January 06th, 2017

Oh my God I finally got in.   It's already Friday night.  So much to catch up on but I'm thrilled Colette was able to post some pictures from others. I'm sitting here with my son in this s lounge area alone  and I've been moved to tears more than once watching him with this team. He and Ian Cierzan are the younger ones both non medical and I told him I've had a number of "lay people" over the years who were not at all perceptive and self motivated to get it done and literally jump in wherever he was asked.  I will be smiling about this for awhile and am so proud of his work here with this team
the Haitian rice bags we purchased were definitely a talking point. Especially with the natives. The drove over 3 hours to Gonaive to get the 10 bags. What we didn't know is that these 10 bags are each 113 kg which is 230+ pounds. So we've been watching 2 men SLIDE the bags along the floor and then 5 men use all their might to get them on a table. I will try tonpost
we spent time at a market yesterday  a number of folks made some purchases and we got out of the compound.  After an easy day of prep and organizing for the week we were on our way 2 FULL hours on the tap tap to a palace called Pasquelone. Close to Mirabalais in the mountains and absolutely beautiful countryside.   It always feels disconjobulated to start but everybody got the system figured out. The 10 translators are T their best as always and it's so fun for me everything mesh together. We used 7 providers including me and in about 6 hours saw over 300 people and VAva pulled 48 teeth. No kidding. He asked for a n assistant through  the day.  Ian got in early and Elijah was with him for a a couple hours holding the light for him. Cleaning instruments and encouraging the kids. He has some good stories here tonight man the details and I've told him several times I would never have traded into his position. Never. I was impressed