This Morning

Spent a quiet morning creating medication flowsheets to tackle our large medication needs with the current chicken pox outbreak. Currently fighting with the printer, so have yet to successfully print off the flowsheets. Learned some new printer-related Creole vocabulary while trying to explain the situation to our nurse Audette.

While organizing the office later that morning, Richardson (one of the older kids who loves to spend time upstairs and speaks some English) came to me and asked me to come take a picture. He said something about Michelor dying and Miss Audette asking me to get my camera. Curious and confused, I grabbed my camera and went to where she was teaching the older kids. Standing on the table was Mich, wrapped from head to toe in toilet paper. Miss Audette was teaching a bible lesson on Lazarus, where Jesus raises him from the dead in John 11.






Having my camera in hand, I wandered downstairs to take a few photos. Poor Markendy and Mawens are the latest toddlers to experience the chicken pox, taking our total numbers to thirteen infected. What an adventure ...




Upstairs in the Infant Room, we are trying very hard to limit exposure to the virus and the nannies are doing a great job of keeping things clean and not cross-contaminating between the Infant and Toddler Rooms. While most of the infants are resting at present, little Miss Leika is enjoying a bottle of the good stuff.