Sunday, March 22, 2009

Practicing Creole

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For all the time I've lived in Haiti , I should be a better speaker of Haitian Creole. But my Creole is broken at best. I was able to co...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

The Difficulty of Getting a Haitian Passport

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A Haitian passport can be very difficult to procure. We have a patient, 16-year-old Ronald, who has been accepted for heart surgery in the U...
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Friday, March 13, 2009

Katina is Patient #137

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Hurray! Thirteen-year-old Katina has been accepted by a medical center in Ohio. This will be her second trip to the United States. Katina ca...
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Haitian Creole

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There were Haitians in the house last night--five of them. I loved hearing their laughter and their Creole; it was like a party. Haitian Cre...
Monday, March 02, 2009

Heurese in Peoria

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One of our most recent Haitian Hearts patients, Heurese, is continuing her recuperation from surgery with us. As you can see in the above p...
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Thursday, February 26, 2009

Is the United States Racist?

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I'm in Florida today, which is as close as I'm going to get to Haiti for awhile. It's a good time to contemplate a couple of thi...
Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Carnival!

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Nobody does Mardi Gras or Carnival, like Haiti. It's a whole season of partying, culminating today, in Fat Tuesday. The whole country wi...
Sunday, February 22, 2009

What's the Solution?

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Sometiemes when we've been in Haiti in a clinic, the waiting room overflowing with sick and poor children, I want to scream, "Why d...
Friday, February 20, 2009

Katia Needs a Job

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Katia, pictured above with my dad, had successful surgery in Joliet in 2004. She had a heart damaged by rheumatic fever. I vividly remember ...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Walls

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In the past year, my 77-year-old father Ed has been to Haiti twice. These have been his first trips to the island nation. Each time, my husb...
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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Host Families

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Haitian Hearts could not do what it does--bring children to the States for life saving surgery--without the generous contributions of host f...
Sunday, February 08, 2009

Heurese Update

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Heurese, the young woman who had surgery a couple of months ago in Cleveland, is doing very well. She is continuing to recover in Cleveland....
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Thursday, February 05, 2009

Frandy

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Life is very hard for poor people in poor countries. All their energy and attention is focused on survival: getting enough food to eat, hav...
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Friday, January 30, 2009

Stop and Think Some More

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I've been railing to anyone who will listen--as I'm sure many have--about the outrageous greed, arrogance, and even criminality of t...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Stop and Think

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The picture of the above little girl is one my husband took on his most recent trip to Haiti. She lives in Carrefour, a large slum adjacent ...
Monday, January 12, 2009

Patient #136

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One of the things that I'm most proud about John and Haitian Hearts for is the commitment made to patients. So despite my numbering Rona...
Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Upstream and Downstream

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Do you know the difference between upstream and downstream work? Sometimes they're called justice and mercy work. Upstream or justice wo...
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Thursday, January 01, 2009

Bring on 2009!

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Whoopee! Happy New Year's everyone. It's a very big day in Haiti, as January 1 is also their independence day. In 1804 on this date,...
Sunday, December 21, 2008

"Where there is great love, there are always miracles."

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Heurese had successful heart surgery at Cleveland Clinic on Tuesday. She had her faulty aortic valve replaced with an artificial one and an...
Thursday, December 11, 2008

Live From Haiti: A Recap

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I started Live from Haiti three years ago. My husband John and I were spending several months each year in Haiti, and rather than just keep ...
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