I don’t have any really great pics of this guy, it was hard to see what allwas wrong with him anyhow. The most noticeable thing was his right armwhich was broken, but he was also covered with numerous cuts and tears; the results of falling down the mountainside and landingon a boulder. Ouch!!! […]
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This father came with his 10 year-old boy a few days back wanting assistance from us to get help for his deformed foot. We’re hoping to be able to find a hospital that will help him. As we understand, he’s had this since birth.
This gentleman was working on a house, a board fell offthe roof and did a very neat slice job both above AND below his eye. Thank God for His design of protective bone structure around your eyes; without that feature, this man would have fared much worse!!! Happy birthday ‘Nita!!! She’s supposed to be having
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Hey here’s our little club foot boy that you read about already- if you getthe mission’s one-list updates. (If you don’t, leave us a comment and we’ll get you the info on signing up…) I forgot to gather one VERY importantpiece of info- the baby’s name… 🙁 I’ll try to post that in a later
Club foot baby boy… Read More »
….Which is a type of bean commonly grown here in Haiti. Fortunately,it ISN’T commonly found in little girls ears; this little girl being an exception to that rule. “Mildren” arrived this afternoon in great painand even greater trepidation at the thought of nasty instrumentsbeing placed in her ear. It took several people to hold her
This gentleman showed up on our front porch thismorning; seems he’d had a bit of a run in with a knife… A very nice clean cut… Several stitches later, and he’s on his way. It wasn’t all the waythrough to his mouth, so it shouldn’t really be too serious…
Amy treating an elderly lady… Practicing an I.V. on Anita… Kayla, ready for action… Anita and Kayla puzzling over their dictionary…“How DO we explain this one in Creole???” Just the ordinary daily clinic stuff… For every emergency case that getstalked about, of course there are many many of the usual unromantic small jobs,
Anita and her girls… Read More »
Yes, sometimes nurses have to work on Christmas… Just changed our little head trauma boy’s dressing today, and he is doing great!!! Thanksfor your prayers, we couldn’t have asked for a cleaner healing…
Hey our little patient is looking a little better here, isn’t he? Really he seems to be doing extraordinarily well for how hard he tumbled; yesterday he had a lot of swelling on his face, but that has gone down today and he headed for home on his own two feet. Thank God forHis mercy
