Sunday, April 23, 2006

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Cité Soleil: In January, three short months ago, Cité Soleil, a slum of more than 200,000 and unarguably the worst part of a brutally poor c...

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Waiting on Haitians: We have been the ones waiting this trip: waiting for Fastina, Katia, and Nadia to show up or otherwise contact us. Fina...
Saturday, April 08, 2006

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From Bonjour to Buenos Dios Hola from the Dominican Republic where we´ve come for a few days R ánd R. The two countries occupy this island i...
Wednesday, April 05, 2006

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Noisy Nights and Days: The combination of noises last night—whooee! It was a cacophonous racket. We had a roomful of Guatemalans next door t...
Tuesday, April 04, 2006

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Dukens and Mirterlande: Lessons from Two New Heart Patients Pierre brought his friend Dukens Desir to see John this morning. Dukens is 16. H...

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Musings on a Morning Walk Yesterday morning on the way to Grace Children’s clinic, I heard a boy yelling from behind, “Hey you! Hey you!” Wh...
Sunday, April 02, 2006

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One Child At A Time: We walked to church at the Missionaries of Charity, dodging piles of garbage and polluted puddles covering the road. Be...
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Saturday, April 01, 2006

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My Life in the Middle Ages: A Survivor’s Tale--A Book Review Here is the next entry in my ongoing series of book reviews. I went to the Peki...

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John’s Brown Bag: A couple Haitian Hearts patients have stopped by. We saw 27-year-old Suze yesterday. She is special to me in part because ...
Friday, March 31, 2006

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Sister Sophie’s Clinic: John has been coming to this clinic for many years. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays are pediatric days, and the mom...

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On The Way to Sister Sophie’s Clinic: In December, conditions were so dangerous in Port-au-Prince that we didn’t go to one of our regular wo...

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Jackson’s Room: We’re staying in room 17, the same room we were in when Jackson was with us during the month of December. Without his chaise...
Thursday, March 30, 2006

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We’re Baaack! (3-29-06) Finally, I’m being true to the name of my blog again, as we arrived at the Touissaint L’Overture International Airpo...

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Taking Jenny Home Boy, these kids can knock you for a loop. There is something so tragic about Jenny’s eagerness to get back to Port-au-Prin...

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Jenny: From Cleveland to Indy to P-Town (3-27-06) We’re on our way back from Indianapolis, having picked up five-year-old Jenny. Her Clevela...
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Friday, March 17, 2006

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Live From Cleveland . . . It’s Haitian Hearts! Since the beginning of the year, Haitian Hearts has spent a lot of time—more than a month—in ...
Thursday, March 16, 2006

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More Good News! Five-year-old Jenny had her PDA closed today in the cath lab at Cleveland Clinic. This involves threading a spring through h...
Tuesday, March 14, 2006

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A Big Week For Haitian Hearts! Little 4-year-old Marie spent the night in Peoria with us this weekend on her way to St. Louis. She was an an...
Wednesday, March 08, 2006

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Girl One and Girl Two Two little girls, Marie and Jenny, arrived in New York City today with their wonderful escort, Chris. Flights in and o...
Thursday, March 02, 2006

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Cleveland Update Emmanual’s out of the hospital, so we currently have no patient in Cleveland Clinic, although that could change as early as...