1. Lisa, Caitlin & Rosalyn at the morning conference.
2. Rosalyn received a big promotion - directly to the OR where she cleaned instruments.
3. These are parents of our patients looking at the morning paper.
4. This is what they were looking at. A full page in the largest daily paper in Shenyang telling the story of our mission.

We completed 8 surgeries yesterday. We got a slow start, but things went well. Caitlin is getting pretty tired since she remains in the OR for both shifts. We are hoping that is the last day she does that.

We sent some of the patients home that we treated yesterday. It is so much fun to have the parents come by and thank you and to see the smile on their faces. I'll post a few pictures some of the cleft palate patients who still have the tongue suture in.

One story. One mother whose daughter has a double cleft lip, registered the child yesterday. She just had one question. "If the surgery fails will she be even more ugly?" I'm sure what the mother said in Chinese lost a lot in translation, but the mother was expressing the attitude in the villages towards kids with clefts. These kids are not unloved, but they are scared because of their physical defect. When you fix a face on a child you change not only his/her life but the lives of the entire family. Maybe even the community.