God's Hand is on the Team

Racing to complete the last row of blocks on the west wall of the new dining hall-I was caught up in the tyranny of the urgent. I heard the cry that Donna McCulloch was hurt and possibly had a broken wrist. I immediately jumped off the scaffold to discover Donna had fallen at the work site and indeed her wrist was broken. Karen Nordahl immediately responded with an ice pack and we splinted her wrist with a 2 x 2 board from the work site. I would soon learn that God was in control and would provide for his faithful servant. Her first words after the accident were “I can’t finish my job” not that I am in pain or look how deformed my wrist looks. Mark White informed us how long it would take to get proper care and he told us it would probably be a couple of days. He also told me he could not guarantee high quality of care by American standards.

Our prayer chain was initiated, e-mails went out and God would provide care and comfort for his good and faithful servant Donna. Being of limited faith, God would soon teach me a valuable lesson. Our missionary Mark White called for their local doctor who was on vacation and could not see us. The orthopedic doctor’s office was full and would not take an appointment for the afternoon. We embarked to Mandeville and we were seen by a very kind and competent orthopedic surgeon. Upon entering the office we heard strains of Christian music and were immediately comforted. He agreed with our diagnoses of a Colles Fracture. He sent us to an X-Ray Facility and told us we would probably wait a couple of hours. Upon entering the facility we saw a sign that said x-rays would be interpreted four to five hours after they were taken. Twenty minutes later we had our x-ray in hand, talked to the Board Certified Radiologist from the US named Dr Chamberlain, and were traveling back to the orthopedic surgeon’s office. Dr. Mullings and his kind wife administered a Bier’s Block for anesthesia and were able to set the right radial and ulna fractures essentially pain free. A cast was applied and we walked out of the office shortly after four. Our missionary proclaimed he wanted to join our church’s prayer chain. What a miracle we had witnessed today. Praise God.

Paul Bice