Breakfast- pancakes; lunch- soup and chicken salad; dinner elk stew and rice. Girl scout cookies for dessert! Good coffee, lemonade, iced tea, snacks! All good!
Did 14 OR cases: Gyn, urology, gen surgery. One was hernia with appendix stuck inside. Saw lots of patients for later in the week. Hot muggy, thunder no rain.
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Had a good dinner, got into ORs. 2 big rooms and a procedure room. Very well supplied and stocked. Several groups from US come here often. Plan for 8 cases mon.
At our guest house, unpacking making spaghetti for dinner. The electricity and water are on. Our house seems quite nice and well equipped. Can't get in OR yet.
In PaP, all bags and people here. Hot and muggy. Starting our 45 min drive to our site. Flights uneventful, a nice group of people, mostly from WI. OR in am
In Miami about to depart for Port-Au-Prince.
On my way to Haiti with Friends of Haiti, based in Green Bay Wisconsin.
I am an anesthesiologist with special training in pediatric anesthesiology. I have been traveling around the world doing medical mission work since 2009.