Updates

I took the time tonight to go back through all of the posts and edit them, trying to add detail to the days when we were too busy to blog.

We feel a bit exhausted, and very lonesome for our team members and all of those we met in Haiti. It is amazing to me how quickly we bonded together as a team, and how God provided the right mix of people on the team. Highly qualified orthopedic surgeons, so desparately needed, physical therapists, also desperately needed by the patients at the hospital, translators, desperately needed by the rest of the team so that we could carry out our work, and nurses who learned so much from the people we served. And those who came along to organize and distribute supplies, who ended up being invaluable, wearing many hats - massaging limbs, helping to change dressings, running for supplies, being everywhere all at one time.

It is hard not to look at the big picture in Haiti, at the probability of epidemic-proportion disease among the refugees living in tent cities, at the patients who have undergone surgeries and amputations who will need follow-up care and further surgeries to be able to use their limbs, at those who are most assuredly going to lose limbs that surgeons have tried so hard to save. Who will go to help these people? Will you go back? Will I?