Not much news today...

    The little girl who had burns on her back etc... Hasn't been back. She came three times and I was happy with how it was looking. I don't know if the family just decided it was getting better so they didn't need to come any more or what.
      On Sunday morning we had another long church service with 28 baptisms. This one lasted a little over four hours. We were very ready for lunch by the time it was all finished. During one of the baptismal prayers a "crazy" lady came in the church and marched right up front then pulled her bag of cheese puffs out of the back of her pants and deliberately started eating them. Then she wanted to put some money in the collection basket. I was sitting by the aisle so got a prime view of what all things happened during that prayer. It was rather humorous to say the least. She gave up on finding the collection basket finally then threw down her chip bag and walked out, leaving a trail of the remains of her chips on the way.
    One interesting thing, last Thursday in the night there was another kamyon accident. It was the same driver as tipped the truck near here earlier. Apparently he tipped his truck over the week before last too but nobody was hurt that time. This time sixteen people were hurt. It was further away from here but we went in case people would need transport to the hospital. He lost brakes going down a hill and all the people were thrown into a ravine. So far we haven't heard of any deaths from this time. By the time we actually got there another kamyon had loaded up everyone that was injured and they were already on their way to the hospital. It is a good thing too because it would have taken hours to clear the road enough for our ambulance to get by. We are all hoping this time the truck will be totaled  but don't know for sure yet. It looked bad that's for sure.  Of course the driver ran again. Seems kind of strange that he never gets hurt.
    This morning when we got to the clinic there was a lady there in labor. As soon as she came in the exam room we knew she had a bad infection because of the bad smell that came with her. She has four children already. We started IVF's and washed her up a little then gave some oxytocin. She did well until the baby's head was born but then his shoulders were stuck. We tried everything we could think of to help but his shoulders wouldn't budge. He had the cord around his neck too so when we realized the baby didn't really have a chance anymore we cut the cord then slipped it over his head. The cord had a greenish color. Finally after a lot of pushing and pulling the baby was born. He didn't have a heartbeat anymore though. We think if this mom had tried to have this baby at home they both would have died. I think the baby probably would have been pretty sick too because he had an awful lot of nasty green fluid coming out of his nose. The whole placenta was a greenish color too. This mom had been to our clinic the first of this month and had gotten antibiotics so we don't know if she didn't take them or didn't take the whole dose or what. We gave the mom IV antibiotics right away the wanted to watch her for a while before we sent her home. Turns out she was bleeding quite a bit and we finally got the family convinced that she needed to go to a hospital in Port. Meanwhile another lady was carried in on a bed. We couldn't figure out exactly what her problem was but we suspect tetanus. She had gotten a cut on her leg a month ago. We had stitched it and given her antibiotics but decided if the ambulance was taking one person down it might as well take two patients. They left right before lunch. One strange thing about these two pregnant ladies recently with terrible infections. They had both been to see some priest or pastor in he days before they had their babies. We don't know what all he gave them. This lady had been treated with "many bottles" though. I don't know what he could give that would affect the babies this way though because at the beginning of the labor both babies had a good heart rate. We hope this mom makes it.
  This weekend the orphanage girls are coming up for a short weekend. Then next week Craig, Lyndsey, Zoey and Amy come so I am very enthused!