The last couple of days were hectic as we scrambled to secure placement of our last inpatients, while still dealing wth the busy clinic and some last minute surgeries. We were able to get our inpatient census to zero this morning. It was a bittersweet moment as we had grown fond of these people. Though we were [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Balancing Our Mission
March 26, 2010
We continue to plug away. Balancing our mission of winding down the surgical practice, yet taking care of the present Orthopaedic needs which still need expertise which can be uniquely handled at Double Harvest. We had another 12 hour OR day today, which I know pales in comparison to what the earlier groups had to [...]
Doing The Best We Can
March 23, 2010
Team 8
Monday was a very busy and difficult day with a very busy clinic and surgery schedule. At 8 am the benches and waiting areas were overflowing with patients waiting to be seen. Surgically we completed skin grafts on a young child and did 5 other cases mainly involving infected hardware.
We admitted 2 more infected hardware patients for [...]
Haiti kids have great smiles
March 22, 2010
Saturday and Sunday were both busy days for us. We have a full census with 3 patients overflowed into the garage. I’m very proud of everyones efforts, and we do believe that we are making a difference. Some of the problems have been quite difficult to manage, however, with several infected nonunions and a few [...]
Grand Rapids Was Here
March 22, 2010
3/19/10
As I write this we are en route back home to Grand Rapids courtesy of the Whirlpool Corporate Jet. That fact alone is no small achievement today as the drive from Double Harvest to the airport was interesting. The rainy season seems to have begun in Haiti and about 100 yards from leaving the gates of [...]
A good first day for Team 8
March 19, 2010
Team 8 is at Double Harvest, arriving uneventfully. Lots of confusion at the airport, with people shouting and grabbing our luggage. We made it up to Double Harvest in the back of a pickup truck since the minivan couldn’t make it through the mud.
We were greeted by 3 awesome nurses who have been invaluable in [...]
Seven Simple Words
March 17, 2010
Hello,
We continue to be very busy at Double Harvest. We were surprised by a group from Ohio showing up rather unexpectedly today. They are going into Port-au-Prince tomorrow and plan on leaving Thursday.
Overall cases keep coming in. There are a few new fractures and many interesting cases as well as a lot of follow ups. We are seeing several cases of infections as [...]
Getting Reorganzied
March 15, 2010
Hello all,
To sum it up, today has been a learning day. First of all we weren’t quite sure if we were on daylights savings time or not. A few of us were ready to go round at 6am….after a quick google search we realized we could have slept another hour!
We all realize how hard it’s [...]
Return to Haiti Team 7 Arrives Safely
March 13, 2010
We have all arrived safe and sound. Spending the first night in the vocational building with plans to move up to the clinic tomorrow. Did get to make rounds with the Manhattan (Kansas) group, but mostly OB-Gyn and ENT. Three of us will be going to the University Hospital tomorrow to round up patients and to [...]
Returning home from an impactful experience
March 3, 2010
Team 6B is home.
Started the day by waking up to a failed generator. “Pancake Steve” flipped breakfast for all. We made rounds with Diane Cable. Had to take Jolanda (AKA) back after her wound opened up, it’s probably colonized (infected). We used our first real VAC. Valeri is still under weather so adminstration canceled the [...]
