The last week has been a little wild. I can barely remember what happened. Two of the nurses at the clinic have not been working, Miss Fofo just had a baby who on Thursday was hospitalized b/c she has a respiratory infection. Also, last weekend Miss Tonie had an episode of high BP, and was having a hard time seeing. She went to the hospital and then when that did not work she unfortunately went to the house of a witch doctor which is where she is now. I was supposed to leave Haiti on Monday, and AM and Rob where going to go on vacation yesterday. AM and Rob where going to cancel there vacation b/c one nurse cannot run the clinic, so I decided to stay another week and help out. So now I am leaving on Sat. August 15th. It was a busy week, on Tuesday the group left, and then in the afternoon Jeb, who is fun, gentle giant came to visit. It was nice to have an encouraging visitor. Wednesday, I performed a hydrocele(testicle filled with water) operation. For some reason I thought I would be a very clean surgeon, and did not put scrubs on. I ended up getting sprayed with the water in the man's testicle, it was not ideal! Then I had to work on a three yo boy who had a wound in his mouth above his front teeth, in his gums. He had a cut and somehow he got maggots in it. So I had the most disgusting task of removing five huge maggots. I would like to take back a previous statement that removing the worms from the dog was the closest I came to vomiting it definitely is now removing maggots from the boy's mouth. Then Thursday, I had to remove the worms from the dog again. AM left yesterday, so once again I am MD on call. So keep me in your prayers, I am feeding the cow 4x a day, plus giving the kids milk and seeing patients. The saving grace is that AM took little Sandra so I can sleep through the night, but I do miss my little peanut! Anyway, keep the clinic, nurses, and me in your prayers!
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