“Now this IS a cute baby!”I told Anita. I am just washing the curly head of a new baby.    “You almost always say that,” she reminded me. Little cutie!     “Oh, I know.” I shrug and giggle. “Some just really are,” I excused myself. “And then some aren’t.” This is the […]

Sterilizing Normally you see these instruments in those bloody stitch job posts.  After a few weeks we accumulate quite of stack of dirty instruments, and then it’s time to dig out the sterilizer, roll up your sleeves and set to work.  (I have to say it’s one of those less favorite jobs.)   Here Rhoda and Megan

   This little boy came to us yesterday with all the signs of not receiving the proper nutrition.    He is around 7 months old, and he was on mothers milk for only the first month of his life, after that they had him on regular milk, which is not a good thing to do,

   This morning when Anita and Rhoda came to the clinic there was a gentleman waiting for them by the name of Christian Gabriel. Hmmmmm, don’t often hear that name.    What we could gather from his wife and those with him, he had fallen on Saturday night sometimes, details are few because no one

Who would have ever thought you could do this:  Fall off your horse, cut open your eye lid, slice your bottom lip, scrape up your top lip, AND, get this:  Disconnect your bottom lip from your gums/jaw inside.  You can see all the way down in between his lip and gums (you can’t see the

                                                                                                    Jistin’s Story Here is a sad story and I will try share it even though our hearts are hurting and feel very heavy for this little man.    Jistin, (Name given by Vicson, the caretaker.) is between 18 and 20 months old, this morning at 9:30 his dad came and rattled the clinic gate and

     Supper is just finished, and I’m thinking of spending a night with the other girls, when I hear Anita calling me to go with her to the clinic. Not thinking that anything much is up, I didn’t even grab a scrub top.    We saw a couple ladies, one in labor, and a

This young boy came in and could hardly swallow.  Under his chin was very swollen.  We put him on IV antibiotics and sent him home the next day doing much better. After delivering twins, this lady was carried into the clinic.  The one baby was born dead, and the other was doing fine.  We ended

 As I was greeted by this girl’s bright smile this morning, I resolved to share some happy faces with you all too!   She is the one that had a really bad infection in her foot, who we sent down to T-Goave for further treatment.  If you’ve been following the blog, you would have seen