Two days in a row!

This is a rarity. We are at the GrassRoots United house, having a kind of meet and greet with them and some of the other people that live with them. They have a cool "earthship" here, which is a structure built out of old plastic bottles, tires, and concrete. They also build huge domes that look like giant jungle gyms. Pretty neat. The coolest part is that they have a literal hole in the wall that leads to the Haitian neighbors who sell beers. There is a little purple bell you ring and they come and take your order. So I'm having a semi-cold Prestige, enjoying myself.

So for anyone that went to Puerto Vallarta spring break 2010, I was looking around PAP today and realizing that it's slightly (key word) like PV, in that there is a large bay, and the rest of the city rises up into the mountains. There is actually a lot of beautiful scenery here, and a very pretty sunset tonight actually. There are a lot of steep hills and a lot of houses that seem on top of each other. I know there's still a lot of the city that I haven't seen, but so far this is what it seems like. There are always tons of people on the streets, selling anything from Cokes and Sprites to fried bananas to toiletries, refrigerators, and bedroom furniture.

Today, Jeanne and I got to go to the General (aka HUEH, the General Hospital) and work with Dr. Megan Coffee who does amazing work with tuberculosis patients. She has three tents at the hospital that house maybe 60+ TB patients and she is there every single day for at least 12 hours. In Haiti, the family members often take care of tasks that nurses would sometimes do in the US, like dressing changes, bathing, etc. So when patients come in without family, they are frequently anxious about who will take care of these activities, so Megan does these tasks for them. We got to come in and take some of the work off of her plate by doing dressing changes and blood draws. It was great. Even though it was in tents and you have to wear a heavy duty mask to protect yourself from the TB. I don't know if I've ever been so sweaty, and that is saying a lot coming from me. We plan to go there tomorrow and as many days as we are available. I really can't say enough good things about Megan and I have only known her for a few days. She is doing truly amazing work and is so dedicated.

So I really don't want to make Facebook albums for Haiti for some reason, and it seems that I just don't have the time it takes for Blogger to upload them directly to the blog. So for now I'm going to put them on Snapfish (sorry, I think you will have to make an account to see them, but I hope you will if you don't have one already!). I might be uploading occasional pictures from my phone to Facebook, but the Snapfish ones should be better quality. Click here/copy and paste this link and email me if it doesn't work: http://www2.snapfish.com/snapfish/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=2372139021/a=1455062021_1455062021/otsc=SHR/otsi=SALBlink/COBRAND_NAME=snapfish/.  So check both. I might not have time to add captions this go around, but I will eventually. All is well here, hope it's the same back home or wherever you are.

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