These photos of the new shop were taken about four weeks ago. It's looking much more finished now; unfortunately our new camera went on the fritz--we were quite unhappy about that, but "se lavi". In the photo above, you can see the loft storage area above the side rooms.
The north end and a partial front view.
The back side of the shop--the corner room with the window openings will be Astrel's new "house". He can hardly wait to move in!
Here's Tyler having fun welding rafters for the new shop roof.
Jean, this one is for you. These are the triplets you delivered two years ago.
And this is ten-month-old Oze (Hosea). Oze's mama, Wilna, works for us at the widow's home. Oze is hilarious entertainment for the widows, and a full-time job for his family!
"Our baby" went home two weeks ago, weighing 5 lbs., 2 oz. and we hear she's continuing to do well. The first photo shows her with her mama just before mama hopped on the motorcycle to take the baby home--not the way we'd take a preemie home, but she survived it.
This is just a quick note to let you all know we're still alive, and actually, doing quite well. As some of you know, we haven't had internet service at the hospital since we got back from the states. We hear that service will be restored at some point, so we're exercising our patience, and thank you for exercising yours, too!
God bless you all!
Everyone seemed to be everywhere over the weekend. Here you see Steve and John Benson installing the air conditioner the team brought down with them.................after the other one we already had wouldn't cool at cool............
Rich--working on wiring the big lights.
Mike, Dr. Tom, and Patty putting together a light.
John---installing one of the surgery lights.
Astrel and Tyler washed the ambulance in preparation for a busy week.
Rich was the guinea pig to see if Mike's monitor's were all working properly Monday morning.
This was taken Monday morning while last minute preparations were still going on. Observe the ladder still straddling the surgery table.
I put these photos on in the wrong order (maybe it's been too long since I've done it?), but I'm not going to try to redo lest I lose the post altogether. So.............here's a post-surgery patient in the ambulance ready to go home.
Here's Dr. Tom, Lisa and Karen just as they were finishing up with a hernia patient. I'll try to post some photos of the team where you can see their faces, too.
Ready for surgery. Isn't it amazing? We thank God Who provided, and his faithful servants who worked so hard to make all this possible.
I went with Rich yesterday on an ambulance run to take a lady to Port de Paix for surgery. We got her to the river just fine, but they had to cross the river on a little boat, then get another vehicle on the other side. The river is still high, swift, and muddy.
As we neared the river, we saw a lot of damage to banana plantations. Many plants were washed out or broken, and there were a lot of these sand bars. It reminded us of snow drifts back home.
More flood damage. We did not see many damaged homes.
Still working hard to finish the surgery room before the medical team comes. We installed the lower cabinet doors today, and Rich started painting the upper ones.
Here's Rich, yesterday, checking things out on the truck, after hauling a load of food up from Mole.
Wow, I got to upload photos two days in a row! Here Rich is painting in the hallway outside the delivery room. He also painted the delivery room, and refurbished one of the delivery tables.
This photo is for my mother-in-law, who has been asking to see a photo of the outside of our house. Here you go, Mom! We do plan to paint it---someday.
We spent last Saturday down at Mole, meeting four MAF flights. We were receiving relief bundles of food for Samaritan's Purse, and BHM. Since roads and bridges are out, getting food to the Northwest is a real challenge.
Ty was our "in the truck" man all day.
Hi folks--Here are a couple of photos for you. I've been trying and trying to post, but either can't get on blogger at all, or get kicked off as soon as I try to publish. These photos show the damage that was done along the coastline down in Mole. There were no injuries, just property damage, and folks there are longing for supplies and food to be shipped in, as is the case across the northwest Haiti.
..................the Wilson family came to visit. I did not get any pictures of Doctors Scott and Dnyse working, but we have photos of the rest of the gang! The kids did a great job of painting this mural.
Here are all artists.
And here's Betsy, measuring kids to see who qualifies for the malnutrition program.
Here's Rich putting the first coat of paint on the future surgery room.
Betsy and Laurie are helping to refurbish the old hospital beds that have been deemed salvageable. Here, after sanding and scrubbing, they're giving them a coat of paint.
Here are Rich and Ty painting cabinets for the surgery and recovery rooms.
And just last week while Steve and Faith were in Port au Prince, we had fun giving their kitchen a new face.
Rich says it was Botox for concrete.
When Dan and Sharon were here, they worked very hard to clean out this store room at the hospital.
It's now a freshly painted men's ward. We're just waiting for the beds. =)
