About Me

I am a wound and ostomy nurse practitioner in Syracuse, NY. My church, the First Presbyterian Church in Skaneateles, NY was involved in building a medical clinic in a remote area in the Sudan. This was initiated by John Dau, one of the Lost Boys of Sudan sponsored by our church. Read all about him on http://www.johndaufoundation.org/. My husband, Don Cross, assisted in designing and building the clinic 2 years ago, and it has been open for patient care since then. He recently went over to put in solar panels and a wind turbine to construct cold chain for immunizations, and this is a very exciting event! I went over as part of a 10 member delegation, which included Dr. David Reed of Upstate Medical University Hospital, Dr. Barbara Connor of Auburn Memorial Hospital, 3 medical students named Dan Friedman, Roksanna Sadeghi, and Joe Kowinski, my daughter Lia who did public health surveys, a professional photographer Bruce Strong (http://www.brucestrong.com/) and a videographer named Sean Clausen (see http://www.clinicsrising.com/). I went with a specific interest in wound care. We were there for one and a half weeks and it was an amazing trip!

Friday, March 20, 2009


We flew into Nairobi, Kenya and then had to take a bush plane into Sudan. Sudan is the largest country in Africa and is the same size as one-quarter of the US. This is a shot from the "road map" on the plane, and where you see the plane is actually where we ended up in Sudan, in a village called Duk Payuel, birthplace of John Dau. It is so remote! Fortunately, the bad news we read about in Sudan takes place mostly in Darfur, which is in the northwestern portion of the country, far removed from Duk Payuel.
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