Just a shot of our head pharmacist at work! The man who had the rock injury on his head is doing very well! When he returned for his check-up, we were happy to see that the injury didn’t affect him mentally as it could have from the magnitude of the hit. The little girl who […]
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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
Uh-oh- another tumble!!! Not as serious as sometimes though;this one merely resulted in a small slice on the head of the young chap involved. The nurses decided it was a good idea to stitch it though, justto be on the safe side… Anita and Virginia Rudolph tackling the project…. He showed upjust after church on
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It was a bad night… We had gotten a late start, and wereleaving Ailegue to attempt hauling 16 batteries and a drumof diesel fuel up to Terre Rouge. Everyone was going alongup for supper, the road was muddy, we had to pull thedump truck with the gator just to get to the foot of JackRabbit…
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Apparently, a rock throwing incident caused this young gentleman to seekrefuge on the front porch. It wasn’t too serious, just a little bandage job. Andrew Klewin from WA is staying down here for a little over a month…He’s not here to work with the clinic, but does happen to be an EMTso he enjoys getting
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