Murder, Tragedy

The following post is gross and graphic so you may want to click off of this blog entry and wait for the next one. I have debated for two days now whether or not to write about this but ultimately I decided to write on our blog so our readers can know what we are dealing with and what at least one of our needs is.

On Sunday morning I got called out of church because we needed to transport two patients from our hospital to Tegucigalpa. I went over to the hospital to see what was going on. Apparently, a man had been physically abusing his wife for several years so she left him. He had been drinking Sunday morning as the smell of alcohol was strong on him. He went to where his wife was staying and told her to come home with him. She said, "No." He then became angry and took out his machete, cut her fingers off first, then her arms and then he gave a fatal blow to the neck.

Her brother tried to come to her defense and he received two machete blows to the skull causing long deep cuts in his scalp and possible bony damage. Then the man, the husband, went out to a bridge nearby, put his left arm on the rail and cut off his hand which then fell into the water below.

Both men were brought to the hospital. The man who cut his hand off had low blood pressure, probably due to blood loss, and we started two IV's. I am sure had our hospital not been here he would have died. We then loaded them into a Land Rover and took them to Tegucicalpa. See the pictures below. If you read this, please pray that the Lord will supply us with an ambulance. Also pray for this family.




The man who severed his own hand from his wrist.





Preparing for a two hour ride in the back of a Land Rover. We need an ambulance!




The brother of the deceased wife. The red "hat" is bandaging.