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March 2020 Mission to Bolivia<\/p>\n

In Spanish, Operation Rainbow is \u201cArco Iris\u201d, making this story especially touching.<\/p>\n

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2 year old Iris.<\/p><\/div>\n

In Bolivia, the families hear several weeks in advance about Operation Rainbow\u2019s upcoming mission via any number of ways: Paper flyers, internet, radio, religious networks and word of mouth. Over the years and in various countries our team of doctors and nurses have heard endless touching stories about how these brave families and children, many of them having little or no resources to get from their home base to our care.\u00a0 These patients must get to\u00a0the specific location for \u201cpre-selection\u201d (evaluation to see if they are a candidate for the surgeries being offered) followed by \u201cselection\u201d (re-evaluation and scheduling for the upcoming Operation Rainbow clinic) followed by attending the Sunday clinic the week of the mission and then actually being selected in clinic to have the proposed surgery during the following 4 chaotic days.<\/p>\n

\"\"One of our patients, an incomparably gorgeous 2-year old\u00a0named\u00a0Iris, lives in a village about 15 miles away from the Hospital Bahia de Oriente in\u00a0Santa Cruz, the Bolivian city of some 2 million where our Operation Rainbow mission is held.\u00a0\u00a0Iris lives with her Mother and grandparents — a family existing in deep poverty. \u00a0Iris\u2019 mom heard about Operation Rainbow\u2019s impending visit, and about the daunting pre-selection, selection process to explore whether her daughter\u2019s congenital right hip dysplasia could be helped or even possibly corrected by surgical intervention.\u00a0\u00a0That arduous process deflated her deepest hopes that her daughter might be such a candidate, but even more daunting to her mom was the 2 Boliviano bus fare (around 30 US cents) required for the trip to Santa Cruz\u2014the family did not have 2 Bolivianos to spare!\u00a0Mom agonized about this predicament and finally borrowed the 2 Bolivianos and set off on the bus with Iris to travel to the CRE pre-selection gathering some weeks before the Operation Rainbow mission.<\/p>\n

On that first bus ride, Iris\u2019 mom found 900 Bolivanos (approx. $130) laying on the floor of the bus.\u00a0\u00a0In deep shock and relief, her mom knew it would fund all potential aspects of her daughter\u2019s attempts to get that dysplastic hip fixed, and Iris might have the chance to lead a physically normal and unrestricted childhood and life.<\/p>\n

Iris was in fact selected for pre-selection and selection, seen amongst the 200+ children and families screened by the surgeons and anesthesiologists in the Sunday clinic, and then operated upon on Wednesday March 4th, 2020 for acetabular (\u201ccup\u201d) reconstruction, a pretty hefty pelvic surgery for a 2-year old. Her operative and immediate postoperative course went as smoothly as possible.
\n\"\"Many thanks to Iris and her mom for such a poignant reminder of what REALLY matters, and for providing all of us a view of a true living, talking, smiling, and now hopefully painlessly-walking Iris! Operacion Arco Iris!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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