Karma payment plan

My soul feels rejuvenated today, and once again I feel like I could do this for ever. I come home from working at CDTI and I have one of those meaning full talks with someone that you know you will remember forever.  A sunny day I walked back to the hotel I am now staying at (what luxury, thank you!) with a local friend. You see a lifetime of need in a 6-block walk, but now unlike when I started there are now street venders, were once there were only the dead and ruble. I am in awe of the human resilience, of the spirit and of the power of community.

 

Its getting closer every minute to when I said I would leave and every second closer its getting harder and harder to say good bye. The hospital im at now needs crutches and I know were to get them it will just take me time, im running out of time though. I started working at the CDTI (which is different then university hospital, someone really needs to get an NGO in here to connect and organize all the NGOs) there I have run into one of the Canadian teams I worked with at UM/medishare, and one of the best nurses I have ever worked with in Boston. There is much hugging and hellos. I pick up sandwiches on the street corner and run into the Haitian doctor I worked with the other day. She stops her car and tells me about one of the patients I worked closely with her on at the community hospital. The young patient is doing well but needs to get her medicine or she might lose her eye. It breaks my heart a little for its one more place and one more thing I wont is able to follow up on. I will try to stay true to my word though and try to get out on a military flight wed. I’m working the over night shift tonight as pretty much the only nurse, other nights there was no one rto watch the patients. I am no longer in charge of a million things and focus my energy on direct patient care, I love it.  But sadly I think it needs to be my last night and day of work. Well I will try to sleep now for a couple hours.