We had another safe birth just a few days ago. The mother came in I think on Tues just as clinic was finishing. We gave her a bed in the hospital room, and keep checking on her. Labor was slow, but later evening it picked up. Her baby girl was born just after 11 pm, […]
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Often we have very strange and extreme cases coming into the clinic, but I don’t think there has been one this bad in the recent past, that I can remember… Yesterday this poor lady came into the clinic with two serious ear infections: so serious, the skin was literally rotting off and her ear canals
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On Sunday we received a request to do a house call for an elderly lady. They said she was having shortness of breath and chest pain, so Anita, Virginia and Brieanna went to check things out. So, off we trekked down the riverbed to find her house… Thankfully, the riverbed was dry, even though we’ve
Yesterday we had a post about the little baby girl who hadn’t eaten for 15 days; several hours after she came in, we decided she needed to go out to the hospital in town. She had stabilized and we felt it would be better for her to be in the hospital. So, yesterday when Michael
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Today a woman came in with her newborn baby girl. It is severely emaciated, and when asked when the last time it ate, she said it hadn’t eaten since it was born– 15 days ago! Michael, Anita and Virginia are working hard to keep it alive and revive it. It’s in very bad shape. Please
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There is a man from church that has been wanting us to give medicine for his wife now for a long time, but she is not able to get around well and thus doesn’t get down to the clinic. (They live up the mountain about 35 minutes hike from the mission.) Andrew, his sister Abigail,
You never know what it will be next. This lady received a nasty head gash. Here is Mis Leda stitching her up Mis Joselaine rechecking the wound a day or so later
Well, the first baby was born around 7:30 pm. It was a little boy. He was born with the cord around his neck, and it took some suctioning and stimulating to get him to breathe. Yes, I’ve delivered quite a few babies, but that is still scary. Thankfully he was soon breathing well. He weighed
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Right now I have two ladies in labor at the clinic. (Michael and Virginia are out for the weekend so it’s up to the Haitian nurses and I.) Last Sat was crazy with emergencies too, and this one hasn’t proved a lot different. I’m expecting a call about any time again that I need to
This man needed an infected wound cleaned and bandaged so Mis Leda set to work Often times we only put the “big” things on the blog, but normal clinic work consists of many small jobs–dressing small wounds, treating someone’s cold, or even talking to a worried mother about her baby’s health. Our desire is to
