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 [...]
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Seven Simple Words
March 17, 2010 – 11:17 am
Getting Reorganzied
March 15, 2010 – 12:28 pm
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 – 7:50 am
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 – 9:23 pm
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
