He is paralyzed from the waist down. Like many others on the local commercial diving boat, he had stayed underwater too long. The unreliable equipment he used had not accurately gauged his oxygen flow, and as he swam to the surface for oxygen the rapid decrease in atmospheric pressure caused him to suffer decompression sickness, also known as the bends. Time in the clinic's decompression chamber may enable him to walk again in the future, but it cannot restore his career as a diver. As the day progresses a pregnant mother, a man with a machete cut to the back of his head, a patient with a snakebite, and people sick with malaria, cholera, and tuberculosis pour into the Clinica Evangelica Morava.
Clinic staff deliver a baby boy, stitch wounds, and distribute medicine.
At 9 p.m. the lights go out at the end of another fifteen-hour day. He spent time at the Clinica Evangelica Morava, observing and, in some cases, providing assistance to the medical professionals. Among the doctors, nurses, and volunteers, RCA missionaries Drs. Gerard Rudy and Norvelle Goff-Rudy work in cooperation with the Moravian church in Honduras to direct the Ahuas clinic and supervise medical programs in the La Mosquitia area.