Moving Project Medishare And Saving A 16 Year Old Boy's Life Wow!!!!  It’s been a whirlwind of a week.  Since my last post we’ve moved an entire hospital in 5 days, got a kid out to the DR for a bur hole procedure, saved a little girl’s life by getting her the Rabies IG, and in the end, hopped on a plane for a 48 hour break in Boca Chica. I’ve received so many emails from everyone reading this blog telling me to make sure we take a break or we will either burn out or get sick.  We’ll both of those were about to happen and I’m glad to say that we caught it in time.  It has been 4 straight … [Read more...]

Bribing Cops, Daily Rains, And A Food Riot in PAP, Haiti Last night was quite the night.  Aside from the ongoing heat and overwhelming humidity I had the chance to see first hand what it takes to get out of a ticket.  We had one of our guys run Marjorie and Patricia home last night and on the way back he got stopped at a checkpoint about 6 blocks from the house.  The driver did not have a license and apparently that’s a big deal in PAP even though you can buy one for $150 USD and nobody here obeys any type of laws, speed limits, or general courtesies.  Back to last night, he got stopped at the checkpoint … [Read more...]