Saturday - September 10th
We have seen a miracle today, and her name is Twilla.
She is the nurse practitioner who runs things. It has been an amazing day. We got up at 6:00 am and had a wonderful breakfast and were packed up and ready to go at our departure time at 8:00 am. An hour and a half later we are still waiting for the truck that is taking us to the clinic to get fixed. The Eternal Hope In Haiti Foundation owns it. It is 30 years old At 9:30 the truck is fixed. We all pile in the back onto wooden seats and off we go - for 5 feet. The mechanic is called back. 19 minutes later, bad news. The truck cannot soon be fixed. So a taxi is called and in 15 minutes we all pile in.
There are 7 of us plus the driver in a very small sedan. Fortunately, it is not far to the clinic for today.
It is in the city down by a bay-full of filth and rotting boats, pigs rooting in the garbage beside the road. We set up in the upstairs of a concrete building that is a church. We have 2 medium sized rooms.
In one room the nurse practitioners see the patients and Jane Carney sets up a small table for her pharmacy.
In the other room there are two small benches. On one, Janie (my sister from D.C.) sits and bags up rice and beans. We give this to the mothers with malnourished children and the elderly, who are all emaciated. On the other bench, I sat and gave scabies treatments to the children and put clean underwear on them. To all who gave underwear to us, it was put to good use today!
Barb Kell and Hetty Herrington from our church saw patient after patient.
Late in the afternoon, Twilla asked me to go downstairs and go through the line of people there and bring up only the sickest, as we would have to go soon. It was so hard.
I brought a young mother who seemed to have a fever.
And a boy of ten with infected eyes.
And a teenaged girl with an obvious skin infection on her face.
We gave what we could to the mothers that we had to turn away - often, a worm pill and a small bag of vitamins for the child. We are all changed forever.
The light is dim, the monitor faint, and I am very tired. We love our church family for all the help they have sent here, money, underwear, etc. As well as all the prayers. I know we could not have done what we did today without them. I felt them all day long. God bless you all,
Susan Jones
She is the nurse practitioner who runs things. It has been an amazing day. We got up at 6:00 am and had a wonderful breakfast and were packed up and ready to go at our departure time at 8:00 am. An hour and a half later we are still waiting for the truck that is taking us to the clinic to get fixed. The Eternal Hope In Haiti Foundation owns it. It is 30 years old At 9:30 the truck is fixed. We all pile in the back onto wooden seats and off we go - for 5 feet. The mechanic is called back. 19 minutes later, bad news. The truck cannot soon be fixed. So a taxi is called and in 15 minutes we all pile in.
There are 7 of us plus the driver in a very small sedan. Fortunately, it is not far to the clinic for today.
It is in the city down by a bay-full of filth and rotting boats, pigs rooting in the garbage beside the road. We set up in the upstairs of a concrete building that is a church. We have 2 medium sized rooms.
In one room the nurse practitioners see the patients and Jane Carney sets up a small table for her pharmacy.
In the other room there are two small benches. On one, Janie (my sister from D.C.) sits and bags up rice and beans. We give this to the mothers with malnourished children and the elderly, who are all emaciated. On the other bench, I sat and gave scabies treatments to the children and put clean underwear on them. To all who gave underwear to us, it was put to good use today!
Barb Kell and Hetty Herrington from our church saw patient after patient.
Late in the afternoon, Twilla asked me to go downstairs and go through the line of people there and bring up only the sickest, as we would have to go soon. It was so hard.
I brought a young mother who seemed to have a fever.
And a boy of ten with infected eyes.
And a teenaged girl with an obvious skin infection on her face.
We gave what we could to the mothers that we had to turn away - often, a worm pill and a small bag of vitamins for the child. We are all changed forever.
The light is dim, the monitor faint, and I am very tired. We love our church family for all the help they have sent here, money, underwear, etc. As well as all the prayers. I know we could not have done what we did today without them. I felt them all day long. God bless you all,
Susan Jones
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