Feb 20, 2010 – 9:00am
It’s been a long night, but I definitely felt more organized & confident in what I was doing & how things are run. The people I work with give me a good laugh.
I’ve never been so thankful for the food and water brought to us. I’ve never had the feeling of not knowing when my next warm meal will come. We get one warm meal a day, and usually there are MRE’s (made ready to eat). Then I snack in between. Some plane brought in burger king that night & it tasted oh so good.
I didn’t really know how to respond when a patient said to me “America has lots of food and we have very little.” What do you say when it’s the truth and it’s not fair at all. We have people having gastric bypass while people go hungry everyday here. I’m not poking fun at obesity, just making an observation in contrast.
Another amazing thing is SHOWERING! Even though it was only a 2 minute cold shower, I felt like I was in an herbal essence commercial because it felt so good. The curtain was flapping in the wind, but I didn’t even think about it.
13I’m learning some French Creole. It’s nice to be able to talk to my patients more directly. The thing I’ve noticed is all the amputees & paralyzed patients. There is not going to be set-up and care they need once they leave. Lots of them don’t even have homes anymore.
We had a 3-year old boy come over and eat half of Klaire’s (another nurse) rice. He was adorable. They said he was found naked in the dumpster. He’s an orphan now.
I pray that a solution will be found for these people.