Baby David

Dec 5-Our team started at the prayer rock for morning devotions.  What a beautiful day the Lord has made!  We then split up into two groups, part stayed back at the mission to build benches.  They built 19 benches to be distributed to several different churches.  They did an awesome job!  The medical team drove 20-30 minutes away to a nearby school and set up shop in a 3 room school. Some of the team did some VBS activites with the children waiting to be seen and also handed out Love Bundles.  The medical team went to work, in the first small room Angie triaged patients, we ended up seeing 91 patients in about 5 hours.  It became very chaotic, people were trying to push into the room to be seen.  The mission leader talked with the man in charge, and informed him that they needed to talk with the people and get organized or we would not be back.  We went to the bus to eat and then went back.  The number of people there had decreased significantly, people were sitting down and came up to be seen in an orderly fashion.  After triage they stood in line and came in to be seen by the doctor one by one.  The doctor saw the patient with an interperter, the triage nurse gave each patient a peice of paper with symptoms on it and the doctor wrote the medicine needed on the back.  After being seen they were taken next door to the pharmacy where Lari Jo and Darci, with an interperter passed out meds with instructions and education.  Some of the things we treated today were lots of diarrhea, fever, runny noses, some parasites, aspirated a ganglion cyst, & aspirated an abscess on top of a little girl's head. 
Things we saw today that we weren't able to fix were twins with heart defects, an elderly lady with a probable bowel obstruction, and a little eight year girl who was blinded during the earthquake, a door blew out and hit her in the left eye.  It's heartbreaking when you look at these people and tell them there is nothing you can do, or try something minimal and if it doesn't work they really need to go to the hospital.  They will never go to the hospital because it is futile because you need money to be treated, and these people don't have it.
Last and the most heartbreaking, a three month old baby, the team named him David Christian, was brought to us by his grandmother, weighing in at 3.3 lbs.  That is right 3.3lbs!!!!!  He was born at noon and his mother had died by 8 pm that night of unknown causes.  There was no one to breast feed him and the family was poor and had no money to buy formula.  The family was mashing up food and feeding him regular food!  We ended up bringing him back to the mission and putting an IV in and giving him fluid boluses, and feeding him formula with an eye dropper.  I am sure this will be a long night with a baby in the house, getting up every hour or two and feeding him.  I'm sure we will all fight over this opportunity, he is the center of attention!!!!  We have been back to the mission for about 3 hours and just since the fluid boluses and food he looks amazingly better.  We ask that all who read this, to please pray for this little guy!!!!  He is a fighter since he has made it this far and was brought to us today, God has a plan for this sweet baby!

Tomorrow we will go into the mountains to a village with our medical team.