Author name: Gospel to Haiti

     The other week there was a man who came into clinic with severe pain in his stomach, dehydration and some vomiting. We admitted him and observed him, giving him ORS and an IV. His pain moved from his stomach to his chest, to his upper back, and then finally his lower back. It […]

   They were eating cake. It was a birthday party. But not everyone was sitting there laughing.              Because a little baby had come in weighing  2lb. 3oz. near the end of clinic. He was adorable, but not well. He was only about 96 degrees, and draining a strange yellow-green

  Whitney, me, Dr Felix, Bro. Mark (background), and Elvie’s daughterElvie on the bed This story This story didn’t just happen, but I still wanted to tell it!  After clinic last Fri, we gathered supplies, headed home for a quick lunch, and then loaded into the Bobcat to do a house visit.  This house call

 I was just letting out a deep sigh of relief after a rather stressful birth on Saturday, when I was called outside to check a patient. He was laying in the arms of his mother…and I almost had to dig around in the blankets to find him. A tiny, itsy-bitsy, face peered out at me.

Sunday afternoon we got word there's a dad by the gate with his son who needs medical help. The picture talks plenty enough. He fell and he cut his upper for head open and his chin as well. He would not be comforted whatsoever and after hours of hard work Rhoda and Katie were excited

Here is the diagnoses we received from the clinic out by Titayan where we sent the little boy with the clouded eye. Also an update from this morning. He came to the clinic this morning and Anita is now working on trying to book him in with a surgeon in Port for the needed surgery.

Taking a patient to Grafu.     On Wednesday I came home from church to find out that Glenden is taking Anita and Katie to Grafu for a house call, so I jumped with. First we picked up this gentleman above, he is I believe 87 years old and has different ailments, shigilosis for one

      Besides telling some people it is a good idea to brush their teeth, we have been having fun giving out a few free toothbrushes, tooth paste, and bath towels recently.     Somewhere in the fluff and stuff we found we have these nice little hygiene kits waiting for recipients. Well, giving things

Whitney entering med’s inventory Rhoda and Whitney spend a good part of each Saturdayin the pharmacy restocking and doing inventory, Last night I answered a knock at the gate before the others got home formthe orphanage, there were 36 people with him, he was said to have fallen onthe mountain and hurt his eye. Smelling

Possibly these happy little faces won’t mean as much to everyone else as they do to us nurses.  We decided to have balloon day for the children and give a balloon to each child that came through the clinic.  It was fun to see their responses! This little fellow has been coming with an abscess