So many people!!! Hot! Dirty! Smelly! No one seems happy. So much noise. Will I ever understand this language? Life is hard here. Laughing out loud, some things never change!! Sickness, illness, disease and death are part of every Haitians everyday life.

My first heart-break at BMC was when we told a young teenager and her mother that she had AIDS. She didn't have long to live as every breath was a struggle. As I write this prayer letter, I have no doubt that she is now in heaven with her Saviour. There have been a myriad of diseases that I have seen and treated. I have been blessed by the thankfulness of the people, when they know you just want to help. I held a 7-month old little boy as he took his last breath and then the angels swept him away. They took with them a piece of me. I have seen a horrible case of Anthrax. The man came to the clinic with the face of the elephant man. He was treated daily for a while and now he is being treated weekly. He looks like a human being again. His smile melts my heart. Last week, he took my hand and blessed me and thanked me. What a sweet soul he is. I love "well baby clinic" day. Mums and Dads come in with their healthy beautiful babies and there is such love all around. It has been very dry here the past few weeks and so we have seen very little typhoid, but when the rains start again, we will be inundated with typhoid.

Filariasis (elephantiasis) is very common here. We are starting a clinic just for the treatment and support of people with this problem. We have TB clinic on Fridays and see a few hundred TB patients each month. Along with free medications, we give the TB patients food. Rice, beans and oil. It is important that they eat right.

The fees we charge are very reasonable. Last week, I paid for a clinic visit for someone who had no money. For the visit, 3 lab tests and 4 medications it cost me less than US$5.00 Not too bad. We see anywhere from 100 to over 200 patients in one day. We have no doctor. All the patients are seen by a nurse, who orders the labs and then the treatments. We have a pharmacy and we barely charge them our cost. We get most of our medications from Europe. Most of it is dirt-cheap. We start our day with devotions, while the patients are in Chapel. Then the day begins. Each patient is weighed and their temperature taken. Then they wait to see the nurse, then they wait for the lab and then they wait for the nurse again. Then they wait to pay for their medications and then they wait for their medications. As you can tell it takes up the biggest part of their day to come and see us. They start arriving at 4am, as it is first come, first served.

I hope you have enjoyed reading this letter. I have enjoyed writing it. There is so much more I want to tell you about.I guess you will just have to visit me and experience it for yourself!

I appreciate your prayers. Please pray for our Haitian workers here. They work so very hard and then go home and work hard again. Remember: Prudence, Marilinie, Job, Enel, Marcot, Jacqulin, Nickette, Judith, Mary Mart, Edwise, Kennyson, William and many more.

These are just a few of those who have come to mean a lot to me. Keep my family in your prayers as my grandchildren grow up without me. I miss them. I miss you. I love you all.