Nov. 14th

Monday the 14th.
     Dad went home from the hospital after doing well this weekend.
     Eli and Anna started new year of curriculum.
     Beth to receive her 4th dose of chemotherapy, tomorrow.

For the first time in a long time I saw 6 patients in clinic. If enough patients come to clinic I put in a couple hours seeing new patients and then return in the early afternoon to give patients who needed laboratory testing their results and treatments.

Today about 20 nursing students joined the crowd as they received orientation to the clinic and hospital. I do not know how long they will be with us but during my introduction by Pastor Rigo he mentioned the Creole health book. One of the students responded that she had the book and thought it was helpful. The other students will be able to purchase a book at the pharmacy if they wish.

I wrote the patient names, dates and a few medications on the prescriptions and prayed with some of the patients. I anticipated that the time in the afternoon between seeing the patiences for a second time and French class would be short. I arrived 10 minutes late to class.

Knowing that I was going to be late for class caused me to hurry with my last patient. I ended up rushing a bit and made an error. I explaned that because her pregnancy measurement looked to be one month smaller than expected she should get an ultrasound. She did not understand me so a student nurse explaning a second time what I wanted her to do.

 I thought I would check the dates again and got myself confused and thought that my error occured with the first calcuations. So I appologised and let her go...but that small voice in my head would not be quiet so later I recalculated twice and I was right the first time. Unfortantaly by the time I did this she had left for home. While it is  very doubtful that she would of gotten the ultrasound anyway I feel badly for the mistake. [She waited until 32 weeks to come for her first visit.] And I also know that if the baby is very small for dates there is little that could be done here to help but still I feel badly. [Or she could be mistaken on her dates and everything is fine.]

French class went well. School went OK. Anna put up Thanksgiving decorations while I read some of today's school books to her. I graded a couple things as well. A full day! I'm looking forward to going to bed.

Thank you for your prayers.