The roosters are still alive and well----and crowing----! In case you wonder why there are so many rodnts here, we can tell you. It's because they eat cats. They say they are good! Have we eaten any??? Thought we'd check and see how much it would cost to ship some from our house to Haiti!!
We mostly helped Linda in PT today---in her words; "pain and torture". We nurses are preparing to do a "class/inservice" about diabetes..........mostly what the Haitian nurses can teach their patients/friends and family about caring for people with diabetes.
Our gunshot patient looked wonderful this morning. Sitting up and smiling .......... that changed this afternoon as he was having a lot of pain and was quite restless. Certainly he is not out of the woods, yet. It is a miracle that he is doing as well as he is.
Steve and Kenny have been investigating the water supply (and the sporadic lackof it) They discovered that some of it is being "diverted". Hm-m-m-----interesting situation.
There is only one patient in the cholera unit, now. All the rest were well enough to go home. When we asked one of the nurses there what they are going to do now, she replied "there will be more!"
Paula, Don and Ada went for a walk to visit Jimmy's house again. He again got his "bee smoker" out and cut us off a chunk of honeycomb to eat. What an example of hospitality! We took beanie babies and matchbox cars and hair "stuff" along with us.................didn't take long to get rid of them. Kids come from EVERYWHERE!! Dave and Katherine are walking now in the opposite direction and they are armed with cars and pencils and more hair stuff.
Dave and Katherine and Don and Ada will be touring LSM tomorrow while the rest of the group stay at Bonne Fin.
There is another group who are doing construction and a health clinic in an area about 30min away who will be sleeping in one of the houses on this compound for the next week. They are a group of about 14 and will have only one toilet and one shower! We are staying in the Hilton in comparison!! They will be eating some of their meals at the guest house with us. That will mean that Mona is cooking for about 27 people. We have no doubt she is up to the challenge. She feeds us very well!!
Sheila took us to the warehouse on the compound today to look for some needed supplies. Linda found some crutches to send home with an elderly amputee. He and his wife were so happy to get them. The warehouse is amazing! The folks working there have it amazingly well organized and clean!
The weather the last couple of days is sunny and wonderful!
Don and Ada
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