Casualties of the Mountain

04/05/07



The last couple of days have been pretty sad. On Tuesday morning, my sister, Rocky had gone over to cut the chord of a newborn baby boy with her husband, Mike and two missionary ladies (Sarah Ruzic and Melanie Golden). The 14 year old mother had just squatted and delivered her first baby, dropping him head first into the mud in her hut. Rocky had arrived in time to clean up the boy and try to get him to nurse with no luck. This was the same mother I had brought back up the mountain a few days prior from having a sonogram. The baby at that time was 3 weeks premature from being able to have a safe delivery date He died later that night never able to really breathe or eat.

I buried Beano, Kayla’s dog this afternoon. It had been whining the last 2 nights. His back legs were paralyzed. The native kids had informed us that he had eaten a poisonous snake.

I did get to try out my loctite glue on someone else beside myself. I couldn’t find any superglue so loctite would have to do. I was the first patient last Saturday morning. I was waiting to drive to Chiquimula with Sarah and pick up mattresses and decided to ride the street surfer---hit a rock and kissed the concrete with my head. The next patient was Andrew, a construction major from New York) who was hit in the nose with a machete. A local kid was waving his machete (all the males of all ages carry them). Andrew happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and took a slice across the bridge of his nose. I think our modeling aspirations have been crushed---HAHA