I close my eyes and I see tiny orange-haired-big-smiled children.I fall asleep and I dream about that late-night-adrenaline-pumping emergency run. I day-dream of eating a gallon of chocolate ice cream, right out of the bucket (because ice cream fixes everything, right?), and then, on furlough have the opportunity to actually do this, I hop out

  In comes another pregnant lady with complications, head injurys or some for sickness we can’t treat and needs to be sent off to town, so we bump out the trail one more time, some days feeling quite worn out and like we can’t go on any longer and then getting called down to clinic

It’s the beautiful…and the ugly.  The first newborn cry…and holding the hand of the dying elderly.  The miracles…and the willingness to accept death and the fact that medicine can’t always prevent it.  It’s swinging and playing games with the neighbor kids…and giving the malnourished  kid with negligent parents some life saving plummy-nut.  It’s cuddling and

   Take the time to care, no matter who you are or how busy you are, we should never be too busy to sit and listen to a friend who may be hurting, or just longs to talk with someone who cares.   People notice when you take time for them and I believe it

I stepped into the loud crowd that came rushing into the waiting area. I knelt down over the cot on the ground and pulled the plastic down to expose her face. I resisted the urge to vomit and covered her face back up while I grabbed my stethoscope to see if I could hear a

You’re in the middle of a medical emergency. Heart pounding, adrenaline pumping, and hands trembling. (If you’re me🙄) Your mind runs through all the possibilities and you’re doing the best you know to do. Without making any mistakes. In the middle of it all, your patient grabs your bloody hand and says, “please mis, pray

 Hey everyone it’s been awhile since I’ve posted and a lot has happened! It seems I should have no problem thinking up something interesting to tell you all but I find it kind of hard to put things into words 🙈  So here we go it was last Saturday we where in Peiti-Goave at a

Well, hello!:) It’s been a long time since you’ve heard from me- back in February I do believe, but somehow that doesn’t seem that long ago! I thought I would share a happening from the beginning of this month that I still remember very well. On July 3rd we had a woman in labor at