Its been a quiet week here...well Sunday evening we had some surprise visitors. Two men arrived looking for a place to stay for a couple of night. They had been to St. Marks (where one of them had served his mission many years earlier) and also to Gonaieves. They discribed it as still full of mud after the hurricane season last year. I have some pictures of it after the hurricanes. The city remains in devastation to this day.
Ken and Ed and I paid a visit to Hospital de la Paix - I think that is the name...It is a very nice hospital and the Project Medishare team does their surgeries for the hydrocephalus children here. They are the only people to do surgery as they are able to bring a portable autoclave to sterilize their instruments. The hospital has a non- functioning autoclave so no longer does surgery. Dr. John Reghab is the pediatric neuro surgeon in charge. He told us how the program needs to expand and he now has surgeons from Boston and Kansas City on his team... Currently the team comes twice per year to do surgery but his goal is to have the program (including training Haitians which he does ) develop to having at least 4 team visits doing the surgeries. The sooner they can get to these kids the better outcome. He expressed much appreciation for the partnership of HHH and also made a point of thanking the docs (from Team Portland) that saw many of the children when the team was here in February. He said he wished he could have that collaboration before each visit. They did 25 surgeries and some children have already returned home- They felt is was a very successful trip- even the 'tricky' surgeries had positive outcomes to that point. Jony said same as of this time. Very happy news for everyone.
Ed and Ken left Tuesday morning. Hopefully, they will send me some of the pictures they took at the hospital.
Since this is Easter weekend, the holiday begins tomorrow but in actuallity today at noon. I was just informed.
My son is leaving today for training in California until May 1. At that time he will return home to finish up business before being deployed, first to Georgia for more training and then when the unit is ready, they will be shipped to Iraq. He is scheduled to be there for 1 year. As a mom, I'm feeling pretty emotional about this. I keep telling myself not to think about it but its not working. I should have another opportunity to talk with him before May 8....
Happy Easter to everyone...
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