Growth

Hi Everyone, so there was a reason behind the tone of my last blog entry, We had a patient - a wee boy He was 6 and was called Ogblion (i think thats how it was spelt) he was very very very sick and we worked with him for about 3 hours trying to secure him a decent airway he was on nebulisers, we had the equipment ready to do a traecheostomy we gave him the max amount of adrenaline he could have, his mum said it had started on Friday so he had been struggling to get oxygen for nearly 4 days he was getting very tired, which was dangerous- it was a really rough morning. When we ran out of options (and prayed alot) we decided to take a chance and try and get him to the hospital which is about half an hour away ( on a good day). So God was with us and we got him there in record time. I won't bore you with all the details but pretty much we found out he had Diptheria (which we get vaccinated for at home) None of us had ever seen this before. We found out yesterday (wednesday) that he died that morning ... so ... I've lost my first patient ... and I'm not entirely sure how to deal with this, plus we were all exposed to a very serious and dangerous disease which killed people in the UK years ago and still does in Haiti Its transferred by airborne droplets - bearing in mind he was on a nebuliser and we were in an enclosed space with no air conditioning with him for 3 hours. So yesterday we all had to get a booster for tetnus and diptheria and we have to take antibiotics for a week. There were 5 of us in the room - Gavin, Evan Sharkey (a dr from NI) Amy (a nurse from Canada) Sun Min ( a med student from America) and Me so we were exposed the most. Pray for our health that God will keep his hand upon us. Pray that I'll be able to grow from this experience and that God will use it and all the other things I see and do out here to teach me, increasing my faith and reliance on him.

Thanks for all your support guys it really means ALOT to me!!!
Lots of Love
God Bless
Laura xoxoxo