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
Just a shot of our head pharmacist at work! The man who had the rock injury on his head is doing very well! When he returned for his check-up, we were happy to see that the injury didn’t affect him mentally as it could have from the magnitude of the hit. The little girl who
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Right on the heals of the little girl with rock injuries came a man with a large cut on his head… caused by (you guessed it) a rock! Apparently he had been in his garden, sharpening his sepid (a curved tool, used for lightly tilling the ground and chopping weeds- similar to a small scythe)
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Depending where you live in the States, it may seem strange to have people coming into a hospital with deep wounds caused by falling rocks. Down here in Haiti it is pretty rare when we don’t have patients coming in with serious injuries caused by either a rock falling on them, or they falling on
Perhaps you have never heard of folliculitis? No? That’s ok. Neither did I until this afternoon when a man and his boy came to the gate! The boy’s face was all swollen, and he could only see out of one eye. His hair was dirty, with infection oozing out the top of his head. After looking
We had a man come to the mission the other day with a huge cut down his forehead… apparently he was sitting in his house when someone came in to rob him. He didn’t hear them come in, and they bashed him over the head. We don’t know if the robber(s) got away with anything.
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