Thursday, April 01, 2010

Frontline on Haiti

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A couple nights ago, we watched Frontline as it covered the affects of the earthquake in Haiti. Wow, what an aptly named program. The video ...
Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Successful Surgery for Medjina!

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We are so happy to report that 7-year-old Medjina Bontemps had successful surgery to replace her mitral valve at St. Louis Children's Ho...
Monday, February 22, 2010

Prisoners

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For the last six months, I have been doing some research into the lives of those who were U.S. Prisoners of War in the Philippines during Wo...
Saturday, February 20, 2010

Live From Haiti?

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It's been three years since I've actually been Live From Haiti. Hard to believe. Three years ago yesterday John and I flew home from...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

Marie Myrtha Amazan: Rest In Peace

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We received some sad news the other day. One of our patients, beautiful Marie Amazan died. We don't think her death was directly related...
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Sunday, February 07, 2010

Suffering

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Our cousin is home from Haiti now. It seems like most of the teams go down for a week or at most two. I know of other teams going and hopefu...
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Sunday, January 31, 2010

Sullivans on the Scene

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John's cousin's daughter, Emily, a newly minted nurse anesthetist, arrived in Haiti a few days ago. She is working at a hospital in ...

Do You Hear Me Now?

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My mom told me she thought, "Do you hear me now?" would be a good title for an article about Haiti, and she's right. Because f...

Haitians Helping Haitians

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As I mentioned on the Haitian Hearts website , we are going to provide earthquake relief by sending money directly to the people affected. T...
Thursday, January 21, 2010

More Survivors Amid the Death and Wreakage

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We find out about people in Haiti in bits and pieces from various places. We were very worried about Haitian Hearts' patient Willy Fortu...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Bless the Children

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We received the sad news today that 10-year-old Dieula Jean Charles perished in the earthquake. Dieula was one of the people that our friend...
Monday, January 18, 2010

More Solidarity Than Looting

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I am a member of Bob Corbett's Haiti listserv, which has been an invaluable source of information on Haiti before and after the earthqua...
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Alive! Alive Alive!

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We are getting more good news on many of our Haitian Hearts friends and patients. Katie Cesar is alive! Suze LaPierre is alive! Marie Myrtha...
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Sunday, January 17, 2010

Who Should We Blame?

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Pat Robertson's comment about Haiti being cursed because of a deal its founding fathers made with the devil is getting a lot of play. U...
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A Friend on the Ground

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Our friend Mary Hurley, who for years has lived six months of each year in Haiti, arrived there yesterday. As you can imagine, she knows man...
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Saturday, January 16, 2010

Heurese!

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We found out this morning that Heurese is alive along with her family! Heurese is a 30-year-old woman whom Haitian Hearts brought to the Uni...
Friday, January 15, 2010

Haiti and the United States

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Here are the things I am feeling positively about regarding the United States and its response to the earthquake in Haiti: The United States...
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Good News!

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Frandy and his family are alive! John received a phone call from Frandy this afternoon. The call broke up frequently, but John was able to l...
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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Where is Frandy?

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We are worried about numerous people in Haiti, including Frandy Dejean. A poor boy, he grew up on the side of a mountain in Carrefour. He ca...
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The Work Continues

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I've had a few people ask me if the earthquake is going to change the mission of Haitian Hearts. The answer is no. Our focus will contin...