Hospital Video and Random Thoughts

I am sitting on the plane typing this on my little iPhone, speeding
back to my family with a new appreciation of the blessings we all
share, of the many things we take for granted each minute of our
lives. Clean water, safe housing, abundant food, and medical care
that can fix just about anything just 10 minutes away. We don't just
simply have it good, or evan great, our lives in our community called
the USA is umbelievably, fantastically, over the top wonderful.

I am attaching a short video of the hospital. It consists of two
buildings with a third several hundred yards away mainly for those
recovering and less injured. The two buildings you see here are for
triage, surgery and recovery. The trailers are actually the icu.

The situation is best described as controled chaos. The most amazing
thing is the concentrated effort being put forth by the team of
medical professionals. More on that in another post.

Suffice it to say, there is death all around but hope and caring on a
scale that is off the chart. So many people are being provided
critical help, without which they would simply die. This hospital is
not on the front lines but is the next stop after the front lines.

Everything is in short supply except for the desire to help. Sterile
saline, iv antibiotics, antiseptic, anasthetic all in short supply or
non-existant. Complex orthopedic surgeries for example being performed
sometimes with only a shot of morphine. It is truly like a war zone.

But a war zone without the bullets. Where we were at was incredibly
safe. We saw no indication of any disturbances. In a discussion I had
with a member of the Washington state search and rescue, he confirmed
that there was, in this locale, no safety concerns.

We were very busy during our short visit. I was even pressed into
service to help bring a patient in and too help wih crowd control at
the main entrance. It was all I could do to not leave and stay. But we
were not prepared to stay and had to depart in order to make it back
to Barhona before dark. The airport has no runway lights and closes
at dark.

Unfortunately I do not have many photos to post yet as the rest are on
another camera. Even then. We were so busy discussing the situation
and the facilities I had little time to shoot photos. I will post the
others soon. I need to process everything that happened today.

This will post as soon as i jave cell service on the states. Please
excuse the typos.More in a while.

Sean