Some normal cases on a normal day...

Anita had a burn patient come in yesterday and today.

As she cleaned the wound, the woman convulsed with pain and jumped almost out of her chair!

Anita used some lidocaine to ease the pain... "Otherwise," she said, "She's be in my lap!"

And Breanna dealt with a man who had an accident with his sepit (a garden tool, similar to a scythe) 

It was packed with dirt and mud, so it took some cleaning out...

Once Anita got the lidocaine onto the burn patient's wound she was able to clean and wrap it.

Breanna's patient got all bandaged up too. He'll be healed up in no time!

Update on the ear surgery!

There was a somewhat nasty post we did a little while ago in which we showed a lady who's ear had been almost completely cut off.

She returned for some other ailment day before yesterday, so we snapped some pictures of her ear- it's quite amazing, because if you didn't look for it, you probably wouldn't notice the scar. Anita did a fantastic job stitching it so there's virtually no evidence of the horrible injury!

Pretty amazing, 'eh?

I had to look twice to make sure it was the same lady!

Apparently she had some problem with her head and had come in for some medicine.

Anita used her visit as an opportunity to check on the ear.

We're so thankful for God's healing touch!

Update on Obenson!

Another update on our little malnourished friend, Obenson. 

His original story is here, if you don't remember him!

Doesn't he look so much healthier?

The little guy can walk around now and, according to his caregiver, if he's given nothing to do, he wanders around making "dezod" (naughty) around their compound! :) :)

Anita has been taking special care of him when he comes in.

Obenson is doing so well- he continues to gain weight and loose excess water caused by retention.

His caregiver comes once a week to get food supplements and he himself is brought around every 2-3 weeks. Praise the Lord for continuing improvement!

Thanks for praying for the little guy!!

Alcohol swabs and gloves... and other scenes from the clinic...

Since everyone got back from the States things have been moving along at a good pace in the clinic.

In recent days, it's been reported by our nurses that we're running low on alcohol patches and gloves... seeing that those needs are present, we thought we'd take some random pictures of us using alternatives...

Here's some medicine Anita was mixing up for one of our patients...

Since we have no more alcohol patches, Anita took to cutting up some material to be soaked in rubbing alcohol for a substitute.

She needed to go give her patient his medicine, so Breanna took over her cutting job.

Here, she is giving a man medicine for malaria.

Breanna, cutting up more patches...

Yes, it was another normal day at the clinic today. 

The amount of people seen totaled over 65.

That's not counting our normal patients, such as the "ankle guy" who we've been seeing each day, rewrapping his leg with fresh bandages each time.

Another interesting, yet typical case that came in... a ganglion cyst on a woman's hand.

Michael has become very proficient at removing the fluids inside the pockets.

This one took only about 15 seconds to remove.

Thankfully someone has sent down a few gloves that should tide us over until we get another donation of gloves from the States... It's amazing how many times throughout the day gloves are used though!

With pretty much each patient we handle, there's another pair of gloves used!

A typical scenario is seen in the above picture- 

the two little girls had sores on their legs, so gloves were used during the examination process. 

The little things...

Saturday some little girls come to the clinic, asking for some bandages for a few little sores on their shins. Breanna took them into the clinic, dressed their sores and applied some ointment to them, putting a bandaid on top.

I had to think about the many serious cases that come into the clinic, how they're often severe, life threatening, amazing or disgusting. We look at them as very important, but I wondered if, in the eyes of God, these "little things" are just as important. Jesus went about healing great and small, and the compassion He had extended to the lowliest of sicknesses. We take someone into the clinic, we show them God's love and they leave with knowing that they are cared about.

May we continue to show the love of Jesus to all here- small and great.

This young girl smiles as Breanna dressed a wound on her foot.

She kept flinching because of the pain, but kept up a good attitude :)

Only one left...

Yesterday was the beginning of a challenging week for many of us- since all the fluent Creole speakers are gone to the States for Thea's wedding, those of us left behind are having to learn quick!

Breanna is the only American nurse left in the clinic- it presents some unique challenges for her and was very "stretching"! Last morning though, she marched into clinic and announced (in Creole) to Noaz "Today, everyone must learn English!!" They all had a good laugh about that :)

She was busied with taking blood pressures, writing down information on people's dossiers. She also did the bandage patients.

Mid-morning an elderly man came into the clinic on a stretcher. Apparently he had a stroke and the Haitian nurses decided he had to go out to Ti Guave. After clinic was finished he was taken out to the hospital there. As far as we know, he's doing well. Sorry, no pictures were taken :-/

Please pray for us that remain here, that we would be able to hold the fort, that everything would go smoothly and that we would be able ministers of the Gospel!

Update on the "Clubfoot Boy"!

Greetings in Jesus' name, dear readers! Many apologies for the lack of content on this blog recently.

The other day some of us visited the home of the "Clubfoot" boy, Enddy. If you are having a hard time remembering him, take a look at his previous updates by typing "clubfoot" into the search box on the righthand side of your screen! The blogger will then show you the results in this pane.

The little guy is doing fantastic! He's walking, running, playing and getting into trouble around his house! His personality is just bursting with happiness and mischief :)