tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22060762477668463942024-03-06T01:12:39.683-06:00I Know Who Holds TomorrowHeather's travelling tales...Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13637200115799047433noreply@blogger.comBlogger327125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206076247766846394.post-6010635665466885732016-11-06T15:07:00.002-06:002016-11-06T15:07:58.464-06:00Some pros and cons of ship lifeI am still here. Still on the ship, working and living a life that in so many ways has become "normal," and thus so much more difficult to describe. Perhaps if I go through some pros and cons it will lay out my existence in an easier to explain way:<br />
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Con: I share a cabin (room) with two people. This can make it a little more difficult to have privacy or alone time.<br />
Pro: I only have to share with two people, which makes me one of the lucky ones, because a majority of the nurses onboard share with 3-5 people. I am fortunate to be able to close a curtain to my "itty bitty living space"(approximately 6ft x 6ft, half of which is my bed) and have alone time, or as much as you can get when a curtain is closed. Also, I don't have a bunk bed above my head, which means I can sit up straight, unlike my first 1.5years on the ship when I was in either top or bottom of a set of bunkbeds. Those bunks are in the same 6x6 space, just shared by two people.<br />
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Con: 2 minute ship showers.<br />
Pro: I can spread out those two minutes by turning off the water, which is always nice and hot. So you rinse, turn off the water and soap up, then rinse. (extra on and off for shampoo/conditioner parts of the routine) It's not as bad as I initially thought it would be.<br />
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Pro: My meals are made for me and dishes are washed for me. All I have to do is show up to the dining room, fill a plate and a cup and sit down to eat. It's generally freshly cooked, and they even have a menu posted so I know what to expect (most of the time).<br />
Con: I don't have much choice in what I eat. Breakfast is Oatmeal and boiled eggs and bread, a few veggies/sandwich meat and dry cereal (very basic cereal options). Lunch is leftovers from other meals or soup/salad. Supper is one main dish, occasionally with sides, bread and salad. Menus are on a rotation and sometimes it gets repetitive. If you don't like the meal, that's your problem. Meals are also on a strict schedule, and if you don't show up, you don't eat. Weekends you pick up your cold lunch at breakfast, so sleeping in can be challenging.<br />
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Pro: Laundry is free. I just have to pay for the soap.<br />
Con: You have to sign up for laundry slots. And some people don't understand the system. Everyone has to use the same laundry room. This is the most likely place to have an argument with someone. It turns out laundry is a easy way to offend/annoy or tick off someone. People take someone's laundry out before the time is up, steal machines, program too long and don't leave the other person time to do theirs... the list goes on.<br />
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Pro: The ship is air-conditioned. Most of the time.<br />
Con: The air-conditioning level varies. I've had it as high as 25C and low as 15C with the air-conditioning going. When it's off it can go as high as 33C in my cabin (some parts of the ship are worse, some better. The record high was in dry dock when the air-conditioning is deliberately turned off)<br />
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Pro: There are some great restaurants in town. If you are fortunate enough to have a ship vehicle license, you can drive to most restaurants in ten minutes or less. It's great.<br />
Con: Getting there if you don't have a vehicle. We aren't allowed to walk through the port, so you have to wait for the shuttle bus, which depending on your timing could throw off your schedule significantly. Then you can walk or take a taxi. But taxis aren't plentiful here, so you need to have a phone number and book one. OR, you can take a zimijohn(local motorcycle taxi), but that's frowned on by the ship, and by insurance companies. Also, meal prices are pretty much western prices. Plan to spend 12-25$US on the average meal with drinks such as soda or bottled water.<br />
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Pro: My commute to work takes about a minute. Two flights of stairs, including the gangway, and a walk down the dock before I unlock the tent I work in. It's really easy to run back inside for whatever I need. There's no need to leave more than a couple of minutes before I need to be somewhere.<br />
Cons: There is no commute. I know that sounds silly, but I have realized that there is something relaxing about a commute, where you get time alone to think, a time with no expectations, no one and nothing more than traffic that needs your attention. As long as it's not an excessively long commute, it is actually really nice to have dedicated time like that where you can gather your thoughts.<br />
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Con: There are people everywhere on the ship. Other than your own bed, there is no space that you can go to and have a reasonable expectation to be alone. Sometimes you can't even walk from the dining room back to your room without seeing someone who wants to talk or ask a question.<br />
