"Our final full work day at the clinic..."

Today we concluded our final "official" work day at the clinic...we had another productive day as far as the volume of patients that were able to be seen...

I was thinking back about some of the people that we treated today and and in the past few days...a few that stand out to me...a 15 yr. old young man came in today and had a skin problem that I can best describe as "seriously painful" to even look at....it covered both of his legs and and arms and looked like the worst case of "enfentigo"(sp) gone bad...he looked so miserable and yet sat through all the poking and jabbing with such a peaceful spirit...I pray that God will touch his body and rid him of this painful condition quickly.....


Another one that comes to mind was 70 yr. old lady that tested positive for T.B. She still has additional testing that she needs done at a local clinic closer to Port Au Prince that may be able to change that diagnosis, however it was so difficult to just have to notify her of the positive preliminary test results...(and even in that, she just took it in stride and was trying to figure out how she could get to the clinic....what a warm spirited woman...)


Finally on a lighter side....a patient we had yesterday came in with a deep laceration on his hand due to a piece of ceramic tile slicing it....our translator, Bianca was asking about the injury and the young man said it was "not so bad"....so according to Bianca, Haitian' tend to "embellish" their stories a little...so when he said it wasn't so bad, she assumed that it was a "very minor" cut that had this big bundle of gauze wrapped around it....well, when we took the bandage off and the cut was about 2" long and layed open with some of the "meat" sticking out a little...."SHE FREAKED"....it was so funny! She kept looking at it like it would somehow attack her...Deb and I couldn't stop laughing.....She kept saying, "it' not suppose to be that bad...it' not suppose to be that bad!...." Her youthful innocence was such a refreshment for us.... :)

In addition, I wanted to share a few other photos of some of the inner actions inside the clinic....




Oh yeah, Matthew and I made our third consecutive trip walking from the clinic back to the house...it was a killer, but we survived... :)