Day #3
Medical clinic #1
I awoke this morning with a massive tension headache running through my shoulders. The kind that makes me want to take a bunch of ibuprofen and crawl back into bed! But that’s not on the agenda for today!
What a day! I am so, so thankful that it is time for bed. We saw 296 people in our clinic today, which is a record number for Seguin.
While the clinic seems to be chaos, it is actually fairly organized chaos! Hannah is extremely well organized when it comes to these clinics, and she puts a lot of time, effort and energy into preparing and planning. Last night she assigned everyone their jobs for today, and thankfully I have the same job I’ve done for the past three medical clinics. Officially, my title is lead lab tech. That’s a glorified name for “urine and pregnancy person”! :) A few weeks ago, it looked like we would have several Haitian doctors and nurses on our team, but things changed per usual. We had one Haitian nurse, Samuela, who came with us from Port-au-Prince, and then today a Haitian doctor showed up to help in the clinic. He is a doctor in Jacmel who has recently started coming to Seguin two days a week. We also have several Haitian pastors that have given of their time this week to share the Good News of the Gospel with the people who come to the clinics. It was such a blessing to me to hear the Haitian people singing “The Solid Rock” this morning while we were setting up clinic.
We didn’t see anyone that was terribly ill today, but we saw a lot of pregnant mamas, people with high blood pressure, and hungry people. We handed out a lot of the RUTFs (highly nutritional meals for kids) to the mamas with large families.
We started setting up for the clinic around 6:00am, and we weren’t back up to the mission house until 5:30pm. It was quite the long day! We did take a short lunch break, but then got right back to seeing people. While it was exhausting, it was such a privilege to serve in this way here in Haiti today. I learned how to give a hemoglobin test today as well as a malaria test! It was a busy and full day, but God protected us. He gave us the energy to do what we needed to do.
Tomorrow will be a very early morning as we will be leaving for Chota at 5:00am. It’s 9:00pm, I’ve climbed up the mountain many, many times today. We are all ready for bed. Moriah, Hannah and I packed up the medications for tomorrow’s clinic while others counted out vitamins, anti acid tablets and iron tablets. My forehead is still tender and sore, but I’ll live. God is good. It is such a blessing to see so many Haitian pastor here and wanting to tell others about Jesus. To God be the glory!
Bag update! Good news- our bags are found! The bags are back in Port-au-Prince! Apparently, they never made it off of the MAF flight, so they went back to Port-Au-Prince. MAF will be putting the bags on a flight to Jacmel tomorrow morning, and Pastor Falde has reached out to someone to see if they’ll bring our bags up the mountain. While my bag isn’t nearly as essential, I’ll be happy to have my own pillow, those nutritional meals, and all that food! Hannah needs her bag for the medical clinic, so we are very happy that it looks like we will be able to get the bags back sooner rather than later.
So many people stepped up today and worked outside of their comfort zones! It was amazing to see everyone working together. Ashley stepped into the role of “consultant” as in she saw people and prescribed treatment. Emelie, Amanda, Gina and I worked in pharmacy and the lab. Hannah managed about everything and everyone all while not losing her mind- I have no idea how she did that! Beka Falde managed the people waiting after triage, while Jodi and Jackie worked in triage. Moriah Falde helped in pharmacy and also helped with “consultations”. Those that weren’t helping in the clinic today took a hike to check out a place for a landing strip someday. They also worked on projects around the mission house, and whatever else needed doing. Honestly, I didn’t see much of Garett today but I know that he’s in good hands with Micah and Josiah Falde and my dad is around here somewhere! God is good!
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