Friday

A very odd day. The man who apparently owned the lean-to where our clinic was located died-- and his family demanded more money from IMC, who refused. So -- we got kicked out! We were so distressed as we had a number of patients that we had asked to return so we could check on them. Life in Haiti is such chaos. We spent the day, instead, traveling with the medical director to two other clinics. And as impossible as it sounds -- they were in communities that were more poor than ours. Up on a mountain, filled with makeshift cloth tents, children everywhere, most of whom had no shoes...........but they were more than happy to have their picture taken as you can see!

Tonight we will move to IMC's guest house in Petit Guinea but it seems to be a bit uncertain what comes next........we thought we'd be returning to Port-au-Prince but it appears we may go to help start a clinic in the next center, another town on this peninsula called Leogane. If we do go there-- I'll be out of touch the whole week.

Wish me luck. I guess it was too much to expect organization amongst off of this upheaval..... The Leogane director said she specifically asked for our little group of 3 NPs because we're so low maintenance -- a term that my family surely has never used when describing me!

Love,

Laurie