This place is such a buzz this morning. The AC machines for the army tents on our campus just seem to pulsate with a steady buzz. Everyone is loading up the trucks for their destinations for the day, getting ready to go through the gate and enter into the chaos on the streets of Port-au-Prince, which is most likely a chaos that is normal in any crowded third world city with the added bonus of swerving around piles of consolidated rubble that has crumbled out onto the streets and taking detours where demolition cranes are starting to move in to take down buildings. The helicopters keep buzzing over us this morning too. Just a reminder that I don't know a fraction of the magnitude of what is going on in this city right now.
This week has held a lot of new working experiences. Diquini Hospital early in the week. Wednesday, a makeshift nursing clinic at the CrossWorld campus in Bolosse, where we saw maybe 120 people and sent a few urgent cases to the hospital. Thursday, an outpatient clinic in Pernier, which ended up being a pretty chill, slow-paced day. And Friday, we tagged onto the team going to CDTI Hospital, the most prestigious private hospital in PAP that has now opened up for free public healthcare with an ER and 12 large tents (that is the med-surg unit) set up in it's front yard. It was a fun day for me - attributed mostly to the fact that my Creole allows me to have conversations and somehow the Haitians light up with shock when they hear Creole tumble out of my mouth. And somehow they always end up laughing at me, which just is enjoyable for everyone involved. So Lisa and I took on about 15 patients each (mostly post-amputations) and just jumped into the chaos. How's that for nurse, patient ratio? A round of IV antibiotics and vicodin anyone?
Sara will be wiped today as she bravely went out to pull a double night shift at our beloved Diquini hospital last night.
We are hanging in here. Trying to fight the guilt of resting when we need to and trying to laugh a lot. We've been throwing the sarcasm around with the Portland Fire team who is staying here, which helps. A little bit of Northwest culture is nice.
We will need to starting pulling together our plans for March, so keep us in your prayers about this; that the right plans will come to pass.
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Ryna,
Know that God is with you in all the experiences you are having. The scenes are incredible and there are still people here asking and praying. Thanks for keeping up with this blog. Also Lisa texted last night at 2a.m. about the aftershocks and we will all be praying for you girls now that you are sleeping outside. Please be sure to take the rest you need and don't feel guilty. We are the ones who should feel that.
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