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Show 5 holiday or a journey. Beaming, she said "Y ou take me back. I want to go to Mission hospital at Bluff. I will have baby today. People said to me, go to other hospital, but I say to them, no, only to Mission." We urged a safer road, but she sat. Two hours later, after our class and hasty ministrations to the sick of the neighborhood, she was still sitting, and no amount of persuasion could change her mind. We have no doctor now." "I want Catherine, she knows." "You cannot wade the wash - the horse is gone now." "I can wade it." "Maybe we will get stuck in the muddy trails, your baby · might come before we can get to the Mission." "I go with you. I had just a few pains, not very bad yet." Who could stand out against such resolution? We had to carry spare gas as well as our medical kit, but together the three of us waded across to the jeep; over 60 miles we splashed and slid, racing against time but trying not to bump unnecessarily. Time and again the mud made the headlight I lenses opaque and we had to wipe them off and proceed. The moon was up when we got to the clinic, put the woman to bed just to get her up again to deliver a beautiful baby girl. '8lEFORE another Newsletter comes out ~ we shall be making up our lists of Summer workers. Do the above adventures intrigue you? Would you like a closer participation in them? During the vacation months we can use a limited number of volunteers - High School seniors and up. It is not all high adventure - there are dishes to wash and weeds to hoe, but most of those who come want to come again. Now is the time to write for application blank; address "Summer Work Directors." And of course we need permanent Staff members: priests, doctors and J teachers. The opportunities are unlimited if we had the workers to put into the expanding fields. |
