Bon' Apeti

Another great day in clinic. We saw over 100 patients. Thank you to all who have donated dresses, tooth brushes the thousands of breakfast bars ( Aunt Kathy and Gretchen), baby blanket, homemade baby toys, cash donations for medications. We also had donations that were spent on crafts for our vacation bible school, beach balls, and every person who came on to Three Angels compound received an cross necklace. We received craft bracelets kits from Linda's bible study group for VBS and homemade baby kozies of fleece and textured ribbons from Cynthia's Hearts & Hands group. We also received hundreds of homemade goodie bags for medications which were made by Jan Barto. We were also given dresses from the Suzanna Stitchers from Christ United Methodist church in Jackson Mississippi. Thanks to Quad Sil for their donations of hand sanitiszer and to the Appothacary Shop for their medication donation. This trip was blessed with all of your donations.

Our Haitian lunch prepared by the nannies was wonderful...we had black beans and rice, sauce tomate. They were so proud and we were so thankful.

One man came to the clinic and requested to say hello to Cydney, Jack and Lynda and to thank them again for performing his hernia surgery last July. Cynthia did a happy dance when her dehydrated baby came back with 1 1/2 pounds weight gain after 3 days. One of Nancy's patients was sent to the University of Miami field hospital because of a very large right thigh mass. There were lots of worms, heart burn, scabies, and lots of lumps and bumps.

Today I was able to go into St Joseph's. This is the orphanage where George grew up. Bill greeted Nancy and I and took us on a tour. There were many people working very hard cleaning up one of the levels. What devastation and sadness. The boys there are still afraid to sleep inside the house so they have several tents set up out in open areas. They have purchased a house next door and it will be a wonder guest house/boy's home when the building is complete.

Tomorrow will be our last day in clinic. We will give out 60 tickets and see how many patients we will end up with. When we are done in clinic we are going on an adventure to a Haitian McDonalds- "The Epidor". We will do our final packing and say our final goodbyes. My though that always goes through my mind is "When can I come back?"