Saturday, October 13, 2007

Ok so Saturday started really early because we got up to say goodbye to the first half of the medical team to leave. After that, we were all up so it was fellowship time and coffee time for the coffee drinkers while we waited for breakfast to be ready. I decided to go down and wake up Sonel since I was awake I figured he should be too. After breakfast we kind of chilled a while and worked on some odds and ends organizing wise while we waited for the new people to show up. The surgery team thought they were going to have a half day today because it was Saturday, but unfortunately their last case took almost 6 hours, it was a little girl that got really burned and they were doing a major skin graft on her. They made it through and it looks like she is going to recover just fine. Another fly in the easy half day ointment was that several babies from the baby orphanage got taken to minor, to be put on ivys and oxygen because they were really dehydrated and having respiratory issues. It wound up being three of them, which meant that a bunch more people got called to work the night shift. I was planning on going to PDP tomorrow morning for junior church at the Orphanage, so I volunteered to help in the recovery room. I spent most of Saturday just being lazy and hanging around, playing with the Heaven’s waiting room children, the recovery room patients, and Sonel, because he got to be in his chair for a long time. Erin and Rolgard decided to take the Heaven’s waiting room children on a train ride today so that was fun to participate in and watch and chase around with Sonel. I even spent some time in one of the chairs, just like a big kid. J The older ones in the baby orphanage even got to join in on the fun. They did not seem to enjoy it as much as the others. They all got to ride for about 30 minutes before it started to rain and then we had to rush to get them under cover before it rained. After that I just spent some more time with Sonel and then headed upstairs to chat with some people while they used my pc. Erin decided to upload some pictures to Walmart photo center to have the developed and brought in when the next group comes in. She seems to have been doing that for quite some time. It is a really good idea, because she gives the pictures to the Haitians that are in them, and that is a big thing for them because they get to have pictures for their homes or whatever. After that we ate dinner and then just hung out for the rest of the night, randomly visiting the patients in recovery. I found out that all I had to do for the overnight recovery room shift is sleep in the recovery room so that if the nurse needed any help there was some there for me. So I decided to lay down around 930 and see if I could maybe get some sleep. Peace.