Mission trip to the DR

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.