I spent the last two weeks in the Dominican Republic
working with Summer's family with their mission project.
Summer's dad, Dr. Terry Dietrich and uncle, Dr. Dave Mehne
have created a mission hospital to perform orthopedic
procedures on the poor of the DR. I had the pleasure of
working in the operating room and helping those in need.
The hospital is called La Esperanze Hospital
and is in Santo Domingo.
This is the bunk house we stay in while at the hospital.
One of the four operating rooms at the hospital. This
room is set up for doing arthroscopic procedures.
Dr. Mehne suturing up after a total hip replacement.
This girl was born with 6 toes on each foot, here is the
before pic...
And after
Dr. Mehne working the saw to cut off the head of a
broken femur. After this the prosthesis is fitted and
placed in the joint.
After the week at the hospital we spent a few days at
the beach house in Cabarete. It rained most of this time, but
that didn't stop us from enjoying the beach.
I always enjoy getting dominated by Terry on the links,
but it is at least a little easier to swallow when we play on
an amazing course like Playa Grande. A world class
course, the nicest and toughest I have played. Terry again
came out on top but I put in one of my best days on the
course in years.
6 of the holes of this course are on the cliffs of the ocean.
The views were amazing and the golf was great.
