Hello to everyone reading this. Wow, what a crazy week we’ve just had. Last Sunday tropical storm Laura hit us. It rained Sunday morning harder than I’ve ever seen in my life. All three of our houses on the compound got water in them. Us guys house was the worst. We had water pouring in […]
Words don’t always come, so pictures will have to speak. Here is some of the moments that blessed me over the past couple months. While a soft rain was falling, and the sun rising; the roosters, and every morning creature, were filling the background air with their songs of praise. It all made me stop
“He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names. Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.”
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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
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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
