Ti-John's broken wrist...

an update from Doris:

"Ti John fell from the tree (which, by the way, he had been told hundreds of time not to climb!) and they brought him up to the house, his hand "humped" upon his wrist. I had Dad hold his upper arm and I jerked on his hand and it went in place. Holding it with my thumb and fingers while someone got me a nice painted board (which, by the way, I had just found on the ground the day before and had brought it up on the porch thinking it was too good to leave laying around). Gave his wrist to dad to hold. I went in the bathroom where only the day before I had cleaned out the cupboards in the bathroom and put all the gauze together in a drawer. (I cried there alone with God thanking Him for inserting in my spirit to do that little organizing job and feeling Blessed that I had listened to His direction.)
I went back out and splinted his arm on the board (which, by the way, was exactly the right length!). Okay now for a sling...I went in Brian's room opened the drawer, and told the Lord I needed a "birdeye diaper". The first ones were doubled and the only other ones in the drawer were..............birdeye...... Thanking Jesus again! Gave him some Ibuprofen and asked Ruben if he would please take him to get an x-ray. They spent most of the day at the hospital (editor's note: from an American perspective, things in Haitan hospitals tend to be done on "Haitian time"! A little slower than our hospitals in the states!) only to hear them say "take him to Gonaives". The x-rays showed that both the bones in his wrist were not only broken, but splintered. The next day they took him to Gonaives only to hear they couldn't do anything until next week. Monday, good ole Joceline took him in put him right on IVs and yesterday they did surgery. A Cuban Doctor was there along with Ke Ke Victels' son interning, so that was nice."

(editor's note: The photo is one of Ti-John taken in May, 2009. By the way, in Creole, the insertion of "ti" before a name or word means "little". When Ti-John was brought to E.G.O. as a baby there was already a "John", so he became "Ti-John"... a.k.a. "little John"!)