Dr Russo teaches glucose testing

Dr Russo teaches glucose testing to Alix and Carline

Haitian Americans treat the Wounds

Dr Toussaint teaches how to take BP

Dr Toussaint teaches how to take BP

Dr. Toussaint in Haiti

Dr. Toussaint in Haiti

Dr. Abel

Dr. Abel

French colonial architecture- I presume

We took a walk in the neighborhood . . . Could not get over the natural beauty, combined with quaint french architecture! ...and the cracked-opened and fallen schools and large homes. The stories: 'yes many students died here,... not there- none killed'. Walking the quiet residential streets felt comfortable - no hassles as foreigners.

French hosp roof view of hills of PtaPr

French hosp roof view of hills of PtaPr

A tap-tap bus. (sorry,a little blurry)

A tap-tap bus. (sorry,a little blurry)

Went by some hospitals today but only came away with a baggie full of iron pills and a couple of inhalers. One of the clinic staff's uncle did take our advice yest and went to the hosp and was admitted; we visited him today. We had a catholic lenten procession on OUR street! I picked up on a significant heart murmur and sky high blood pres
in a 15 yo! Luckily eric the cardio. diagnosed and directed a follow up plan for the hospital to do. I skype with the clinic adminsrtr who is coming down from Fl. Seems to be tending to our wish list.

Overcast in Haiti. . . with sprinkley rain, as the line forms: ptsd and somatic symptoms for many, while others walking around with deadly bp or diarrhea in a newborn. Where do you go when your clinic w/ your bp or tb meds has collapsed?

We took a ride around Port au Prince...

We took a ride around Port au Prince... hard to describe: devastation everywhere, yet they survive and eek out an existence: not sure what's more profound: buildings, in every direction you look, are down or frozen in half-down positon. Or maybe it's seeing the citizens of this once gorgeous city, scavenging wood and metal from 2nd story level of half devastated buildings, the tarps and tents in every public square square/sidewalk/even blocked off streets. The people getting buckets of water from the gutters of oily streets. The church that has stood 150 years falls with this historic quake.

I saw no obvious reconstruction or demolition going on, and we drove extensively in the Port au Prince area. In Galveston, my home town, 2 mos after hurricane ike, it was weird seeing federal aid trucks everywhre: salvation army type trucks for free hot lunch, tide detergent stations to let you wash your clothes,demolition dozers and trucks everywere and areas piled up. In contrast i saw nothing like this going on here. i'm sure there is much of these things going on, but it was not obvious to us.

One of the local guys from our clinic, showed us where he was driving his 2 girls when the quake happened: a woman getting elecrocuted to his left, a wall falling to his right, and behind he saw a fallen building where he had just passed, thanks to a nice guy who had waved him on seconds before the quake!