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La lune / the moon

This morning we could still see the moon while the sun came up. Daniel said: "jodia li pap prale lakay non manman". The moon is not going home today mom!

Lab exam

So I found this woman in front of the surgery door waiting to get in. I asked her to have a seat and wait for the nurse to come out.  Later I found her standing right before the same door again. She had something in her hand. A cup with....urine. She was standing in front of the wrong door! She had to go to the lab.

Family planning

A young woman with 2 children came to the clinic. She used to get an "every-3 months- shot" for not getting pregnant. Her husband recently went outside Haiti to work so she would not be needing any family planning at this moment. But her shot would still be valid for another month. And that's the reason she had an infection of her private parts....so she told me.

12 kids

A mother told me the father of her children died last year. Today she told me her husband was sick and admitted at a voodoo doctors place. So I ask her about this guy. Well, she says, the father of 6 of my children died. And I have 12 kids all together.  But only with one father. I am lost.

Baby with a lot of gas

A father and a mother come to the clinic with their 1 moth old baby. The baby has a lot of gas I notice. It's like firework! The father talks about