One of the common statements from all the teams has been the fact that the days seem very long, but the week is done in a blink. Our last day started like all others; breakfast and watching the sunrise over the fields while drinking hot coffee from a pan on the stove. Rounds went smoothly, [...]
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Sense of renewal – Dr. Bohay
February 18, 2010 – 9:48 am
7:11 a.m.
We were visited yesterday by Dr. Charles who is in charge of overall medical communication and logistics here in Haiti. She is among a group in Haiti who have organized a countrywide scheme to identify facilities with beds and resources available. She commended us on the Double Harvest facility and sent praise to all [...]
Team 5’s Initial Thoughts from Haiti
February 14, 2010 – 5:22 pm
Initial Thoughts
Haiti is amazing! The amazement begins on a private jet flying 43,000 feet over the Bahama Islands and continues as you fly across the mountain ranges of Haiti. Unreal. It looks like Hawaii, but then as you approach the airport you see the Navy Comfort ship, aircraft carriers, Apache helicopters, Nancy Pelosi’s plane and [...]
Team 5 begins in Haiti – 2/12
February 14, 2010 – 4:50 pm
You never really know what to expect until you step onto the tarmac at Port-au-Prince among the Blackhawk helicopters, US Army transport, planes, tents and soldiers in Humvees.
We landed safely and greeted our brothers and sisters leaving to return home. All had smiles and most felt what has been described as the happiness to return [...]
Tremendous support from Haitian counterparts
February 12, 2010 – 11:27 am
We have left Double Harvest, but one item that escaped us was tetanus rounds. They were out, but Grace stated we had since received more. We had planned to give everyone tetanus shots prior to leaving. However, time escapes us as we left for the airport at 8 a.m.. We are here now, waiting for [...]
Team #4 says goodbye to Haiti
February 12, 2010 – 11:03 am
“THE DAYS SEEM LONGER THAN THE WEEK”
It is early in the morning on Friday, February 12. Our team will be leaving today. The sun is beginning to rise over the horizon and unlike the other days where the skies were bright and sunny, today brings dark clouds covering the southern part of the country. We [...]
A new covenant for Haiti
February 11, 2010 – 9:57 am
It is just before midnight on Wednesday as I step outside to once again talk to a machine to summarize our day’s events in hopes of bringing our family and friends a bit closer to us through this blog. I look around and there are a few lights in the distance The stars are out [...]
OAM team #4, day 4 in Haiti
February 10, 2010 – 10:13 am
To recap our second day in Haiti at the Double Harvest Mission: It wouldn’t be another day in Haiti without another delivery! Yes today, Susan Kaminski the OB specialist with us was busy once again. There was another emergent delivery of an infant in the back of a pickup truck. The team at Double Harvest [...]
OAM’s work highlighted in the Grand Rapids Press
February 9, 2010 – 4:31 pm
West Michigan orthopaedic surgeons gave own blood as they worked to save patients injured in Haiti earthquake
By Ted Roelofs | The Grand Rapids Press
February 09, 2010, 11:28AM
As earthquake recovery in Haiti continues, a group of West Michigan medical volunteers is finding rays of hope amid despair and destruction. At a small health clinic east of [...]
OAM Team #4, Day 2 in Haiti
February 8, 2010 – 9:19 am
Today marks our second morning in Haiti. We said goodbye to our friends from Miami today who provided us such a tremendous welcome and were truly a wonderful team that was able to fill all rolls and were able to support us in transition and getting our feet on the ground our first full day [...]
