My week in review:
Sunday: Rob is back! Yippee!!
Monday: In the morning a medical team of 52 people came and stayed at our house until Thursday. Pro: medical and dental care for so many people. Con: Sharing my kitchen and most unpleasantly my bathroom with 52 people.
Monday PM: I had to tell one of our patients, 30yo young man, who had been shot randomly with a bullet that went thru his arm, into his chest and struck his spinal cord, that he will never walk again. I sat with him for an hour as he cried and told me he wanted to die. Its hard enough to earn money in Haiti but when you can't walk, and you have a small family what can you do?
Tuesday: A pediatrician from the team saw our 1.85kg baby and told us she has Trisomy 18, and will not survive. We then had to tell the mother, and it was really sad. It was difficult for us because the MD said she has 95% chance of dying but maybe we could NG tube feed her for a year. But we are not equipped to do that here, she would have to live with us, use so many supplies, at some point need a feeding tube put in her stomach and still probably die. It was a heartbreaking decision to send her home.
Wednesday: I went to give Erebendi his afternoon milk and he was holding his arms and breathing hard. The mother said he is not good and that he has let go. We loaded him up on antibiotics, and pain medicine. About 2hrs later he seemed better, he was wanting to drink water. We went home to eat dinner and got called to the hospital with the news he had died. I can't put into words how I feel about that.
Thursday: We also found out Wednesday that one of our TB patients and his wife have HIV. We told them Thursday morning.
Friday PM: Ryna came into the room and announced to me that their was a spider IN my bed. This spider was the size of a big chocolate chip cookie. Bigger than a Reeses Peanut Butter cup (Its been a hard week I have chocolate on the brain!) So I flung him out of my bed and killed him! But what a way to end the week! I mean seriously!
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