Big nasty..... Cyst...

      Several days ago we did a minor operation at the clinic. A lady came in who had a large cyst between her shoulder blades. Apparently this mass has been growing for three years. It is bigger than my fist. It doesn't seem to hurt her so this lady hadn't been anywhere to even get it checked out. It had a place where it looked like it was almost to burst open so we got out some instruments and some lidocaine and started our "surgery." It was absolutely amazing!!! This thing was FULL of cottage cheese consistency goop. We got out about two cups of that stuff. Thankfully, it didn't have a smell!

So we decided it really was a cyst and not an abscess because of the lack of pain. An abscess that size would have been super painful. We did put a drain in when we closed the skin. This lady was supposed to come back on Thursday for us to do a dressing change but didn't show up. She doesn't live very far from here but who knows what happened.
     My brother Nathaniel and his wife Brittni are here visiting now so we have been having a very enjoyable time. They flew in the same day Keith's left so that worked out well. Trevor and Mirlene took us to the beach in Grand Gosier yesterday. It was beautiful, as always. Then today we took moto  and went to Foret market. Tomorrow evening we have an invite to Savann Mouton to the unit after church.
     The triplets' mom was back the other day to get more formula for her babies. She is so happy for the help we are giving them. A BIG thank-you to everyone who sent money to help her. She is so grateful.
   One other interesting case we saw last week. A local lady was in another town where she found a young boy with an injured leg. There were no parents at the house where this child lived, just several other children. He looks like he is about 8-10 years old but he doesn't know his real age. He has a sore on his upper leg that he says has been there a long time. He also has a scar further up on his leg that he says was just like this wound. He has so much scar tissue around his knee already that he can't straighten his leg. This lady took him in and brought him to the clinic the next day. We gave her supplies for dressing changes at home and so far it seems like that is working well. He came back after several days of dressing changes done at home and the wound definitely looked better. Here's hoping it will heal so that we don't have to pursue other options of doctoring. Maybe even the de-wormer and good food will help.
    It seems very unreal that Christmas is almost here. It is warm here and there aren't any Christmas lights or music except what we have been singing in church the past several weeks. I just don't remember ever being able to wear flip-flops on Christmas Day.