Sara's Journey

Wednesday July 29th. I need to clarify, there is a medical reason that I cut the man’s testicle off. Someone actually questioned if there was a reason why I did it. Everyone should know that we are here to help people, and not torture people or do things for fun. Ok moving on. I spent last Thursday treating the Americans who are here. Kaitlyn who is one of the girls who came for the month had a small abscess in her armpit which I tried to pop. Then there were two guys here for the summer helping another missionary and one of them had a blister in between his toes that was infected. So I spent about 2hrs trying to get all the pus out. Then every night after that I had to work on Kaitlyn’s abscess and check on his foot. I can’t escape work here, fortunately/disturbingly we had a lot of fun doing it. The girls left this morning and we had a new group come yesterday afternoon from Louisiana. The baby had a good week. She is precious and cries like a normal baby every few hours, which I appreciate. The cow also had a good week, she is getting big and is now tied up so she can’t hurt me anymore. Unfortunately, one of the dogs had a bad week, he was bit and his wound had maggots growing in it. So I spent some time this afternoon picking about 30maggots out. I am so not a vet, and hope to never have to do that again. It’s the closest I have come to throwing up in Haiti.