A few weeks ago we learned that we were not the only displaced missionary-type people in the teeming metropolis of Waco, Tejas. That was pretty surprising. Another man who has lived in Haiti the last four years now finds himself healing in Waco. At the time it seemed too soon to try to contact the person based on the horrible loss he'd just suffered, and our position as total strangers to him. I made a mental note to try to find him later.
Last Thursday I woke up with him heavy on my heart and confirmed his email address with the friend who told me he was in Waco. I fired off an email asking if he would have any interest in meeting for dinner. Later that day around 3pm our son-in-law called to say a man had left a note at the YMCA (where our SIL works) asking to get in touch with us and could Chris pass that message to us. Come to find out we were looking for him, the same time he was looking for us and God matched our timing exactly to the day, and even down to the same hours.
Tonight we met with him for dinner. He shared his January 12, 2010 story. He spoke of the feeling of riding a building as it went down to the ground. He talked about being trapped and helpless and waiting on rescue. He talked about the silence right after the earthquake, the eerie silence. Mostly he talked about losing the love of his life, his wife of multiple decades, his princess. He shared memories and stories and the love and adoration in his voice brought tears. Like so many others, he is grieving what he lost, thankful for what he still has, and trying to find a way back home, back to Haiti.
Please pray for J. and others like him who grieve the loss of their precious spouses. We were more than blessed to meet this gentle and kind man tonight.
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Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave to wealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to have done nothing and succeeded at it. -erwin lutzer
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Does anyone have contacts at the Mayo Clinic in MN...I found this information
http://www.mayoclinic.org/brachial-plexus/rsttreatment.html
I will pray that a way is made for Amanda to get function and relief.
Denise
Denise there is a Haitian Am. cardiologist at Mayo named Rowlens Melduni. He is headed back down to Haiti 5/21-30 with a group called Project Haiti Heart. They will have a Gen. surgeon from ATL with them, base out of F. Parisien, but staff HUEH for 2 nights. Still looking for a CRNA. Not sure if that info is helpful.
@Troy and Tara : I am glad you hooked up with this man. Think God had anything to do with it?lol. Wonder what/ why God connected you? How cool.
Karen
Another possibility--see today's Boston Globe an article about an ortho doc at Mass General Hospital in Boston named Robert Mclaughlin who moved mountains to get help for one of his Haitian patients. Surely it would be worth an email... Terri Urban
Oh my goodness. My heart goes out to him and his family.
J is in my prayers. God bless him.
Praying and thankful that, even now, He gives beauty for ashes.
I replied to the email address on the blog this morning, but I haven't heard anything back. I am the host mom that had Sonel (the boy that had club foot surgery on both feet). I had to find a surgeon, myself, for Sonel. I would be willing to make calls to try to find a doctor for this girl and we would love to be her host family. My heart goes out to this girl. My mom has had nerve damage,from her back, for 11 years. She will be having a procedure in the next few weeks to try to relieve it. Please let me know if you still need a doctor for her so I can start making phone calls on Monday. Hopefully we would find someone in Indianapolis.
Brenda -
As of this moment (Easter Sunday) many emails and contacts have begun to be made but no Doctor or Hospital has yet confirmed to do it free of charge ... we have good leads in a few states and are moving forward with all leads until one becomes a sure thing.
how wonderful you found each other- only people who have experienced the same event can really relate to each other, perhaps through your relationship with him, you can support each other in your new pathways
Just read the post about the 20yr old who needs ortho/spine care. I left a msg at my son's ortho doc's office, he is at Duke (NC) and specializes in spine repair. I am praying he calls back!
BTW, his name is Dr. George Charron, Raleigh, NC
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