10/18/07
Hey all!!! Thank you for showing your support by checking out what and how your friends, family... and maybe even strangers in your life are doing in Haiti.
First off, the team is healthy! Everyone is doing well. I'll introduce them to you in a moment. Before I do that I should communicate that we have made some scheduling changes, and will be heading to Grand Goave early. We look forward to seeing Marc and Lisa Honorat at HaitiARISE Ministries tomorrow.
Here is our team from Cranbrook Community eating lunch at MTM yesterday:
From left to right we have Doc Chuck, Michelle, Rachel, Kaye, Danielle, and Doc Bob. Danielle was already in Haiti, and met up with us at the airport in Port-au-Prince. You'll have to look up my mug shot on the staff page of the HFL website for now.
Here are some shots of the first day of clinic we had in Gramothe. Doc Bob, Kaye, and Rachel did a great job of stitching up this young man's head. Of course everyone is thinking... how did that happen? (The cut of course... not the great job) Answer: In Haiti there are a lot of dump trucks... but few backhoes or loaders. Typically dump trucks are filled by laborers such as our friend below. This young man was filling a truck with large rocks; one rock was rejected by the truck (bounced off the rim of the box), and he ended up needing stitches:
Doc Chuck used his inventive skills to fashion a back brace into a neck brace for this young man who has a pulled tendon in his neck.
Rachel with patient (baby) and mom. There were quite a few babies with really bad cases of scabies... Kaye, Rachel, and Michelle took care of giving them Lindane baths... (don't email me to ask me what Lindane is cause I don't know... I just know it's what you do)
Here is Michelle and Danielle having a pause and a laugh inbetween filling prescriptions in the pharmacy with Micah, one of our translators.
Well... it's time for me to go to bed again... hope this has given you a snapshot of our first day of medical clinics in Haiti. Tomorrow will be a day of travel to Grand Goave. Keep checking back for updates... next one will probably be in a couple days after we've arrived and settled in at HaitiARISE. Please check out their website in the meantime in the links section of this page.
Paul DenHaan
HFL Team Leader
3 Comments:
Hey Bro-haw!
It's good to hear that you're doing well. I'm so glad you're out and about again...it's good for you 'cause you love it so much.
Meanwhile, I'm in the middle of papers and midterms. I'm officially the jr. girls leader and it sounds like I'm going to have a pretty free reign to do what I want. It'll be good.
I'm going to move in the direction of a Religious Studies Major and see where that takes me. I just love my RELS classes so much; I get so excited and fascinated about them! So, that's step one. Well, not really. By now that's step 15 or so. Anyway, I'm out. Have a good one!
Hello All
Just want to send a hello and let you all know we are thinking of you!
Big hugs for Michelle and keep up the good work, we are proud of you!
Hope to hear from you all soon. Thanks Paul for doing the blog nice to see everyones smiling faces.
Hope Michelle is taking lots of pics.
Bye for now
BevNation
Hi you! Thanks for the pictures...they are fun to look at....don't worry, I read the written parts too ;). Wow, all I can think is: small team, but HUGE impactful blessing. Praying for you. So excited for you. Keep it up and lead on! Lots of love, Marie.
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