You would not believe the amazing people we've met. There are many contradictions here in Haiti with life oozing from the open wound of poverty and misery--hope and happiness strangely mixed in the heat of every moment. All nine of us have rolled up our sleeves to help. We can't communicate well but the Haitian Drs. Sajous, Piverger, and Laguerre are on high alert for whatever or whomever comes knocking. Clinics are hot, slow, productive, enlightening, frustrating and humbling. Emergencies loom everywhere--babies stuck in ready womb--treks across garbage heaps in to tent cities of literal trash tolerated by passive humans--one of our own overcomed with heat the crowd look on and then a bag of saline slows the drain of energy--stuck in traffic amidst the slum city; the sights are overwhelming sad--while one doc sews up a
crash victim another visits a new born in the muddy tent city and it goes on as we return home to rice, beans, good food, clean simple comforts and time to think and prepare for tomorrow. Good days after all even if my alias is sr. brenda pretending to be heather. We're living here with lots of smiles.
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