"We are the world... We are the children..."

Saturday night we were coming into the clinic and we got report on the pts... I was orienting one of the nurses that flew in with me to the night routine and the pt's were all getting ready for bed. We passed 8pm medications to opur hospital pts. Those pt's have injuries so severe they cannot just be sent home, they need IV antibiotics, fluids, pain medication around the clock, aggressive physical therapy, food and water, drsg changes and learning how to live w/o arms, legs, and with casts, external fixators in place. They are all pretty complecated cases when you read their history... Not to mention the PTSD from being in rubble for up to 13days! Lossing parents, siblings, babies, and other loved ones.

Anyway after we did the first round on pt's the interpreters (which are two young men in med school in PAP that no longer exsists) were setting up their laptop and screens for a the evening movie... all the sudden I heard the "We are the world: 25 for Haiti" playing. All the 28 pt's raised their hands and started swaying them... I am left to wonder "Do they know that they are the world to many of us?" "They are the children that are loved by so many." "Are we willing to embrass them and help them know that?" "They are the children of a Father that loved them enough to give them the most perfect and never ending grace and love?" Somehow I think they do by knowing they have survived.... they quake brought horrible devastion to them but they are here in the world and we are also here in Haiti making them "our world".

I am so impressed with this clinic, all we are doing, the passion of so many I am working with even before the quake... it really is humbling to see. A nurse that had the day off yesterday came in and did pedicures on all the woman... trust me that makes you feel like you are "world"

Off to sleep... peace...