A bus had hit little Yadissa, fracturing her femur, tibia, and fibula and shattering her pelvis, and making her just one of the thousands suffering in the aftermath of the earthquake and aftershocks that have hit Haiti this month.

But Yadissa was able to get lifesaving treatment thanks to a medical team led by TCU alumnus Dr. Ric Bonnell ’98.

He administered IV fluids and morphine to her as they made the two-hour drive down a bumpy dirt road in the bad of a pick-up truck toward the Port au Prince airport.

There they waited for three hours before being able to board a privately donated plane from Boston to fly her to a hospital in Fort Lauderdale, where she was able to undergo surgery.

Another day, another miracle, says Ric’s brother Jon Bonnell, award-winning chef and owner of Bonnell’s Fine Cuisine restaurant in Fort Worth who used his Facebook page this week to chronicle his brother’s life-saving mission.

“Ric was able to get Yadissa (pictured below) into much better hands in Fort Lauderdale. She has been through the first of several surgeries and is in very good spirits,” he wrote. “Ric took a flight late last night to Santa Domingo, then the first flight back into Haiti this morning. He is back in camp by now and seeing patients again with his team.”

Thanks to the generosity of the Fort Worth community, Jon says six planes have anonymously donated to fly medical teams from Harris Hospital to continue to provide care to those ravages by the quake and its aftermath.

“The plan is to send a team each Saturday until American (Airlines) gets their service running again,” he says. “We’ll keep asking and keep sending in help as long as we can.”

Dr. Bonnell, an ER physician at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth and wife Wendy Heger Bonnell ’95, a pediatrician in Granbury, have been volunteering medical services with an organization called Project Help Haiti for several years now. The organization has numerous hospitals and schools throughout the country, and is led by missionary Steve Mossburg.

“We were fortunate that Steve was already in Haiti with a mission team when the earthquake occurred,” says Wendy.

“Ric and his team will be coordinating with them to provide what medical care they can,” she added. “They are going to be working out of a hospital in Pierre Payen, well north of Port au Prince, and just north of Canaan, the orphanage where we have stayed and run medical missions in the past.

“We hear from people who are on the ground that hundreds of survivors are making their way up the coast by foot, five to a moped, in truck beds, etc. in search of medical care,” she says. “Our hope is that we can mobilize a second team to relieve this one in the next week or so and send additional supplies.”

To help the Bonnells’ efforts in Haiti, send donations to Ruth’s Place Clinic, P.O. Box 1571, Granbury, TX  76048.

For a list of ways other Horned Frogs are reaching out to Haiti, click here.

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