The past few days have been a little chaos, especially today, not necessarily in a bad way. Nevertheless, Dorothy has been sick and so she hasn’t been able to do much. Which is fine, but I still am not very confident with how things completely go or what to do when certain problems arise. For instance I don’t know the language like Dorothy and definitely haven’t see as much or necessarily know what to do when problems arise with the babies and toddlers. Therefore, I have to send a huge thank you to nurse Nancy. If you haven’t heard about her yet here it goes. I met nancy the same time I met Dorothy out in Bercy. She has been coming to Haiti since December of 2002. However, her stays have always been months at a time, for summers, etc. anyway about (I think) 3 yrs ago, a little baby girl came into her life, Christelle (who is 4 now). She came to start the adoption process and she thought it would be a few months. She is now going on her (I think) 9th month here. She has gone home 1 or 2 times and each was less than a week. Nancy likes to stay busy and being a nurse is such a help to so many. She does a ravine clinic each week for Sherry Fausey, which I have mention before because I joined her one day. She also is constantly helping Dorothy out. I see her probably everyday to every couple of days. From organizing, to checking kids, to driving around (which btw she is an amazing driver here…she’s trying to help me) she seriously does so much. Although I have been here for a good month now…I don’t think I could have done today without her. Here is a brief of the day: Dorothy was so sick and staying in bed. Then we didn’t have gasoline for the generator and needed to do laundry. Then Emmanuel also notified me that we only had 2 more things water. Then Claudine (one of the toddlers) had a bad skin reaction to something so we had to figure out what was going on there. JJ was still having a fever and Diarrhea, and finally Kervens came home not feeling well with a low-grade fever. All of this happened before 11am. This is not counting the fact that Emmanuel (he works from 7-3, a BIG help) had to leave and pick up one of his children from school that was sick. Plus the trip that we made in the afternoon to take Dorothy and JJ to get blood tests at med lab. If Nancy wasn’t here I really don’t know how we could have got everything done. When she leaves, this will probably be in a month (tentatively) it is going to be very bittersweet. But the day is done and we are all well an quiet, for the most part…minus the fan, and all dogs barking outside.
Good night (Bon nwit)
nrt
1 comment:
wow! busy day! doesn't even sound like you were that defeated, just entertained, maybe? ha! love you, t-rae.
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