Pro: There are people everywhere. If you want to play a game, do a puzzle, go to town, just sit and chat over a coffee, you can find someone. There is no NEED to sit alone in the dining room if you don't want to (this of course means you must be brave enough to join strangers at their table if you don't see any friends around). There is always someone around to ask if you need help finding something or understanding how something works etc. In fact, if you are looking for friends and willing to spend the time looking for them, this is a GREAT place.<br />
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Con: The ship moves a bit. The current port doesn't have a breakwater, and so we dance up and down, especially when the big container ships come sailing past. If you are prone to seasickness, it might take you a few days/weeks to get used to it. I sometimes even find myself noticing the movement at random moments.<br />
Pro: Is being rocked to sleep ever not a good thing? (secret answer: yes. When it rocks so hard it might throw you out of bed. That only happens during a sail, thankfully)<br />
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Pro: I have friends from all over the world. I could visit many countries, especially parts of Australia, New Zealand, various European countries, the US and Canada, and not have to go to a single hotel. I could couch-hop around the world. You learn so many new perspectives and understand a lot more about what is happening in this great big world as you make friends from different countries.<br />
Con: My friends leave (or I do), and I don't know if I'll ever be able to afford to visit them. This world is just too big and my friends are so scattered. It sucks.<br />
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Pro: There are constantly new people arriving to fill positions. Sometimes it is old friends returning, which is cause for celebration, sometimes it is new people that you get a chance to meet.<br />
Con: New people can be stressful (to an introvert). The only way new people can come is if some people leave. Leaving sucks. At times it feels like the goodbyes are endless.<br />
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Pro: We get to visit a new country (almost) every year. New adventures await, new places to explore, new languages to learn, new people to help, new day crew to invest in. New kinds of food and fruit, new expressions and ways of saying things, new gestures and new street signs. It is fascinating learning all about new cultures and ways of life and ways to understand the world we are in.<br />
Con: Every year you start from scratch trying to find your way around, figuring out where the good markets are, who you can trust, where it is safe to go, what is offensive and what's normal. Every year you start fresh training new staff and setting up to make things work for this place and environment. <br />
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Pro: The patients. We have the privilege of meeting and helping so many amazing people. From the tiniest baby struggling to get enough food past it's cleft palate, to the elderly grandmother with a goitre that is threatening to cut off her airway. From the goofy ten year old with burn scar contractures that runs at everyone with the biggest hugs and proclaims them his best friend, to the sullen 20-something that hides her whole head behind a scarf just waiting to find out if we can remove her facial tumour.<br />
Con: There isn't one. They are the reason we are all here. From the plumber to the teacher, from the engineer to the admin assistant, from the anesthetist to the preschool children; we are here to help these patients. There really isn't a con here. Okay, maybe saying goodbye to them is the con. Except when it means they are going home with freshly healed bodies and hearts.<br />
<br />Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13637200115799047433noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206076247766846394.post-46321524079749005722016-06-03T15:34:00.000-05:002016-06-03T15:34:31.821-05:00GoodbyesBreaking. <br />
I am breaking silently<br />
Into just a fraction of the person that I am,<br />
That I was<br />
That I expect myself to be.<br />
Or perhaps the truth is<br />
That I have always been broken<br />
But today I am shattered.<br />
I cannot say another goodbye.<br />
I cannot sit here and pretend it is all okay<br />
Pretend that I am whole and untouched by this season of departure.<br />
For just a moment, or a day, or maybe even a lifetime<br />
I need to pause this life<br />
And hold on to what is in front of me<br />
Because I'm just not ready<br />
To carve new holes in my heart<br />
While the old ones are still bleeding.<br />
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We are packing up for sail, and in the process there are hundreds of people leaving, many never to return. It is a season on the ship that we weather every year, but that doesn't make it any easier.<br />
Hopefully I'll have some patient stories written up for you soon, but this was a glimpse into where I am at today.Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13637200115799047433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206076247766846394.post-42209082091956988902015-12-13T07:23:00.000-06:002015-12-13T07:27:36.377-06:00Sometimes...Sometimes I don't know why I am drawn to the underdogs. To the people with the biggest struggles and deepest hurts. The ones who wear their scars on their sleeves and admit to all that they have been through and overcome. There is a strength inherent in the ability to be honest about the things that broke you. That continue to break you.<br />
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In my job as a nurse, every day brings me face to face with the people who wear their scars on the outside. They come into the outpatients tent and bare their wounds and their scars, and trust us with their stories.</div>
