ABC's of this week: Advice about plants, Blood pressures and Cargo run

Seems like a long week as we draw near the end of it.

After Monday's storm things settled down to a more normal routine. We managed to fit in almost a full week of school between blood pressure checks and some extra cleaning duties.

Yesterday Cory spent the day traveling to Cap Haitian to shop for supplies, pick up cargo at the airport and go to the bank.

 We received a couple boxes from the folks and a Sonlight school box!

 I also received my Christmas present from last year-a Jesse tree that I'm very please with and excited that it finally made it to me.

This week we identified 58 ladies with normal blood pressures, 24 pre, 27 stage 1, 9 stage 2, 3 stage 3 and one dear lady with a systolic of 230 putting her in the 4th class.

We asked her to walk down to clinic, get treated, lay down until a nurse checked her blood pressure again and only if it improved was she to return to her room.

Anna walked down in the late afternoon to ask about her only to find that neither the nurses or doctor knew of the patient. Well I guess we did what we could.

Some of these ladies are already taking medications so may be actually in a higher stage.

A few did not bring their medications or haven't been taking them so we encouraged them to remain on daily treatment to avoid tissue damage and risks.

For the ladies like the me we arranged with the leadership that if someone's pressure were dangerously high that the medications would be paid for if needed.

 Will do more checks tonight and tomorrow if any further checks are needed.


This afternoon the attention remained on Cory after the morning's meetings as he briefly shared about plants and trees preceding giving each church a group of plants.

 These will need to be shared among the church families as smaller plants are produced.

 Every women could take a branch of chaya and katuk.

Two more days and conference season will be complete for the Fauche campus for 2012. The young people will travel to Southern Haiti in August for their conference.

Next week Cory plans to travel to Port for paperwork and to share plants and advice with an orphanage near the boarder of the Dominican Republic.