’s first clinic, and hopefully not his last. He mastered his
“dental assistant” skills and speaks fluent Spanish.
Vision Report
T
he optical team of Bruce, Lena, Judy, and me couldn't have been busier.
We dispensed 60 of 63 new prescription glasses from the orders made in January, February, and
March. All patients were able to see at least the second line from the bottom on the chart when we
checked to see if the glasses were made correctly except for 1. It was determined,with the lensometer that
that pair was not made correctly. I will deal with that matter with the manufacturer.
We examined 65 new patients out of which 41 new glasses need to be ordered which will be dispensed next
month. A new digital pupillometer was also used for more accurate PD measurements for each eye (instead
of using a ruler).
In addition, we dispensed several reading glasses and gave out all the sun glasses that we had. I didn't count
those. About 150 people were expertly served by the optical group. Joe Zachwieja
Photo Moments…
“Fan Doctor” Dave Stanwick
attempts to bring this fan back
to life. Despite his best efforts,
the fan perished. :(
Doug Wirzberger and daughter Megan wonder if it’s
possible to use an Autoclave to heat up a frozen
burrito.
Amazing to see how much donated toys can brighten the
day of our patients.
The April, 2015 gang (from left to right): Dr. Todd Makiyama, Winston Burke, Dr. Jacob Gregerson, Sr. Bilito, Celestine YeungGregerson, Joel Prosser, Dr. Bryan Krey, Marianna Locke, Bruce Hultgren, Dr. Chris Spain, Ney Grant, Gwen Douglass, Dave
Stanwick, Lena Trinh, Aaron Krey, Dr. Theresa Dao-Makiyama, Joe Zachwieja, Phil Lancaster, Doug Wirzberger, Megan Wirzberger