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- The small girl who we wrap up every other day in bandages, who comes skipping and smiling into our tent, giggling at things her mother says, giving us high fives and curling up in a nurse's lap when she's tired. At every dressing we hear her cry, and every time we say goodbye she thanks us for all we do. We are trying to teach her to trust again. I think we're getting there.</div>
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- The young woman waiting on a diagnosis, who comes in full of hope and dignity. Dressed as though she is showing up to work, impeccable other than a tumour that mars her physique. We dress her wounds and pray and hope alongside her.</div>
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- The old man with a face that droops and sags on one side like a stroke victim with a little too much skin. Tales to tell of an overwhelming tumour that threatened his life and is now gone.</div>
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- The small boy who runs around the tent like the ball of a pinball machine, half his face swollen and misshapen, he is oblivious to any deformity, and in love with everyone around him. He hangs off of the nurses and the day crew, riffles through drawers looking for toys, and giggles at the least provocation.</div>
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- The middle-aged woman who has a freshly-drawn scar at the base of her neck, asking if her goitre will grow back. Smiling and happy to have her blood drawn to make sure her thyroid levels are okay.</div>
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- The young man who stretches out his burn-scarred arm to show where the scar has been stretched too far and is now a wound. Bashfully grinning and admitting to games of basketball that may have been a little more than his arm could handle.</div>
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- The family member who sold a cow or a field so that they could pay for the transportation to get their son/daughter to the ship, even when everyone else told them not to. And now they look with pride on the changes, the healing that has taken place since they were brave and came anyways.</div>
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Every day we see 30 or more patients come through our doors. Every story is different, and yet they are all so similar. They involve pain, strength, courage, hope. They involve journeys across country, and overcoming barriers. They include naysayers who told them no one would help them, it's all a lie, you're too broken. </div>
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We do our best for them. But our best isn't always good enough. Some of the wounds are slow to heal. Some of the tumours are the wrong kind and we just can't do surgery on them. Some of the babies are too small or the patient is too sick for surgery. And all too often these are the patients that steal my heart and leave it scarred. We see some of the more broken ones very frequently, trying to make them ready, strong enough for surgery. Waiting for a yes or no for surgery after a biopsy. Trying to heal wounds after surgery. And in the waiting, or the prolonged healing, we grow attached. We pray and we hope... and sometimes we end up crying with the patients. </div>
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There have been a couple of "no's" this week that were rather difficult. Pray with me for these people and their families. That this time with them would be the seed planted for love, hope, a God that loves no matter the circumstance. Pray for miracles.</div>
Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13637200115799047433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206076247766846394.post-55654796472478326742015-08-31T13:35:00.003-05:002015-08-31T13:35:43.578-05:00Whale of a tail to tell you!<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times;">It all started simply
enough. With a hospital ship that went in for repairs in a South African
port. This ship was no stranger to dry docks and repairs, having started
her life as a rail ferry, she was completely refitted a number of years ago in
England to become a hospital ship. And then every couple of years she
goes back to dry dock for all the bits and pieces of maintenance that can't be
done in the water. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times;">This year was the year to
fix the propellor that wasn't working quite right. And so into her
special tub went the ship, where they drained the water out and removed one
propellor, and then the rudder, and finally even the propellor shaft.
Full of surprises and difficult fixes, all the parts were worked on by
talented men and women, until finally everything came back together. It
was slow work and in the meantime the ship was refilling with men and women who
wanted to work in her hospital, but the hospital wasn't open yet. So
those men and women found other jobs onboard to keep things running smoothly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times;">After many more days than
planned, it was finally time to fill the tub around the ship with water and
sail away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Day crew had a party on the
beach and excitedly waved her in!<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times;">We could use your prayers.
It's going to be a very full week, with no weekend break if we want to be
ready to go in time. Pray for good communication all around. Pray
for wisdom as decisions are made that will impact the rest of the year.
