8 Keeling brothers

TREVOR BACK FROM HAITI

I have just got back from Haiti. It has been a really moving experience.

I have been working with some of the most dedicated, professional and caring nurses and medics. When a patient with cholera comes in to the hospital their chances of survival immediately increase by 20%. Those who walk in are taken to the ward. Those who are stretchered in are already near death. The most skilled nurses in the facility get 2 intravenous lines up and pour in up to 6 litres of fluids. From being virtually dead they sit up and talk and are taken to the ward next door where they recover over 2 days.

We have been working 13½ hour days in 37⁰ Centrigrade. The hospital (Birsy) is a collection of 8 large tents connected by plyboard walkways elevated on brieze blocks. It is staffed by a total of about 30, a mixture of ex-pat doctors & nurses, local doctors & nurses, translators and orderlies.
Dr Trevor and the other staff 

 

Finucane diaries #2

Well, Trevor has been as good as his word and has word-processed those Finucane diaries. They're now MUCH easier to read and you can even search for words in them (if you know how!)

Click here to read them.

Click here to see the original posting with the original hand-writing.

Note: The diary is by Jane Frances Finucane, and they were written when she lived in Fiji, which was still reputed to have cannibals. Her daughter Ruve Finucane, who I (George) knew, had just been born. She was Grandpa's aunt and Jane would be his maternal grandmother. That would make her the great-great-granny of the children of the 8 brothers

evening at george's

yes a fine evening at Georges with shepherds pie followed by all getting our kit off and hanging it on the shower hotrail. i for one will sadly not make it to georges exit party as i will be on the way back from meribel that evening.

love you all - dr trev