Haiti Day 5

Day 5
March 18, 2013

Today was a good day.  We had oatmeal for breakfast and got straight to work at the clinic. 

Gary, the nurse from the other team, was here on Friday.  He saw a baby who was 17 days old.  Her mother's milk had not come in and she was severally dehydrated.  The parents had walked for three hours to get to the clinic.  Gary and Weslyn taught the parents how to give the baby Pedialyte on their finger.  Gary didn't think the baby would make it.  Today the parents came back to the clinic with the baby and she is thriving!  The mother's milk came in and the baby was nursing.  Rodney checked her out and said she looks good.  Gary came into the clinic to share the story.  He was beaming from ear to ear.  Miracles happen and God is working in this place.

For lunch we had french fries, tangerines, and some kind of lobster salad.  As I suspected, I do NOT like lobster.

We had the clinic open until 3:00 and then we did VBS.  Dee told the story of the Lost Sheep.  The kids at Mountain View traced their hands on black construction paper and cut them out. 



We gave those handprints to the kids here.  They glued on cotton balls to make sheep.

We brought peanut butter crackers that the congregation at home had donated.  The kids were pretty orderly.  The parents, not so much.  Bill made the mistake of handing a cup of juice to one of the adults before we gave any to the kids.  He almost had a riot on his hands.



At the end, we gave each child a sticker.  Kids love stickers in any place and any language.