Quiet Sunday evening

Hello all you folks out in the cyber world. I am currently beaming to you from a satellite that is cruising over Les cayes, Haiti at about one zillion mph.

Well a lot of the water from yesterday is gone but it left lots of mud around here. Anyway mass was good this am even tho it started about 2 hours late. Kind of like a World Series game...with a rain delay.

The boys were playing basketball after the rain. One got smacked in the face and bled like a stuck pig. They woke me from a perfectly good nap around 4:00 PM to see him. He needed stitches and I haven't done this in a while. Oh well, kind of like riding a bike. Hope he doesn't come after me in a few weeks. Had to do some fancy eyelid work but I did it with pink stitches so at least he should like the color co-ordination. Just kidding about not doing it in a while, but I certainly shake a lot more than I used to. Too much caffeine??? Not enough RUM????

Remember the young lady I told you about with Malaria a few days ago. Well she came to church today and looked pretty bad. lots of pain, very tired, a little fever. Just kind of beat up in general. Now she looks and acts like the malaria the textbooks talk about- POOR LADY!!!!

Had Pizza for lunch after church-homemade by PETER. Then for supper had Barbancourt RUM (haitian), sprite and cold pizza - nice combo.

It is now about 10:00 PM and time to go nite-nite....see you....jerry

Sunday AM b4 MASS

Wow, mass starts in a half hour. I'll pray the rains stay away. Finally quit yesterday afternoon. four feet of water in downtown. buildings flooded. Tent city under water for those from PaP who were displaced to here.

Couple of young folks on a scooter who tried to go over a bridge that was underwater swept away when they got to the opposite side and about 10 feet of raging water. i have no idea about other parts of Haiti but there was a lot of rain here. The Good Lord certainly has a sense of humor, I guess????

Never made it to town last pm for dinner because roads around here all flooded.

This am--no rain, a little sunshine and I am washing my undies and hanging them out to dry just like my mama used to do

That's Haiti....type later if internet stays on . It went out for about 12 hours yesterday and overnight.........bye.....nase

Rainy saturday morning

What is up with you guys??? I just got some great news from back home. I will share it all with you when he sees it in writing but not until then because I am in haiti and nothing happens here like it is supposed to happen.

Remember that ship that I told you about that was to deliver #8 trailers loaded and a lot of other things. seems it is halted up the coast and the gov't here is changing the rules on them. Needs different papers then they were told bv4 proceeding. Now they won;t come until sometime next week but that could change .


Big time rains this AM . whole property flooded. Just what the folks in tent city needed. After 4 hours or so the rain stopped and the water is moving on. Holy cow, haven;t these folks suffered enough. Still working on the video portion of this blog but I am at a standstill. Only hope are my fellow volunteers who I am trying to entice with the possibility of receiving my children.s inheritance ( that should get at least 3 comments).

If the water drains off the roads here we are hoping to go into town for dinner tonight from the proceeds of all of you nice folks who have subscribed to this blog.

hugs & kisses....nase

HUMBLE PIE FOR JERRY

GOOD EVENING ALL YOU PEOPLE...

A day when one must swallow a piece of humble pie.

A youngish lady, about 40, had been having muscle pains, very tired,& just wiped out for the past several days. She did not have fever, chills, blood in her urine, etc,, .


So along comes this pediatrician we all know who was seeing a lot of the same stuff in clinic in Haiti and thought everyone in Haiti had post earthquake flu-like illness. So this pediatrician chalks up this young lady's illness to the same diagnosis. But because he works with her and sees her daily he examines her daily without much change for the better or worse.

Note: she is in Haiti for the second visit in about 6 months and she was told not to take any drugs for malaria prophylaxis this trip even though she did during her first trip. Along comes this smart Haitian nurse who tells her to have a malaria test just to check it out. She does and it comes back positive and she is started on therapy for malaria. Turns out this rookie pediatrician is from Alaska where the mosquitoes may stab you to death but won't kill you with Malaria parasite.

Bleach boy came back to see me and he was fine today.

The baby from earlier this week who was 4+ sick- no one has heard from since she left the clinic. don't even know if they went to hospital or not. That info seems very hard to get-hope to learn more

Another thing, my laptop seems to have been chosen by a family of the tiniest ants in the world and they drive me nuts when i try to smash them and thpe the wrong key. Now you all know I am not the greatest typist in the world

That issue about rounds up my first 10 days in Haiti- how about you guys?????

One more issue to get off my chest...these roosters are crazy here. they start about 3:00AM and scream about every 20 minutes or so , just to bug me..I had a dream they were all spinning in the roaster at Costco and I was screaming ay them every 20 minutes....bye....love....nase

cleaning out your pipes !!!!

Called over to clinic around 5:00 PM yesterday. Several adults talking to me in Kreole with a little 6 yo sheepishly sitting in clinic with a big bloated belly.he was wearing a milk mustache. After finding one of the older boys (high school)who spoke some English it turns out the kid drank the bottom of aa bottle that had bleach in it. we checked him out and most was well. He was afraid about the whole situ and that he had caused it. Watched him for a while and later sent him home to see me this AM.

Some folks were visiting when I got back to the Quad. One gent from Cross International and 4 ladies from a new organization that is trying to help out with the orphans. Had some Pasta and GARLIC BREAD with them and chatted for a while.

Some excitement this Saturday.

A ship left Maine area loaded with goodies about 3-4 weeks ago. Ten trailers (20ft.) on deck and a hole full of people's stuff from their homes wrapped in garbage bags. It is meant for Espwa. They will unload the trailers about 60 miles up the coast and drive them here. This process needs a crane and none around here (no port).

Then the big boat will come here and the stuff in the hole will be offloaded to small fishing boats and brought ashore. Father Marc is hiring extra police and UN peace keepers to be available just in case this all causes some sort of a riot---exciting,NO????!!!!!

Some of the trailers are headed for other communities around
Haiti. Very expensive to truck stuff around these days down here

Check out the news or CNN this weekend to see if anything happens.
Have a good Friday night.....jerry

Good Mornin' to you

Hey, get up it is 0500 darn roosters

Sorry for the little rant yesterday

I really do like what I do on a normal day!!!!!

Small group of people arrived last night . they drove from Port au Prince to Cayes in a truck. They said PAP was weird. Some streets cleaned up but all the buildings still down. lots of folks in the streets. I don't think they trust the buildings too much.

Sounds like at least American airlines is flying, now.

Time for a "shower" some coffee and off to work later.

Type later....nase

sometimes I hate what I do!!!!

Sorry about that- I hit the wrong button. Clinic this am was going along nicely and a mom and baby (2 month old) come in.

She says diarrhea for 3 days but seizures for a week. They are from the local community. Patient is posturing and seizing in front of me. very dry with tenting skin. looks only to the left with intermittent jerking movements (having a seizure).
Soft spot on head is bulging.

Most likely bacterial meningitis or cerebral malaria -neither of which is a good diagnosis even in the states.

We told her she needed to take babe directly to hospital for evaluation and spinal tap and IV antibiotics and anti malarial drugs....who knows if they will go. or go to a local healer first or no money to take to a hospital. Say a prayer for the kid!!!!!

No such thing as an ambulance service here.

This morning sucked(pardon my language).....nase