Author name: Gospel to Haiti

 Last Thursday night we girls had just finished spending a relaxing girl’s evening together down at ‘Nita and Rho’s abode when we heard someone ring the doorbell… The gate, that is.  Someone was making a clatter at the gate, summoning for our attention. Glenden soon answered the call and came back shortly, telling us what […]

We had another person coming in with cholera thismorning, Glenden and I took him to the clinic/hospital inBasis. Here I’m disinfecting the machine before we comeback home. This mom has had 5 baby’s and this time she just doesn’thave enough milk for it. So we are most likely going to beputting it on the Milk

   “I fell.” That pretty much sums it up. And that is why when I come in with a bloody shirt, and a mangled up head, I don’t really care how it happened, I just want that cut shut up.   But unluckily, the nurses look at it different. They begin plaguing me with questions like,

                 She was carried in by her father…laying limp in his arms. Her face was swollen and the skin on her entire body was flaking off like the scales of a fish. Her abdomen and extremities were swollen tight with edematous fluid and her hair was brittle and

Yesterday afternoon/evening was very sobering and sad for us but also very exciting! This is just a little update about the lady that we blogged about yesterday with heart failure.  As was mentioned, when she came in, she was in bad shape.  I quickly got her on oxygen in an attempt to stabilize her.  She

This little guys name is Jude, Versine. He was Born March 13, 2013. The grandma came in with the baby first, treating it very unkindly as if it were a toy that isn’t worth anything. We couldn’t do much because the mom had left the baby and went out to Port Au Prince.Today the mom came

Back again! Sorry about the lack of blogs lately, but our internet was almost non-existent for a little while.   Here is a picture I’ve wanted to post for a while.  This young man was brought to the clinic almost 2 years ago as a young lad of 13 y.o. with two badly broken legs.

Yesterday afternoon we had an older gentleman come in that had cholera. Glenden and Katie rushed him up to Basis hospital. Katie had started an IV on him. We are hoping they're going to give him the care he needs cause there's as little to know good help at that hospital.

   To me personally it seems as if there’s little else happening the last month at the clinic after hours and during the night except for babies being born. We haven’t counted them yet but I think it’s around 3 or 4 a week. I’m not sure if it ever gets old to the nurses,

… distended  tummies, brittle hair, skin lesions and infections, flaccid extremities…all the tell tale signs and symptoms of Protein/Energy Malnutrition. Sadly, these have been all too common at the clinic the last few months as I try to divide up our limited amount of protein powder to the worst cases. My heart aches as I