Today is Friday, end of our week here in Biloxi. We have decided to stay another week, it is too cold to go home to Ohio anyway. H is going to work part of Saturday with the rest of the group from Willard, in a house in D'Iberville. I will probably clean Moose and do the laundry. Tomorrow night we will all go out to dinner.
Next week H already has an assignment on some houses, I will work at the free clinic again, we will have a doctor everyday, so we will be busy. Too bad that the state of Mississippi is so shortsighted that they have decided that doctors from out of state cannot come to assist in the free clinic anymore. Apparently the local Docs think the free clinic is taking away there business. The people that come to the free clinic, come because they cannot afford to pay for a doctor visit, either because they are homeless, work a minimum wage job, or their insurance has such a high deductible they cannot pay it. Nurses can still come from out of state, but they will only allow a nurse to get a temporary permit one time. There are several local retired Docs that volunteer, but not enough to cover all the days. The clinic will be moving out of Bethel Lutheran to another site when they get there grant to assist them. Pray for that to come thru. People here need all the assist they can get. And for anyone who wonders why we are here and not helping in our home area, we do help there, in fact I volunteer at a clinic back home.
Volunteer, there are people who need help, and they certainly appreciate your help.
Enough preaching. I hope at least one person steps up to make a difference in another's life.