Pray for strength and energy to do all that must be done. Pray for
safety for all involved (and healing for our plastic surgeon who was recently
injured and needs some time to heal before coming to the ship). Pray that
we would remember to put God first everyday, no matter the circumstance. <span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13637200115799047433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206076247766846394.post-3106000940281472442015-08-16T16:02:00.002-05:002015-08-16T16:02:49.872-05:00Dry DockAnticipation mounts as the day we sail to Madagascar draws closer. We, a seemingly random collection of people from all around the world, are anxious to leave, to go, to do that thing which we believe that we have been called of God to do. Yet in a strangely familiar echo of last August, we find ourselves having to wait longer than expected. The best laid plans of mice and men... have gone awry.<br />
This year's plans were to go into dry dock in early June, finish shipyard repairs with the ship in the water in July, and happily sail back to Madagascar at the beginning of August. Thanks to unforeseen events and challenging repairs to the propellor shaft and chain locker, instead we are still sitting in dry dock and hoping, nay, praying that putting the ship back into the water tomorrow will be a smooth event. <br />
For those of us with hospital jobs, one of the things we seem to automatically dwell on is the patients we won't get to see. Every day of delay is more people in need that we will never get to meet or help. Every week of delay is a tragedy that plays out in our heads as we tally the numbers. <br />
In truth, we try not to focus on the negatives. A few extra weeks here has allowed all the repairs to be completed, which is a blessing. It also means extra time for planning and figuring out details that might not be priorities if we didn't have the time. The kind of details that make our quality and standards rise in the hospital. Things like policy and procedure revisions, adding to the manuals that include detailed descriptions of the surgeries done on board, and discussing new and better ways to accomplish things in the hospital.<br />
It also gives us time to fall to our knees in prayer. Because truly, how often do we forget who is really in charge of all things? We start to believe that we might be able to make plans without God's help. As we have dealt with changes again and again to how much longer we will be here and whether we can get the right parts in a timely manner, we have found ourselves in deep and fervent prayer for swift and safe solutions.<br />
It is just possible that the discomfort of living in dry dock is the kind of thing that brings us to our knees that much faster. What discomfort? Well... in dry dock we need to rely on electricity from the shore and pay heavily for every bit of water waste that needs to be pumped off the ship. Water and electricity restrictions mean things like: No air-conditioning, hallways that aren't lighted, laundry and shower restrictions, paper plates for one to two meals a day, no hot food at lunch, only one stove available in the crew galley. Dry dock is considered a construction zone, which results in the requirement of wearing a hardhat whenever we leave the ship, and the families are all required to be off-ship until we're back in the water. No families makes this a much more quiet, somewhat more serious place. <br />
The lack of air-conditioning means my cabin gets to a blistering 32.5C at night when I'm trying to sleep. I will be so very thankful for air-conditioning once it is turned on again! <br />
On the plus side, beyond the extra work we're getting done, I have had the chance to do a little exploring, going to the local aquarium and to a game park just outside of town. We've made the most of it and had fun, but I am really, really looking forward to getting this ship moving and back to Madagascar! Hopefully arriving before September!<br />
Here's dry dock in picture format! Captain Jurian was kind enough to give regular tours around the bottom of the ship!<br />
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The wall that holds the water back! It's at the aft (or back) of the ship).</div>
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Notice what's missing? The left propellor! This is just before they removed the left rudder in order to pull the propellor shaft out for repairs. (It is all back together already, this picture is two weeks old!)</div>
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The stairs to get down to the dry dock area!</div>
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Some of the cranes that surround the area where the ship is. They are all on rail tracks to move big equipment around.</div>
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Another view of the missing propellor</div>
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Port side of the ship. You can see the back-up emergency exit, that involves scaffolding and ladders. I'm very thankful to never have climbed down it!</div>
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Pieces of propellor waiting to go get worked on.</div>
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This is what holds the ship up. They are all placed according the the original ship manufacturers's diagrams of how to place them and at what angle. They are placed before the ship is brought in, and it gets settled on them very carefully while being held in place by strong ropes until the water is all drained front the dry dock area.</div>
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This is midway down the ship on the port side looking towards the aft.</div>
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Some of the many water intake grills. These let water for cooling systems in, and need to be cleaned regularly by our wonderful ship divers. (it's not an official job, just an extra duty that people with diving experience can sign up for)</div>
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Bow thrusters. They let us move sideways away from the dock!</div>
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That's how much dry dock is left in front of the ship... we're pretty small compared to the size of ships that they can bring in here! It's one of the largest dry docks in the world!</div>
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Here she is, sitting out of the water!</div>
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The gangway back on to the ship. Sturdy and safe. I'm very, very thankful not to have to climb 5 or 7 decks worth of steps like in some dry docks!</div>
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After joining some friends for coffee this morning, I set myself up in the cafe (a very central location on the ship) with this sign and a small variety of lotions and oils. Since it was a Sunday morning and a lot of people go off ship to local churches, it's not surprising that I only got a handful of people that took me up on my offer. But I realized something after one of these people bounced my request for a "God story" back at me. I'm craving a little reassurance and deeper connection. I want to hear more from people than just how tired they are of having chicken almost every night this week, I want to go past the regular discussions of who's working what shift and how the patients are doing and what amazing restaurant someone just discovered in town... even though these things do interest me. </div>
