Thursday, July 24, 2014

Haiti [Part III]

Hello friends,

Finally I find the time to sit and write my final post from my time in Haiti. It's been over a week since I'm home now -- and wow -- sometimes Haiti feels so long ago! My joint pain from the Chikungunya virus remains -- although it continues to get better. This week my joints had been hurting less and less, but I've been taking it easy. Last night I played volleyball for a little -- and really am paying for it now -- as my joints have been hurting a lot worse again. So I guess I just need to avoid too much exercise until the virus is gone gone GONE!

And now, for some pictures from my last days and weeks in Haiti . . .

Church service Sunday morning 
-- the only church in Lasource --


A girl at the clinic on prenatal day . . . 
We discovered that day that she's pregnant with twins!


A small girl less than 24 hours old.
She got really sick soon after birth and was sick for over a week.
We went daily to see her.



Waiting for the clinic to start . . .


A young boy being measured to see if he can go on the malnutrition program.


Visiting the children at the orphanage.



Lasource.


One of the exam rooms in the clinic . . .


A funeral . . .


A TB patient . . .


Becca :-)


Visiting a clinic worker and his family.


Doing a dressing change.



Learning to play their version of jacks :-)


An immunization post in a nearby village.






Bananas!



Coconuts.


The tombs in Lasource.


Volleyball :-)



I was able to be at the birth of this baby!
Kristina Maya.


Adeline, the baby's mom, is a nurse at the clinic . . .



My lovely friend, Adeline.


Visiting the sick baby . . . 




Goodbyes . . .


Bethanie . . .
The girl I worked with in the clinic for my month in Haiti.
She is . . . amazing!


One last meal with the staff in the cook-shack before I left . . .


And that, my friends, concludes my trip to Haiti!


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