Monday, October 29, 2007
October 29,2007
Dear Friends,
It has been a great couple of days. This past weekend I went to Terrier Rouge. There was a team from Maine there that I joined up with. Haiti has tugged at many Maine hearts.
Laura and I worked at the clinic with the new Doctor. We saw around 40 patients. We had one young girl who was from Fayette Baptist church excited about working at hte clinic. She has a desire to be a midwive and do missions work. She bought a doppler on Ebay and had a chance to use it on 2 of the pregnant ladies we saw.
Church was awesome as usual. Sunday evening I had a chance to go to Justinian Hospital. Laura and I job shadowed a nurse we met Yanick. We worked in the emergency department. I cannot put in words what we saw. It was very difficult and we felt it was all a bad dream. There was a small 10 year old boy who was hit by a car. He was a street kid. He ended up having a fractured femur. This was determined only from only observing and assessing. The hospital has not had an x-ray machine for a 5 years. There is 800,000 people in this city and this is the only hospital. Every nurse and intern came up to us and would share that there are no supplies, equipment or materials. We saw quite a few sick patients. I will share more later. It is very hard to find the words.
Today it rain very hard and the wind was strong. We did not go to the clinic today. We stayed home and worked at the house. We fixed wound boxes for the clinics. We cleaned out the pharmacy and went thru all the supplies and medications people have sent down. Ms. Pats house in on the ocean and the salt and dirt from the road gets all over things. It is very difficult to keep things clean.
We heard about the tropical storm that is coming. So far we are ok. We are praying the storm will pass.
I have 9 more days here. It has gone fast. It is hard sometimes because I miss Luke and the kids.
Please pray for Haiti. The clinics and the staff. Also we lost one of our dogs here today. It got hit by a car. It was so sad. This country can be harsh. Love you all. Thanks for your prayers.
It has been a great couple of days. This past weekend I went to Terrier Rouge. There was a team from Maine there that I joined up with. Haiti has tugged at many Maine hearts.
Laura and I worked at the clinic with the new Doctor. We saw around 40 patients. We had one young girl who was from Fayette Baptist church excited about working at hte clinic. She has a desire to be a midwive and do missions work. She bought a doppler on Ebay and had a chance to use it on 2 of the pregnant ladies we saw.
Church was awesome as usual. Sunday evening I had a chance to go to Justinian Hospital. Laura and I job shadowed a nurse we met Yanick. We worked in the emergency department. I cannot put in words what we saw. It was very difficult and we felt it was all a bad dream. There was a small 10 year old boy who was hit by a car. He was a street kid. He ended up having a fractured femur. This was determined only from only observing and assessing. The hospital has not had an x-ray machine for a 5 years. There is 800,000 people in this city and this is the only hospital. Every nurse and intern came up to us and would share that there are no supplies, equipment or materials. We saw quite a few sick patients. I will share more later. It is very hard to find the words.
Today it rain very hard and the wind was strong. We did not go to the clinic today. We stayed home and worked at the house. We fixed wound boxes for the clinics. We cleaned out the pharmacy and went thru all the supplies and medications people have sent down. Ms. Pats house in on the ocean and the salt and dirt from the road gets all over things. It is very difficult to keep things clean.
We heard about the tropical storm that is coming. So far we are ok. We are praying the storm will pass.
I have 9 more days here. It has gone fast. It is hard sometimes because I miss Luke and the kids.
Please pray for Haiti. The clinics and the staff. Also we lost one of our dogs here today. It got hit by a car. It was so sad. This country can be harsh. Love you all. Thanks for your prayers.
# posted by Pam and Luke @ 6:32 PM 
