Yesterday I went to church… and just about froze. It was a misty rainy morning, and the temp had to be in the low 60′s I’m sure. I didn’t look at the thermometer though, there isn’t one to look at. In the afternoon around three, I went down to the clinic where Anita and Breanna were staked out on a birth. I took my Kindle along, and as nothing was happening yet, I read to them a while. It was so much fun! Around 7:30pm, things started happening and a very black little boy blinked in the light around 8:45. You wonder that I say “black”. Most babies here look very “blan” for the first while. But this little boy’s mama was dark, and his grandma was black! So he had reason to be a “black baby”. We went to bed, and after a while I heard the clanging/tinging of a rock on the gate. I hollered out the door to learn that there was a lady that “had something that hurt”. I asked what that was, and kind of groaned a bit when they said she was pregnant. Oh, well, duty calls. So with the required escort, I walked down to the clinic to find out what exactly was going on. I was glad for the escort this time, the group of guys who had carried the lady in were just a bit rough, and smoking who knows what! I laid down the law that there was no smoking inside the clinic fence, and had them carry the lady in. She was 8 months pregnant, and had an abnormality we couldn’t deal with. So, Anita and I decided that the only thing to do was take her to Ti Goave, and it couldn’t wait till morning. Anita went out with her cousin driving, and I did not envy her the COLD trip out of the mountains. At least the moon was rising; earlier in the evening it was PITCH black, but as I left the house shortly after 1am, it was a big yellow crescent resting on top of the mountains to the east. I crawled back in my bed and slept hard the rest of the night. Anita got back after we were at clinic this morning, and was promptly sent to bed. One of our Haitian nurses was gone, so I did consultations. I really enjoyed that; I finally feel competent enough communications wise to know that I’ll understand what they are telling me or figure it out in a round about way.
Well, that was all of Sunday. Sometime I’ll try to tell you about one old lady I saw today, and about my Saturday. I have pictures from Saturday. Talk to you again soon!
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