EMAIL FROM DR. STEPHEN BURGHER 01.28.10
Hey Family!
Well, yesterday was a long day. We started with delivering various medical supplies to different hospitals. By the end of the day we visited or assisted 4 different hospitals. Each one is augmented by a variety of relief teams and each run a bit differently, and no one communicating with the other, much like home :-). We then went to a camp and provided wound and medical care. Camps are little tent or tarp communities of people who lost their homes. We then went to the hospital Randy worked at to deliver some supplies. They needed us to take some patients in our van to another hospital for X-rays (they doing mostly ortho surgery with no X-rays!), so we became a transport ambulance service. Then back to a camp. The day ended with our finding a very ill diabetic woman who had significant abdominal pain and vomiting - found her just as we were leaving - "oh by the way doctor, can you check on my sick mother who has diabetes?" Praise God we did! We took her to HCH hospital where I have been working, got an IV and fluids going; her glucose was over 450. We will check on her this morning.
Heather is doing awesome! Such a sweet spirit and she is so good with the kids and families. She adapts well! Her strength is in the camps. She also has been a wonderful living witness to our translator Yang.
I hope y'all are doing well. I love y'all. Say hello to everyone - family and friends. I am so encouraged, and frankly, I'm humbled, by all of the prayers from so many people and their emails of encouragement.
God's in charge.
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