Sighisoara

So for the last few days, we've been in a town called Sighisoara.

Yesterday, we walked through the old part of the city to go through museums, churches, and so on. The city is stunning. It sits in the mountains and is greener than almost anything I have ever seen. The churches are immaculately kept. Sighisoara is one
of the last walled in cities in Europe and the oldest part of it is actually considered a "citidel".
We kept commenting about how we felt like we were in Lord of the Rings most of the time. We've loved our time here so far.

Today, we held a 5 hour clinic in a rural village for any and all who wanted
to come. We did everything we could to help, which unfortunately wasn't much.

Our training is limited and we don't have all the medications people really
need (antibiotics being the most needed). We gave out vitamins, pain meds, prenatal care items, Tums, and so on but it's never enough.

Most people work all day in their fields performing manual labor and come in with serious back and arm pain and headaches (from not eating or
drinking). We told them the best thing they can do is to drink water and
take pain medications. We can't tell them to rest or take it easy because they literally cannot afford to. Farm
workers only make 30 Ron/day, which is the equivalent of $10/day. They don't
have the money to buy food and water let alone pain medications for their
aching backs. A good majority of the individuals we saw were malnourished and old and probably shouldn't be out in the fields working anymore. But we did what we could and hopefully we made a little bit of difference. Tomorrow and Wednesday, we'll be
doing something similar, except with diabetic screenings too.

It's a challenge to be unable to help as much as we want to, but with our
limited knowledge and supplies, there isn't much more that we can do. But I
suppose we are doing everything within our power to spread our help out to as many people as may need it.

We've been here for about 2 weeks now but it feels like it's been months. And I know a few Romanian phrases but for the most part, people can understand us in the cities so that helps a bit. And in clinic we have translators to help us out.

There are a million things I could talk about, but I won't because a million is a lot. I want to write a blog about our time in Brasov but I need a computer and my pictures to be uploaded to do it justice, so I will write it when I return to the mother land.

Until next time, my friends.