Gran Gosier

      On Thursday Jay's went down to Port-au-Prince and picked up Amberly Goertzen. She is from Nebraska and is going to be the school teacher for Lydia and Ellie. 

      We decided to make Saturday a beach day. We left the house at about 8:30 and stopped at the market in Foret des Pins for about an hour. The girls needed school shoes so while Brianna and the girls were shoe shopping I took Amberly on a very brief, short tour around Foret market. I took her to see where they butcher cows then we did a quick circle through some of the booths. We got some pistach and a slushy drink (pistach is the locally grown peanuts that have been roasted over a fire). They are amazing! 

     After a long, bumpy ride (which I really don't mind) we got to Gran Gosier beach at about 1 pm. When we go to this beach we always stop in the town of Thiotte on the way down and place our supper order at a small restaurant there- how many people, what we want to eat and what time we will be back. Jay built a fire there on the beach and we quickly ate some hot dogs before enjoying several hours on the beach. This is not a commercial beach at all. We saw one other man. He had caught some fish and had a small fire going and was washing his clothes in the cold springs there. It is not unusual to see a few people, often when someone is bringing their cows or goats to drink. We spent several enjoyable hours in the sun then washed some of the salt water off in the cold springs before heading back to Thiotte for chicken, goat, rice with black bean sauce, bannann peze (fried plantains) and potato salad. We got home a little after 9 pm, a long day but very enjoyable. 

     Sunday afternoon we saw one emergency- a lady had been in a moto accident and had a broken leg. Both of the bones in her lower leg were broken. We cannot fix that here so we gave her a shot for pain and splinted her leg so hopefully her trip down to the hospital isn't quite so painful. 

     Today we finished seeing patients at about 2 pm so we closed the clinic and came home. There were a couple of calls later this afternoon. One was a young lady who looked like she wasn't feeling well but her complaints were rather vague. She did have a cough but her lungs were clear and her blood pressure was normal. I was contemplating what medication to give her and mentioned that it just really wasn't clear what was wrong with this lady. Brianna wondered if the lady was angry at someone. I hadn't thought to ask so went back out on the porch to question the lady and her husband. Yes, they readily admitted,  she was angry with someone. I told them I could give her a few medications to help with her headache and other complaints but I didn't have any medicine that could help her get over being angry with someone. I asked her if she knew Jesus. Yes, she said she did. I told her Jesus is the only one who can help you with this anger. There is no medication I can give you that will take that away. 

     The second patient I saw after hours today was a kid who had been kicked in the mouth by an animal and he needed a few stitches. I'm sure it hurt a lot to get lidocaine shots in his lip to numb it up so I could stitch it but he did very well. He flinched a couple of times but there were no tears. I put 5 stiches on the outside and 2 on the inside. 

     That is all for now...