Author name: Gospel to Haiti

I enjoy Tuesdays.  Monday morning always feels so rushed, as there is usually quite a few patients that are waiting to be seen, and rendezvouses to be taken care of, and everyone is still trying to wake up after the weekend.  Tuesdays are generally slower.  Time can be taken to talk to the blood pressure

when you think “Valentine’s Day”?                           Something like this, right?   Not sick and dying people, especially not one like this one- a young 25 year old man that should be well and strong and full of life! His family carried him into the clinic on a cot this morning, telling us that he had been sick

    That’s what the rest of them did. And left us five girls home alone with a phone number. So far, we’ve survived, but it’s been an interesting day, and we’ve only called the phone number once. Next time, I think we’ll just go along to TiGoave with the rest, though, because, when it

I dreamed of someday growing up and being a veterinarian when I was a kid.  I never imagined that I would end up as a nurse working in Haiti.  And it certainly never crossed my mind that I would end up assisting in veterinarian work while working as a nurse in Haiti. :o)  Fre Direk, one

had none. :[   You remember Jean Franz?   I knew it was only a matter of time before his toe came off.  Last Thursday it was dead enough to snip the last little bit of skin holding it on without him even noticing.   I think he was a bit surprised to sit up and see it was gone!  I can’t say that

   Babies are gifts straight from heaven. The more infants I see making it safely into the world, the more I believe it. There are so many things that can go wrong. In this case the baby was fine, but the mom went through some trauma after the birth. This was the first time I

Hello from the newest member of the clinic team.  My name is Kindra Stoll.  I’ll be around for the next year, Lord willing, so I’ve been told I’m supposed to introduce myself to everyone.  I’m from Tennessee, and am the daughter of Ervin & Linda Stoll, for all of you genealogy-lovers out there. :o)  I’ve

…is the 16 year old boy who first showed up at the clinic Jan 7th, with a very badly burnt foot.   (I think Rho briefly mentioned him awhile back)  They said he fell into the fire.  At first we couldn’t tell how deep the damage was.  We cleaned it and bandaged it with B&W creme and gave him

  The other morning I woke up and ran to the door. “What?” I yelled.    Nobody was there. It was just a bad dream.    Well, this morning, someone WAS there, when I ran to answer the call.    “Are you up yet?” Steve wondered.    “Yes,” I said, trying to make it sound

…for another blog post!  Sometimes we have a hard time finding something interesting to blog about.  Sometimes we have lots to blog, but we get so busy with everything happening that we just don’t have time to blog anything.  And then sometimes we have something to blog and the time to blog it, but really bad internet connection.