23Feb: Tuesday. Last full day of clinics. We will quit about mid-day tomorrow and start 
cleaning up, packing up. Planes to take us out, back to Puerto Limpeira, will probably 
start shuttling us early Thursday morning. We will probably be out of meds and have 
only a little food left by tomorrow PM. Will have to shut down the radios tomorrow 
afternoon, take down the antennas, pack everything up for the trip.   

We seem to be seeing fewer patients today. Not sure why. Perhaps a surge this 
afternoon. A lot of the patients we flew in to PLP last week returned by plane 
yesterday.  Unlikely we will fly any more out in the next two days. We are bumping 
up against our limit on aviation fuel and we need what is left to fly us out on 
Thursday. No good options for us if we cannot go out by plane. It is about a 2 
hour walk to the Kruta River  and then 4+ hours travel by motorized canoe down the 
river and across the lagoon to get to PLP. Quite a journey.  And we have a lot of 
gear to lug. The bridge across the local creek is washed out so trucks cannot reach 
our village. Government says it has no money to repair the bridge, so Lisangnipura 
is more isolated than normal. 

 It is HOT.   95 degrees F. at 1PM with only a slight breeze, inside the women's 
house and kitchen.. Very humid. Probably slightly less than that inside the clinic 
where we have a high ceiling and a little breeze blowing through the main room. 
Sweat is pouring off of all of us and we are drinking a lot of water.  It is so 
hot this PM that my radio is getting close to overheating as I use it! Temperature 
gauge says it is close to shut-down temp. I have an old 12 volt fan that I used to 
use in my WD truck in Arizona, many years ago. It still works so I have it
 hooked up to the power supply and ste to blow across the cooling fins on the radio. 
It helps!  Pushed temps well down into the safe zone.  Wish it was big enough to 
push air my way.  It is difficult to fall asleep at night because of the oppressive 
heat. You just lay still in your mosquito tent, sweating, until you finally fall 
asleep. Last night, someone in the village decided to build or repair something; 
he/she was hammering all night long.  Kept us awake until we finally were fell 
asleep from exhaustion.  The people here, of course, are not as affected by the 
heat as we are. But they too stay out of the sun and do not do very much in the 
mid-day heat.

A mother just brought in a small child who had just pulled a pan of hot water off 
a table and scalded his neck. He is screaming in pain. They are trying to cool down 
the burn (difficult in this heat), clean it, and will give him some medicine for 
pain.  Hopefully the mother will be able to keep it from becoming infected after 
we leave.  

We shut down a bit early - 4PM. It was so hot and everyone was dehydrated. Some 
went to the river for a swim. I stayed back because I have an infected cut on my 
shin that is hurting pretty bad. They gave me some antibiotics. Need to watch it.