July 2012

Last week was a very busy time… we had enough cases come in that I didn’t post all at the same time and consequently missed some! Here is one such case- you remember the baby that needed to be on oxygen last week? That baby was released fairly soon after coming, but not 12 hours […]

One case that came in this last week was a certain elderly lady who fell and almost cut her ear off on a rock. We’re not sure why she fell and she doesn’t remember what happened (she had a possible concussion). One way or another, she woke up in her house with her ear nearly

Several (or maybe even many) of you would remember our neighbor, Mèt Claudener. He and his wife live right in front of the mission and have four children- all boys 🙂 His wife came into the clinic the other day in labor. The nurses weren’t expecting any complications, but everyone was hoping the baby would

Well, I forgot to post this story earlier on this week, but better late than never, right? For those of you that of a more squeamish constitution, I regret to tell you that we will, once again, delve into the realms of yuckiness 🙂 Some of these cases are (admittedly) not for the faint of

Finally! A break from the nasty, yucky and bloody cases that almost always come in! Yesterday a father brought his little 11 month-old baby to the clinic. It was wheezing, coughing and had a fever of 103 degrees. They checked out its o2 sat… it was in the low 70’s! They immediately put it on

I’ve heard of “hen-pecked” but what do you do with someone that’s been “pig-bit”? 🙂 Apparently this guy was in market, hanging around the pig pens when one of the swine must’ve taken offense to his presence. It lashed out, lacerating this calf-muscle and making a mess of it. He came limping into the clinic

Another day, another bump! Some youngsters came around the other day, one of them needing a bandage on his head. What they did, we’re not entirely sure, but they were working (“ap travay”) in their family garden when it happened. The result was a small puncture wound on the top of one little guy’s head.

Remember that young man that jumped down a tree, landing squarely on his machete?  Well, he came back the other day for a checkup and things are looking great! Seems like it is healing up very well! Michael and Anita examining the cut: They decided to keep some stitches in, since it was still wanting

There have been so many incidents with picks you would almost wonder if there was a serial-picker going around, causing mayhem and panic amongst the inhabitants of Aleg. Well, it turns out, there is no one person inflicting all these injuries: with everyone working their gardens, it’s just Murphy’s law in full motion! 🙂 As you might

Once in a while I like to get inside people’s days and see what goes on; hear how they feel about it and what makes their job, well… their job!This time I asked Breanna (one of our nurses down here) to write about her everyday life in the clinic and give us some perspective on