Well it certainly feels like I haven’t written anything in a long time, that’s why I want to say hi to everybody again.   It’s been quite the long hard battle for me the last week or so again coming down with and pulling through with another virus, It did feel as if there is nothing that […]

   Maladies, more maladies, and more maladies! Blood pressures, pulses, and temperatures! Meds, meds, and more meds! And today, nurses who were giving out and prescribing meds were the ones that needed meds! And all the hospital beds are full, so no more maladies please!    Last week there was one day where the hospital

     I had just arrived at the clinic for my after noon on call Wednesday, when a something knocked on the door. Or someone. I went to check which.  Two very tired ladies looked up at me as I exited the building. One of them was pregnant, and so I told them she could come inside. After

   A team of surgeons and nurses flew in from the US this past week, to do around 40 hernia surgeries, at the Lacolline, hospital about an hour south west of Ti- Goave, we had 5 patients from Allegre that need the surgery to, so Steve and I took them out there on Wednesday, only

   This young boy came in early in the morning, one of the first patients, he was heading to school and somehow slipped and fell, who knows where and how far and we’ll never figure out either, but anyway the result of the fall was a clean cut about 5 inches behind his wrist. Anita

Yes, I know that’s a scary word. . .  But as near as I can tell, that is what one of our patients has at the clinic right now. Here is one of two spots on his skin He first came in on Fri, and we started him on treatment.  Today he still wasn’t doing

Gentle and sweet Godly Man, such a pleasureto have him around at the clinic. He smileradiates the love of God.   “Let me see, is that everything?” Anita picks up her water bottle and prepares to leave the clinic. I glance at the people sitting in the hospital room. Let me see, Batel shouldn’t be

   Sunday afternoons are supposed to be relaxing and stress free…? This was not to be the case, though, on this particular Sunday afternoon. We had just finished lunch and the dishes when there was a knock at the door. Our gate guard came to tell us that there was a boy at the clinic

      When I first came here to Haiti, I had no clue about what to expect! I knew nothing about life in a third world country, nothing about the work in a clinic, and nothing about the Haitian people and their culture. All I knew was that I was coming to lend whatever help

    The sun was shining beautifully this morning as I finished my big mug of coffee and headed to clinic to start on my usual row of bandage patients. I love the cheerful banter of morning greetings… the glow of the sun on the mountain after the rain… the beautiful smiles of the children along the trail.