Roma and Reilly did a great job relating to kids and their families. About 50 kids showed up for screening. The vast majority were revisions, 8 were cleft palates. There were 5 kids with lips. One was a facial cleft girl, 6 months old. The surgeons are putting her on the schedule later in the week, but say that the result will not be good and that she will require several surgeries to fix her lip and nose. Two other lips were girls, one 2 months old, one 3 months old. We settled on 2 boys, both named Christopher, one is 7 months old and the other 14 months old, but looks 6 months. Reilly and Roma really took to the little boys and
their mothers.
We followed these boys through screening and one boy, the 7 year old, who has a revision, but he is a cutie named Johan. The two younger boys and the young girls with lips were all rejected because of illness (blood count, infections, fevers, etc). Roma and Reilly were devastated even though the local team promised that these kids will get their turn soon. That leaves us with Johan who is on the schedule for tomorrow morning. We'll follow him and also pickup another kid (hopefully a girl) from Pre-Op tomorrow. Three surgeries were performed this evening. A tongue tie, a revision and a cleft palate. Reilly and Roma did a stand up intro, related to the camera during screening and then did an end-of-day recap. They work well together. They were wet dishrags going back to the hotel...as were we all.
Tomorrow we will follow Johan from 7:30am to 10:30am, see what other kid we can follow, then plan on getting some reflections from Roma and Reilly of the mission experience, record some VO. The Survivor team arrives in 2 groups. Group one comes at 8:00am for a couple of hours. Jeff arrives at 10:30 and leaves at noon. All of this is happening at the same time as our scheduled kids, but we'll do what we can. The team is a good one. Well organized. They have scheduled 32 surgeries and hope to do a few more depending on time and health of patients. That's it from Nicaragua. Best to you all back in the states.
Roma and Reilly did a great job relating to kids and their families. About 50 kids showed up for screening. The vast majority were revisions, 8 were cleft palates. There were 5 kids with lips. One was a facial cleft girl, 6 months old. The surgeons are putting her on the schedule later in the week, but say that the result will not be good and that she will require several surgeries to fix her lip and nose. Two other lips were girls, one 2 months old, one 3 months old. We settled on 2 boys, both named Christopher, one is 7 months old and the other 14 months old, but looks 6 months. Reilly and Roma really took to the little boys and
We followed these boys through screening and one boy, the 7 year old, who has a revision, but he is a cutie named Johan. The two younger boys and the young girls with lips were all rejected because of illness (blood count, infections, fevers, etc). Roma and Reilly were devastated even though the local team promised that these kids will get their turn soon. That leaves us with Johan who is on the schedule for tomorrow morning. We'll follow him and also pickup another kid (hopefully a girl) from Pre-Op tomorrow. Three surgeries were performed this evening. A tongue tie, a revision and a cleft palate. Reilly and Roma did a stand up intro, related to the camera during screening and then did an end-of-day recap. They work well together. They were wet dishrags going back to the hotel...as were we all. 
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