Destination Haiti

Destination Haiti
Bonswa s’ami mwen! Sak pase? Mwen bon, mwen grangou, mwen swef, mwen pas kapab pale Kreyol! That’s a whole lot of things in Kreyol that I will be saying or asking in the near future. I leave on another adventure to the capital city of Haiti, Port-au-Prince, on Friday morning, early! I have to be in Buffalo by 6 am! No, wait, I fly at 6 am, meaning I have to be there at 4ish. Insane!!! Nicole Dejonge and I hope to assist with the post-operative care of about 20 children receiving surgeries for hydrocephalus. I have never appreciated our North American health care system with all it’s flaws so much as when I returned from similar endeavors in May. Please be thankful that you have trained medical staff, that you have sterile conditions for operations, that there are ICUs and lots of medicine and IV solution and clean sheets and air conditioning and so many of the other things that we so easily take for granted! Hydrocephalus is fairly common here in NA as well as in Haiti but the big difference is that in Haiti there is next to no health care. So we go, to help out as best as possible, crossing cultural and language and skill barriers along the way and stretching ourselves to attempt to share a little of our knowledge and a lot of our love with the children of Haiti. Please pray for safety and strength and health as we are in Haiti, but most especially for the children who are being assessed and operated on. May God add His blessing to the labours of our hands!