What I do every day, January 15

After making two very long dangerous trips to the mountains, and confronting a hostile gang, we rescued the young foreign woman who I mentioned previously was missing.

I have a picture below (scroll down) of our getaway.

It is a tremendous satisfaction that this is solved and she is free, She is on the way to her own country now. But we are totally frazzled as I write this.

One of the things that saved us from the hostile gang was that one of the members happened recognized me as saving the life of his mother in 2009.

I cannot possibly remember the many surgical interventions we have managed for people in dire straights over these many years, but it was lucky he remembered me. It also helped us that a second gang, respectful of our community work, showed up and roared them back. I can assure you it is all unnerving as it unfolds.

On another note, I have permission of the mom to show show this picture of her and her daughter (Jeannine) with hydrocephalus. Scroll down below if you would like to meet Jeannine. It is disturbing and necessary to look with compassion. The mom has heroic love.

We have found one of the two remaining neurosurgeons in Haiti, who can try to help by placing a shunt. We are organizing the needed CT scan of her brain, and will soon schedule a surgery date.

Please thank God with us for these positive advances!