It was a bad night… We had gotten a late start, and wereleaving Ailegue to attempt hauling 16 batteries and a drumof diesel fuel up to Terre Rouge. Everyone was going alongup for supper, the road was muddy, we had to pull thedump truck with the gator just to get to the foot of JackRabbit… […]
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Well, I know I just wrote, but I said we had a lady in labor at the clinic on the last post. . . It rained and rained last night so when we went to head down to check on her, we put our rain coats on. It was a wet muddy walk. Ready to
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I couldn’t resist showing you all another one of the babies born at clinic. After a few very traumatic births recently, we were very happy when the last baby was born vigorous and crying! We actually have a lady in labor at the clinic now so we might not get a lot of sleep tonight.
Apparently, a rock throwing incident caused this young gentleman to seekrefuge on the front porch. It wasn’t too serious, just a little bandage job. Andrew Klewin from WA is staying down here for a little over a month…He’s not here to work with the clinic, but does happen to be an EMTso he enjoys getting
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Left to right: Father, 12 year-old brother, mother, assistant holding baby. This is the second of 2 births this week at clinic. In this picture they are almost ready to head for home. This lady came in around 6:30 or so in the morning. When we went down a little before clinic time, we decided
This young gentleman had a problem with gravity; apparentlygravity won. 🙁 You guessed it- he fell out of the garden. The nurses had a hard time telling exactly what was wrong with his arm;there was obviously something not right, but they weren’t sure whetherit was out of joint or broken. So we took him out
Here’s Thea with a stitch job she did this week. This young teenage girl had managed to slice her wrist open during a tumble-mishapshe experienced on her way home from school. Careful stitching pays off in a reduced chance ofinfection, and less scarring…. Thea’s doing a great job and picking up some good experience here!
This little guy spent several days in a hospital room; unfortunately I didn’t get any pics of HIM-only this nasty looking foot… He came in with a respiratory problem, and this badly infected foot. After treating him for several days, it seemed that his oxygen level had improved,but he still breathed with some difficulty. We
Uh-oh- surely not the old “rock in the ear” trick again!?Unfortunately, yes it is. But thankfully for little Daniel, it wasn’t in there too deeply; (although you would have been CERTAINthat it was looking grim for the little chap, judgingfrom the hearty opinions he expressed during thestone-removal operation….. 🙂 A real community effort! Shana’s running
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This 9 year old little girl came in on Wednesday afternoon at around 3…The story we were told was that she had fallen down the mountain a littleways, then falling rocks had slammed into her head. The evidence wascertainly there- several severe gashes on the top and back of her head, along with various scrapes
Mountainside tumble III ! Read More »
