Dear Family and Friends,
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
The wounded keep on coming. I was in the OR all day until 8PM when we ran out of recovery room space, RN’s, and external fixation devices. While operating this AM I heard about the 2nd earthquake from Caroline’s text just as our nurse anesthetist Bill Ragon (Jackson, TN) got a message from his son. Turns out Clint Doiron was in PAP at that time, on the ground, and told me there wasn’t much to feel. Have no idea what this means in terms of more injured.
We are in controlled chaos, but Clint describes PAP as the worst possible of everything. Wounded certainly can’t make it out on their own and roads in city other than the main road are mostly impassable.
Sisters of Mercy came in with a van of multiple injuries. Nuns are teachers and didn’t know what to do for medical services. Clint and I are off to check on their people in a few minutes.
Injuries are 90%+ lower extremities, most with open wounds. We have antibiotics and are giving them freely.
We have clean water, plenty of food and many people who want to help. We have docs doing nursing care, because we have more of us than nurses.
More later,
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