And then it was Thursday

It is 5pm  Thursday, we are relaxing with a Prestige or cola, after our walk  around Leogane. Our day back in Jasmin yesterday was very busy. We thought we saw 250 people, so that would mean a total of 800 people over three days; however, when we counted the remaining medical record forms today, it seems we saw about 930 people. It's another Haiti mystery. Suffice it to say, that we had 3 very busy days of clinics.

 

Our patients on Wednesday walk as far as 4 hours one way to get to us. That means that our afternoons are usually busier than our mornings. We started off with an emergency. A woman had walked 2 hours to get to us, and was experiencing a racing heart so that she was very panicked when she got to us. The docs and nurses got to work and discovered that her blood sugar was quite high. We provided her with Metformin, which she took  with several glasses of water, rested awhile, and then she  headed back up the mountain.

We had two sets of twins come see Dr. Dianne yesterday. One set was 8 week old boys and the other set was 8 months old boy and girl. All were healthy and so darn cute!

Jeanne, Russ, and I  visited  our school before we got started  in the morning. The 9th grade has about 20 students, who were in their English  class when we were there. They  meet out on the porch since all the other classrooms are full.

We have about 500 students this year and they are bursting at the seams!

Our principal Jeanell Joseph and his sister who is one of the pre-school teachers with her two girls.

 

 

I may have found a possible way for the Nicholas community, and possibly others,  to make money. We saw two teenagers and some toddlers wearing very cute crocheted skirts. I asked one of the girls who had made her skirt and it turns out she had made it. So, with the help of our translator Peterson, I asked if she would make ten for me to buy when we return. She agreed. So, we will see if that happens. If it does, I think I can sell them easily and use the profit for  our clinics.

We had quite the ride home. We had only two vehicles - the Landcruiser and a pickup truck, for 22 people  and all our suitcases.

Today, Dianne went back to the St.. P and St. J school  so that she could interview a teacher for a Diocese mission project, and to see the students and the LaBordes. The rest  of us worked inventorying and organizing our left over meds and supplies. We are not quite finished, so we will have to finish  that up after dinner tonight.

This afternoon, we walked to Children's Nutrition Program so that we could talk with the director about the best way to buy meds in Haiti.. Then, we walked to the Episcopal Nursing School where Dean Hilda proudly showed us the new additions to the school, as well as her new guesthouse. All are absolutely beautiful! The new guesthouse will give HSC some competition from the teams. We stayed too long at the Nursing School and everyone was pooped, so Hilda had one of her drivers take us back to the guesthouse in one of the  school's vans.

FSIL Episcopal Nursing School Dean Hilda Alcindor and her new conference room.

And the new guesthouse

Tomorrow we are off to Jacmel with Zo Cherry as our driver, as usual. We expect to go to Hotel Cyvadier for swimming at the beach and a nice lunch.