Day 6 Team Revive

... ring ring was the 7 am call to a warm and tasty breakfast. We had the opportunity to visit with a couple of retired administrators from IN & IL who are @ the Hopital Luminere to help with the revitalization plans. Then we went to the Chapel for morning devotions during which one of the administrators we had breakfast with had a town hall meeting with the staff.... sound familiar :).
We had a couple of disappointments with 2 of the patients we had planned to see. One had been prematurely discharged. We refocused and deliberated on the next plan for a home visit with the young SCI patient. Then it was marching down the ortho and medical wards to get patients out of bed and to the gym "Brooks Style" however I was reminded that we are now in Haiti and things can be done on Haiti's time, so things slowed down a little. Anita said our productivity is not being measured... phew what a relief. Valdora & Nicole had a great time making AFO's and treating the newly admitted child with  CP. Other patients treated were  CVA X 2, humeral fx X1, AKA +dementia X1, complicated hip ORIF  X1, multiple trauma & other ortho patients. We saw 13 today. The emphasis of our initial patient contacts was to determine their therapy working hypothesis as some did not have an MD diagnosis or update in their chart. We had help from June, the translators and the therapy aide the process was slower than usual when  communicating via a translator but for the most part it has been effective. The sweet young girl Kaitlyn that we met yesterday was sick today. Her parents are concerned because the last time she was sick, she had meningitis and had to be flown back to the states, so please join us in praying for her.

We are all lined up on the only wifi site bench, with the mosquitoes  having  us for dinner, so it's bye for now and stay tuned. Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers ... they are being heard.