One Sight! A Day in the Clinic

I have finally gotten some time to de-brief and sum up the experiences I had during our OneSight experience. We had an awesome week and we treated 2,579 patients and helped them all to see better. Every patient we saw got an eye check and a pair of sunglasses. We bused patients in from the communities where we work for their particular days and times they had appointments. After we bused them in we had them go to our registration tables, visual acuity testing, dilation, auto-refraction and a control table then on to see the doctors. The photos that follow should help paint the picture of the patient experience!

One of our three buses that we used to bring people in from the rural communities where we work to the clinic.

Where we had people wait outside until it was their turn to come in and through the process.

The awesome group we got to work in partnership with for the whole week.

Registration tables where the patient's information and basic medical background were collected.

 Somehow I have no pictures from visual acuity, but for anyone who has ever had an eye exam it was basically just looking at the E charts to see what everyone was able to see with or without the glasses they may have already had.

 These are some pictures from the dilation stations, we had some awesome nurses from Mount Carmel Nursing school with us who helped out a ton during the week!

Dilation station! This was a fun station to be at for awhile and I spent some time here translating and asking people if they were pregnant because it was important to know that before giving them the drops (so naturally to break the ice a little I asked everyone, young, old, male and female if they could be pregnant, it was too funny!)

 These pictures are from auto-refraction! It was very cool that they could take pictures of a person's eye and get a reasonable estimate (in most cases) of their prescription. I learned how to use this machine during the week and that was pretty cool!

After auto-refraction, the patients went to a control table where all their information was added into their computer system and if they had glasses already those were read for their prescription.

This is an idea of how the doctor's tables looked set up in the assembly room where we were holding the clinic, there were 8 tables where we performed eye exams and looked for the correct prescriptions for everyone who we treated.

My friend Tomas and I with our sweet friend Eufrosina who was a total crack up. She had a really high prescription and it was obvious that she really hadn't been able to see for a long time. When we tried on the different lenses her reaction to each different option was just hysterical, she would start laughing hysterically and put them on and take them off and laugh every time they were on. This was one of my favorite memories of translating. I spent a lot of my time translating at the Doctor's tables, acting as the pathway through which the doctors and patients could really communicate and perform the exam.

This is John, Amigos for Christ's director sitting at one of the tables as a translator

Jack is one of our awesome staff people who was also on hand to translate during the week which was awesome

One of the doctors performing an eye check on some sweet kids of one of our employees on our last day of clinicals

After they left the doctor's tables, the patients went to the distribution table where awesome people like Thomas here helped them to fit their glasses to their face and got them outfitted with a pair of sunglasses.

 Everyone was so excited to model their new sunglasses, and these are a few of my favorite pictures from the week.

The man on the top left looked like a rockstar and that smile said it all!

The two ladies on the top right were mother and daughter and had matching sunglasses which they didn't realize until they saw eachother and then they proceeded to just crack up when they found out they had been independently fitted with the same ones!

 The lady on the bottom left was there with her grandsons who felt so cool in their new sunglasses.

The man on the bottom right is our Jefe (boss) Luis and his son Luisito after his eye check with his new cute sunglasses.





We had a great week here with One Sight, thanks to all of the awesome volunteers they brought with them! It was an awesome partnership experience and I can only hope that Amigos will be able to do this again in the future with One Sight!