Author name: Gospel to Haiti

                            Meet Alexis. He is thirty-two. He arrived in our hospital, breathing hard. We tried to make him comfortable. We put him on oxygen. We arranged his pillows. We dosed up some meds. As soon as  we left his bed, he called out, “Nurse, nurse! Come here. Don’t you see me?”    So we returned. We arranged his […]

” Mis, please, I need to tell you sorry.” I nodded absent mindedly as I continued to apply pressure to his abcess.“Mis,I lied to you.” I looked up, slightly more interested, “About what did you lie?” ” I told you I was a Christian, but I am not.” I put my gauze down on the

Ah, back to blogging, and having a hard time of it deciding WHAT to blog, ’cause so many things have happened since I got back!  Maybe I should have blogged sooner.  🙂  Two very full weeks have rushed by, sweeping me right back into the strong current of constant clinic commotion and everyday life in Allegré, Haiti.  Sometimes it feels

…when a Band-Aid just won’t fix it.   The two stitch jobs below are the two I mentioned awhile back. This guy told us that his brother got angry at him and his mom gave his brother a knife and he cut him with it.   Ugly story, beautiful healing… Lovenski, the 9-yr old boy

     It is Monday. Never start a day without prayer. Especially a Monday. When you run into men like this.      It is hard to know what to write about today. Look for yourself. We had the skin issues. Babies to treat, bathe, and follow for the next couple weeks. A lady came

Christmas Time for the Nurses! And a  Stitch Job… Finally the long awaited for meds arrived from CAM. We had so much fun rummaging through the boxes and finding a whole bunch of treasures. We felt like we were opening Christmas presents! I have learned to appreciate meds and what they do for people, much more

“Its twins”…was the verdict of 3 tired nurses as they carefully slid the ultrasound probe over the woman’s very pregnant belly. Glancing at each other we nod in unison. “Twins”. She needs to go out. We all realize that our diagnosis could be wrong but what if it was twins and we are not equipped to

    Pumpkin soup. Exactly. Maybe it would be better than you think. Maybe if it was all you got to eat all day, you would think it was good. Joe said, “I always love when you come.”    Joe gets none too much love. He suffers way too much pain. But when we see him

  Yesterday we had a great time cooking corn and bean sauce at the neighbors house after work. One of my patients brought it as a gift and it made a great BIG pot.. enough to share with neighbors and all the hungry little bellies always begging for food. Happy faces…eating off of Mali’s plate 🙂

Two, skinny, little Haitian grandpas. One healing and one dying, one lying and one singing. I don’t know if any of you remember the blog Kin had posted about “143 Maggots”?  Our dying patient is Jo, the one that Whit removed 143 maggots from his pressure ulcer wound. He seemed to be really picking up