ORS fun & IV crisis...

Hi to you all! 

I am enjoying the opportunity to be here in Haiti this month! Yesterday Meredith Keller and I were on duty from 8am-4pm. We half anticipated a slow,boring sorta of day since the number of patients has been lower lately. We were surprised by a little faster pace! :) 

One of the fun moments of the day was when we were in the main room making our check-up rounds. We had one older gentleman that just came off his IV and he was doing a good job of drinking up the ORS we were giving him. However the man across the room was being rather contrary about drinking his ORS! {And the lady beside him really was
not doing any better!} So we began to jokingly tell him how he will be punished if he does not drink. It quickly turned into a fun competition of who could finish their bottle of rehydration fluid { ORS} first! The room echoed for a while with much applause and peals of laughter! :) It was a relaxing time for staff and patients!

Later in the day we were quite busy admitting one patient when this little boy was carried in, laying limply across his dad's arms, his eyes rolled into his head, and obviously very dehydrated! We found out in short order that he was carried down from the clinic in Basice because the nurses there had tried and failed to find a vein to put an IV in. Faithful Thea was called upon to try her skills of putting in IV's.

After several tries,and some very desperate prayers,the IV did slide into a vein and the fluids began to go through his little body! In 4 hours the difference in his condition was outstanding!!! PTL! He is continuing to heal. The dad, who looked so hopeless before, was very pleased with how fast he was turning around,and asked special permission for a few of his other children to come see how he was improving! 

It is so exiting to see life returning to these sick folks. How much more to see some receiving everlasting life!

                    ~Kirsche Hess ~