A Wild Day

Today was an interesting and busy day. We saw about 600 patients. We started off the morning with the police carrying in a man who was shot in the butt and the bullet went all the way through. The bullet missed his femur and no major arteries were hit. Then American soldiers showed up to say hi with a horde of Hatians following. NBC showed up to film and interview us, CNN came yesterday, you can look for me on the news. Our volunteers that are helping us translate and regulate people traffic started asking for medicines for themselves and sneaking medicine to people, we nipped that quickly. It was ineresting to say the least.




Post-Op



Surgical Ward
We are still seeing patients that were yet to get medical treatment since the earthquake. One 19 year old girl came in with a broken foot, we had to send her to the hospital because it had already began healing in the wrong place. We are also seeing a lot of people with skin allergies because the water they are using to wash themselves is dirty gutter/basin water. We don't have any skin cream for it. We've been administering a lot of anti-parasite medication. Im finding that many children and teenagers are coming in with stomach pain, not sleeping at night, and have no appetite. After asking the regular questions I've found that these symptoms are from post traumatic stress. There is no medicine we have for that, so I've been praying with most of them. Jesus is the ultimate comforter who will be with them even in the night.






This evening I am staying at an orphanage. I was able to play with some of the orphans with developmental disabilities. A little boy named Samuel with a really, really big head(literally) introduced me to all of his friends and taught me some French and how to properly pronounce names. They are well taken care of. They have also been running a clinic and a team from Bethel church (where I go to school) were there working. It is such a small world to meet people you know from other parts of the world in a place like Haiti. It has been amazing to see how unified the doctors and aid workers are in just helping the people of Haiti.

Keep praying for supplies and people to get to where it is most needed. Also keep praying for the people of Haiti as PTSD starts to set in.





Thanks for all your prayers!
Love,
Janet

Location:Port au Prince, Haiti