Sara's Journey

Honestly, its hard to remember what even happened this week to blog about! Monday and Tuesday I was back at the same hospital, and by Tuesday we needed to change it up and go to a new place the hospital was too exhausting. Both days I had to take care of the 32wk baby who would randomly stop breathing which was traumatizing. He was transferred to a different hospital where they can take better care of him! Wednesday we went to the Crossworld campus which has turned into a tent city. We were suppossed to see a few people, and have a MD with us. Of course we saw about 150 people and had no MD. So we got to play doctors which is actually not fun; its a lot of pressure and you feel like you are doing everything wrong! But we saw everyone who needed to be seen! Then Thursday we went to a different clinic all day. It was well run, and pretty low key. Its been interesting to see all the types of organizations out there right now. Friday I pulled a double shift at night. So I arrived at work at 5 and left at 9:45 in the AM. It was a long night. It included a women who was miscarrying having a major hemorrhage and almost dying. We had to give her a blood transfusion, something I have not done in the states! Her brother donated the blood, he was a match but of course we had no time or capability to test it for diseases so lets hope his blood was clean. Then later that night one of the babies had three seizures, and was choking. I saw it and tried to suction it out! Not cool at all. But the baby is ok!! Then in the morning my friends who were working in the ER had to take care of the father of one of the volunteer nurses. 67yo man who came to volunteer with his nurse daughter. Friday night he gets a fever of 105.6, can't figure out what is wrong and he almost dies. He was airlifted to the USS Comfort. We don't know what happened. Keep him and his family in your prayers.
And of course pray for Haiti. We have had some rain this week, and you think about those people out there with notihng. More rain is coming, and it will be ugly.
One last crazy note, tonight Sean Penn was walking around our campus. He is living in a tent and working with a program to feed children!! I was too nervous to talk to him, but I did walk past and stare.