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To start with I will say I am doing well.  I have the greatest admiration for everyone I have met down here.  The staff at the medishare hospital are some of the best people I have come across.  The staff at ever hospital I have ran into also inspire me. Every were I go I run into people selflessly working at helping. The local people are also very amazing, resilient strong and kind.  I have come across individuals with new ideas. Water trucks that make water from the air, filtration devises being passed out, food being distributed, medical needs being met under the most strenuous situations. can-do, life flight, pure filters all little organizations having big impacts. .

 

The other day I woke up crawled out of my tent and sat on a rock over looking the rice fields and hills in Abraham Haiti.  I was there for one day, dropped off by a helicophter with one other nurse a box of dressing supplies and a tent. As the helicopter landed the people came running. Nick and I immediately set up a little wound care clinic on the ground in front of our little tent.  The locals so interested in everything we do and say. A crowed stays around us long after we are done caring for everyone.  Eventually it disperses and we eat MREs under the stars. I try to sleep on hard ground. In the distance drumming and singing energizes the air. The locals celebrate into the early morning. The next morning the crowd is back and nick and I sit in the middle. Dressing wounds as they come in and practicing Creole. The locals hear the helicopter before I can and their excitement grow. I wave good by and give hugs.  I have time for reflection as I sit in the helicopter watching the destruction below on our flight back towards medishare. Something so profound about flying close over the palace and the comfort wile listening to cold play. We land Nick goes back to working immediately. He is an inspiration, organized and compassionate driven and Knowledgeable
. I go to one of the only hotels in port-o prince and relax. I run into my driver who just the other day really helped me out. I hade a box of meds that needed to reach an individual. I cared the box and 20 dollars around the air field. I left the meds with a US army man, and kept my fingers crossed that it would make it to the right place. Fritz my driver came threw. Locating the army man with using limited english, picking it up and finding the money stuffed in the box he came threw and handing it off to the right place. Today I go to community hospital to work.  i have had a lot of requests to come home soon. i have been here now about 20 days and every day it gets harder and harder to leave, but i know i need to so i will be back in