Updates

Now for some updates. The hospital has mostly TB patients. It is a really good group. We had one dehydrated baby, and a set of twin boys who weigh 3.5lbs. I still have a still of my old friend in the hospital so that has been fun. I had quite the upset with Robenchly. One day his dad came, and he brought his two other kids that he had with with his other wife. He wanted Benette (Robenchlys mom) to watch the kids b/c their mom had died. So now she has a 6mo, 12mo, and two 4yrs. He left them to go work and spend time with his third woman. Also, we just sent them to the other hospital and the 12mo baby has HIV too. There are not words as to how upsetting this is for me. Fortunately he has not been back. Even more fortunately for him I don’t speak Creole well enough to say what I want to say to him. Last Tuesday we had a pregnant woman come in with a diabetic coma. Of course we don’t have insulin in Haiti. We gave her an NG tube and crushed up some oral diabetic medication. The baby had already died during the night, then the family decided to take the patient home to die, and she died on the way home. Once again could have been an easy fix if we had supplies. Then Sat. morning I helped AM deliver a baby. Afterwards the mom had a HA and we realized she had high BP. We gave her a shot c BP medicine and had her lie down. 12hrs later she had a seizure and went comatose. She is still in the hospital in the city, we don’t really know how she is doing. The pregnant ladies are giving us problems so keep us and them in your prayers!