Yesterday we said goodbye to Thea… She is going back to the States for a furlough. We will miss her terribly while she’s gone… at the Clinic, at the CTC, around the compound, during meals… she was always a willing helper, and a joy to be around. Lisa says by as Thea prepares to go… […]
Hello to all you faithful supporters! It has been a few days since we gave you an update, so it is high time to do so! Anita and Thea have been so busy with the CTC work recently, they have not spent much time at the Clinic. Today was a very busy day for the
Club foot baby update! Read More »
Sometimes one just has to stop and take in the beauty around them! A sweet little girl and her grateful mother–came with a gift of eggs for the nurses! Yes, my medicine book which gets used quite a bit! 🙂 A neighbor lady was sick last week so we trekked to her house 15-20 min
Here the little guy is all stitched up! Better be careful now! It was a back breaking job–getting the dirt out and, numbing him without exciting him too much and then stitching. Seeing it was that deep and to the bone I wanted to be extra careful to have it clean. There were little bits
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“Zaboka” is the Creole word for avocado, and this young man was way up in a tree picking this delicious fruit when he lost his footing and took the shortest path down! He ended up with this rather nasty memento of the event on his face; it was such a deep split, one could easily
We thought we’d give you a little taste of what it is like to do a stitching job… The other evening we had a man and his boy come to the fence; the boy had hit his head against a rock wall while playing, and had a bad gash in his forehead. The team got
Operation in the night… Read More »
Greetings from the water soaked mountainsides of Les Palmes! Praise the Lord, Hurricane Irene missed us by quite a distance. Though we are thankful that we evaded the full force of the storm, there is currently a battle going on with the consequent downpour of rain which accompanies hurricanes. Sometimes severe rain showers show up
Torrential Rains from Hurricane Irene and the Clinic Read More »
Yes, nurses do things other than being a nurse! Here we are having a Bible study with a couple of the local girls here on the porch. I know this is really gross, but the other day I was removing magets from this man’s leg. Virginia taking blood pressures at the clinic
Virginia, Thea, and I with the baby This was baby one of two births today–a lovely baby girl. We were hardly home when we got called again, but this time to the mountainside. Thea and I arrived just as the baby was being born. After doing what we had to do there, we got ready
Babies, babies–even on the mountainside!!!!! Read More »
Do you remember? I believe we had posted about this little boy back in Dec or so. This is how he was when he came into our clinic last year. We took them to a children’s hospital in Port au Prince. They were in Port from Dec till May or so. This was the first
Jacqueline–Amazing–before and after Read More »
