Mondasy night. had homemade Mac 'n Cheese for supper (haitian style_ really good)
Clinic today , pretty busy. Lots of kids. What I was worried about is happening. All the crud we had last week and now there are coming in with clinical pneumonias...No X-rays---too pricey & very poor quality anyway. Lots of skin diseases and infections continue as well. Fortunately we have enough meds so far to treat all these problems.
Remember the ship with all the supplies and all the paperwork the local politicians wanted b4 delivery. Latest is ship hasn't been allowed to move since last friday.
Father Marc will meet with captain of ship, himself , mayor of Les Cayes & another Haitian gov't representative in AM.. Apparently all of the relief supplies that were meant for Espwa and some other nearby orphanages will now be split 3 ways and the Espwa kids get one third of what was collected and intended back at home.....THAT'S HAITI
Real humanitarian of the local gov;t here, HUH!!!!!
One really has to wonder about directed donations that all countries are continuing to give. The other 2/3rds of the items will probably be sold to the people or go onto the black market, locally. The whole situ is too ridiculous to cry about, so might as well make lemonade.
lots and lots of kids with parasites down here. here is something I learded last week from an older Haitian Grandma. She told me that her granddaughter was grinding her teeth so she probably had worms, and would I treat her. The kid was distended with diarrhea and poor appetite so I treated her for worms. Then I googled parasites and teeth grinding and guess what...grandma knows best. Apparently all the grand-people in Haiti know this fact except for dr.jerry.
Either I slept through this lecture in med school or Haitian grandmas are smarter than my parasite lecturer.
Old dog.....new tricks (How About That)
Type tomorrow....jerry
Clinic today , pretty busy. Lots of kids. What I was worried about is happening. All the crud we had last week and now there are coming in with clinical pneumonias...No X-rays---too pricey & very poor quality anyway. Lots of skin diseases and infections continue as well. Fortunately we have enough meds so far to treat all these problems.
Remember the ship with all the supplies and all the paperwork the local politicians wanted b4 delivery. Latest is ship hasn't been allowed to move since last friday.
Father Marc will meet with captain of ship, himself , mayor of Les Cayes & another Haitian gov't representative in AM.. Apparently all of the relief supplies that were meant for Espwa and some other nearby orphanages will now be split 3 ways and the Espwa kids get one third of what was collected and intended back at home.....THAT'S HAITI
Real humanitarian of the local gov;t here, HUH!!!!!
One really has to wonder about directed donations that all countries are continuing to give. The other 2/3rds of the items will probably be sold to the people or go onto the black market, locally. The whole situ is too ridiculous to cry about, so might as well make lemonade.
lots and lots of kids with parasites down here. here is something I learded last week from an older Haitian Grandma. She told me that her granddaughter was grinding her teeth so she probably had worms, and would I treat her. The kid was distended with diarrhea and poor appetite so I treated her for worms. Then I googled parasites and teeth grinding and guess what...grandma knows best. Apparently all the grand-people in Haiti know this fact except for dr.jerry.
Either I slept through this lecture in med school or Haitian grandmas are smarter than my parasite lecturer.
Old dog.....new tricks (How About That)
Type tomorrow....jerry
its funny you mention the worms... there was a show on tv sunday about parasites in tropical areas and i thought of you... sounds worse than it is! i was wondering if you would start to see more of that kind of thing with the situation down there... hope you are having fun and being safe! can you get worms in rum? that might be the saddest possibility i have heard today!?! love ya, vandylyn
ReplyDeleteright- the other thing the grammies will tell yo uis that that kid "manje te" which means eats dirt....good ol' mebendazole for that, as well.
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