rough night. . .

last night sylveste one of our nurses was doing a delivery and she said to me in perfect english right after the baby came out, "i need you to come look at this." so of course i did. the baby had its intestines on the outside of its body. it is called an omphalocele and is a medical emergency. we went into emergency mode and a few hours later (yeah that is an emergency in haiti!!) we arrived at the hospital. as of tonight the baby still hasn't had surgery.

while at the hospital last night i thought i would just check and see if nesly was still there. i didn't figure that he would live. at the end of the men's ward his bed was empty, i walked past it and turned to the small mass under sheets on another bed. i pulled back the sheet and it was him. i could hardly believe that he was still alive. he opened his eyes in shock to see me. he immediately reached out his arms. he still looks horrible.

also while at the hospital a man come up to me and said thanks for helping pay for his wife to get to the hospital. we had sent her that day because of her dangerously low blood levels. he said that baby had died, but she was ok. he could hardly stop saying thank you, thank you. . . there would have been no way for them to get to the hospital had i not financially helped them from money that was given to me from people like you.

i was exhausted upon getting back and getting in bed.

we have had generator issues most of today, when that happens we don't have a pump for our water tank. hopefully it keeps running, they seem to have it fixed now.