Cow Trouble



Well the nurses are smiling. That's a good sign!



But this ISN'T such a good sign... The work of an angry bull, it gored
her with it's horn... Not very pretty looking, but not actually too serious.




            

                  This was the first of emergencies that night; she came in about 5 P.M...

 

...And wasn't finished until around 8; by then, the next emergency had arrived.
Quite a bit of dirt in there, took a while to clean out...

Stitching by flashlight... It's over-rated. :)

All neat and tidy now...





Mountainside tumble



I don't have any really great pics of this guy, it was hard to see what all
was wrong with him anyhow. The most noticeable thing was his right arm
which was broken, but he was also covered with numerous cuts and
tears; the results of falling down the mountainside and landing
on a boulder. Ouch!!!




They wrapped his broken arm up with casting cloth, so that when it
hardened it protected the arm from further movement and injury on
the way down the trail.



We don't set broken bones here at the clinic, so that was an automatic
trip out right there. We left at around 10:30 and arrived at the Ti Guave
hospital shortly after midnight. We were able to round up a doctor in
about half an hour, and by 2 A.M. were over at Darv and Jo's for a
nap before hitting the trail again. Turned out the man's arm had a
compound fracture...

Deformed Foot

This father came with his 10 year-old boy a few days back

wanting assistance from us to get help for his deformed foot.

We're hoping to be able to find a hospital

that will help him. As we understand, he's had this since birth.

Construction Accident

This gentleman was working on a house, a board fell off
the roof and did a very neat slice job both above AND
below his eye. Thank God for His design of protective
bone structure around your eyes; without that feature,
this man would have fared much worse!!!

Happy birthday 'Nita!!! She's supposed to be having a little party with
the girls right now, but instead she gets the opportunity to practice
some delicate stitch maneuvers.... Seems to be smiling at any rate...:)



Finished job. Looks very nice! Those stitches under the
eye were pretty challenging, but he came back a couple
days later and is looking good....



Club foot baby boy...

Hey here's our little club foot boy that you read about already- if you get
the mission's one-list updates. (If you don't, leave us a comment and we'll
get you the info on signing up...) I forgot to gather one VERY important
piece of info- the baby's name... :( I'll try to post that in a later update...

Ahhhhhh, cute l'il feller..............

This foot is definitely the worst, but there is a chance that the other
one may need some adjustment as well. Just briefly, the doctor we
found in Port-Au-Prince that will be helping him said that he will need
to come in every week for several months to change casts... Then
be in a splint on and off, possibly until he is 5. He goes for his
first cast on the 16th of February, so keep them in your prayers
that all would go well there....... We'll keep you updated.....

I didn't realize how many patients we see on our "off clinic days" till I started
snapping pictures of them!!! The nurses spent all morning at the clinic
delivering a baby boy (more pics later on that one- it was born with a
twisted foot), and Shana saw quite a line-up of minor cases on the porch.
Here is a foot injury caused by a sepit- a tool the Haitians use to
work in their gardens.

This gentleman appears quite cheerful in spite of the machete cut he
inflicted on himself this morning. He was pretty excited to see the
picture of himself too, just made his day....

"Pwa Congo....."

....Which is a type of bean commonly grown here in Haiti. Fortunately,
it ISN'T commonly found in little girls ears; this little girl being an
exception to that rule. "Mildren" arrived this afternoon in great pain
and even greater trepidation at the thought of nasty instruments
being placed in her ear. It took several people to hold her down
for the procedure, but once everything was in order, it was only
a matter of a few seconds for Anita to extract the offending bean
with a forceps. Just a word of advice, Mildren; be careful where
you put pwa congo after this.......... :)

A very tidy operation; a quick grab and pull and out it came...