Seniorita Enfermera: Brethren Volunteer Service Nurse in 1962 Las Delicias, Ecuador: digging bullets, delivering babies, machete cuts, extreme unction - Paperback

by Gordon W. Martin (Editor), Geraldine Rae Martin (Author)

After graduating from Samaritan Hospital School of Nursing, Ashland, Ohio, Gerry Martin enters Brethren Volunteer Service training, then is flown to Quito where she lives learns Spanish by immersion with an Ecuadorian family and lives the next two years in the coastal jungle where she learns the Ecuadorian Indian culture in the tiny village of Las Delicias. She practices nursing at twenty-one years old by herself; sews machete cuts, digs out bullets, and delivers twenty-eight babies without help.

Author Biography

Geraldine Deany Martin is a registered nurse, natural health enthusiast, and amateur stage actress, and performs theatre, voice-overs, and commercials. She has taught prose, poetry and theatre to middle school students. She has two adult children and three grand-children, and lives in western North Carolina with her husband, a retired engineer, and college instructor