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Show -1- A FRIEND wrote recently asking, "Please send me your monthly Newsletter." How we wish we could! It is four months since the last one went out, and it always seems that the more there is going on at the Mission the less time we have to stop and tell our friends about it. Sunday morning, March 4 - Fr Liebler went into the church to get ready for the first devotions of the day, and saw a car parked by the as yet unfinished clinic. Second glance: familiar. Third glance: the "Caduceus" emblem, showing that the car belonged to a doctor. This is news! A Doctor whose middle name is Kind proved that it is not only Indians whose names are descriptive of the person; he had driven down from Blanding, 25 miles away, in the wee small hours, and delivered the first baby to be born in our future clinic. Hurriedly we had readied a bed when Lucille came looking for help; complications were anticipated and the Doctor called by telephone - and it was just as well, for the baby came with the cord about his neck ("better to be born that way than to die that way!") and he had, of all things, six toes and six fingers where five ought to be. So, "Dr. Kind" did everything that was called for in the premises, and wouldn't even stop for a cup of coffee before going back home after it was all over. So came the first baby. The baby's daddy has had even tougher luck than most Navahos with his cars and pickups - he wrecks them at an alarming rate, and he didn't seem to think it was funny that he named the baby "Rex" ! |
