[Photo captions. Left: Gavin taking out Augusma's sutures. This was 9 days since we started treating him, which was just after the accident. We have a half cast on his arm because the neck of his radius and the olecranon are fractured. Center: Enoch, Amy, me, Evan, and Laura on the tour of Cap-Haitien. Right: On Laura's birthday, Gavin taught Laura and me how to ride a motorcycle.]
Bonjou Mezanmi!
My last newsletter was a
brief update just to let you know that I'm
alive and
well. This time I wanted to give you
snippets of what I've been doing in Haiti for the
past 6 weeks. Throughout this newsletter, you'll see words with
web links, which will take you to
corresponding entries on my
blog.
First of all, I wanted to let you know that my
return flight has changed from August 9 to
July 31. The reason is that my older brother
Sundo is getting
married on
August 2. So now I only have a
few more days before I go home! Seems like my
plans always change on the fly (last year I decided to stay an extra month in P-au-P). I can't believe my time here is
almost over!
Secondly, I wanted to put a word out that the clinic here needs an X-ray machine to replace a broken one. Please let me know if you know anyone who needs to get rid of an old machine to replace it with a new digital one or for whatever reason. The one we have here has been broken for a while, and it would help so many people if we had a working X-ray machine.
During the
fifth week I saw a Haitian nurse
open a closed hymen on a 7-month old girl, helped treat a
delirious patient with fever caused by
tuberculosis, learned how to
take out stitches, sent
Laura (another short-term missionary) on a
birthday treasure hunt,
rode a motorcycle, tried to
resuscitate a 6-month old boy who ended up
dying, learned how to
start an IV, and learned how to properly
clean wounds and
change dressings from a
Canadian nurse. On Saturday I went to see the
Citadel, which was quite
amazing.
This past week, I learned how to do vaginal smears, saw a lesion on a cervix through a speculum, helped take a boy with a broken femur to a hospital, distributed some food for tuberculosis patients, and attended a funeral of one of the Haitian doctor's mother-in-law. On Wednesday, there was a violent and insane woman, so we had to drag her out of the clinic.
I haven't written about the
last couple weeks yet, but you can see some
pictures on my
web album. I will
continue to write about my
experiences after I come back home to the States.
Since all the other short-term medical missionaries have left as of last Saturday, it's been pretty quiet (and a bit lonely especially during breakfast and lunch), but I'm still enjoying my time here. Of all the mission trips that I've been on, I've seen and learned the most through my trip to Haiti this summer. I want to thank all the short-term and long-term missionaries that I've met here for making this such an enjoyable experience, all my friends and family for sponsoring me and for praying for me, and God for allowing all this to happen and for making this undoubtedly the best journey and the best summer ever.
Thanks for reading and for all the responses and comments on the blog!
Bondye beni w,
SunMin Kim
PS. Thanks to Laura, I now have a
number you can
call or send
text messages to:
+509-3727-7275 (but it's only good until July 31)
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