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I want to hear about the big things. I want to know about the way God is leading a nurse to apply to a university for her masters and how she needs to learn to trust God for more. I want to hear about the guy who found himself with exact funding for his time on the ship, with only a dollar to spare. I want to know more about the educator who was told that the class she taught to local doctors a few months ago is already saving lives.</div>
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I think I may have benefitted more from this morning than the people who got the hand massages. So this might become a regular thing. </div>
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In the meantime, I have something else to think about. I've had the chance to shadow (follow) some local midwives at the local teaching hospital. In fact some of them have come and followed me around our ship hospital as well. It's a bit of a learning exchange, and a big part of that will happen tomorrow. Tomorrow we are holding a class for them on any topics they want (within their scope of practice). We have already taught NRP (what to do with a newborn who isn't breathing) a month ago. Tomorrow's class will include a range of topics including VVF anatomy & causes, Obstetric Emergencies, Pain control in labor, and Postpartum Hemorrhage.</div>
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Pray that we present the information in a way that helps the Midwives to understand and remember it. Pray that we would be culturally sensitive and yet able to show them ways to work within the limitations at their hospital. Pray that we are able to speak TRUTH into their lives. </div>
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This ward is made up of two side-by-side spaces about 20x24ft each (very rough guess) that are joined by a small space filled with a nursing desk and countertop with cupboards and a sink. Myself, another nurse and the translator working with us bring the total population of the ward tonight to 40 people. Most of our patients have a caregiver (or two, if there is a baby sibling) who sleeps under their bed, and so our ward with 19 patients means double the number of people filling the space. <br />
Soon I will be checking on my one-year-old post-operative patient who had his fingers separated a couple of days ago. He was born with his fingers stuck together, and this surgery should allow him to use his fingers separately, giving him more dexterity. For babies and small children, I try to avoid waking them in the middle of the night unless they need medications, so my personal challenge will be to check his fingers, watch his breathing and check pulse and saturations without waking him. <br />
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Alas, I failed, and he's still crying in the background. Ten minutes of crying when you have your milk supply warm and sleeping in the bed beside you, attempting to comfort you, results in a nice big dose of pain medication from your nurse. I'm confident that he'll settle soon. In the brief time that I left the computer, 3 of my patients received pain medications (amazing how many people wake up to a crying baby!), I checked on 4 sets of fingers and toes and one wound vac, I did two sets of vitals, and I only used the translator once. <br />
It is truly amazing how much you can get across with pantomime and gestures mixed with a handful of useful words. My current favorite two: Marare = Pain, Vita = Finished/All done/End. The first word helps because I know when the children are moaning it, or the adults come and just say that and I GET it! Then I pull out the pain scale pictograph with faces and they show me how much pain they have. The second word helps mostly with small children, so they know I'm done bugging them.<br />
Ahhh, silence reigns again. My little one has fallen asleep!<br />
The ward is once again at peace. People are settling back into their beds and re-entering healing sleep. There are no surgeries happening in the morning, so we'll let them sleep a little longer before turning on the lights. <br />
As they sleep, would you pray for the ones here with infections that need to heal? And for the ones that have been here for 3 or 4 weeks, some are getting a bit of cabin fever and becoming more and more frustrated with the long days in here. Pray for calm hearts and respectful interactions.<br />
Thanks.Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13637200115799047433noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206076247766846394.post-75717829300588070912015-01-27T14:01:00.000-06:002015-01-27T14:08:24.222-06:00Recap of the last few months...There is a feeling of too much to say, too much to share, and no idea where to start. Since my last blog I have made new friends and said goodbye to them, only to find more new people to spend my time with. All while trying to maintain the old friends as well. And in the midst of it all, it's been work as usual. Or perhaps not. The longer I live this life, the harder it is to pick out the amazing, because it masquerades as normal.<br />
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* And yes, I realize the chance to see, touch, pet, hold Lemurs is definitely in the "amazing" category!</div>
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In the last year I have moved from the beauties of home: (I took this picture last spring a few hours from home)<br />
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To the wild beauty of Madagascar (also taken a few hours from "home", or my home here at least):<br />
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Life in Madagascar is lived in seasons, not as I grew up with (spring/summer/fall/winter), but rather dry season and rainy season. Converse to everything I tend to expect, the rainy season is the hotter of the two seasons. We are currently in the rainy (and cyclone) season. The other day it was so hot outside that as the rain started, we had a thick mist/fog rising at our feet because the rain was instantly evaporating off the scorching hot ground. The wind kicks up and it's a hot wind, not cooling in the least. And that confuses me. I'm not complaining, it makes a walk in the rain almost pleasant, and the ship kids love to play in the rain here. </div>
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I made the most of an opportunity to make a little extra cash on the ship when we had a festive day in December called "winter wonderland." Crew members could sell crafts or food to other crew, and it was a fun time to mingle and browse. I made Ginger cookies and Chai tea, which sold out half way through the night. This brought in enough spare cash to allow me to go on a short (4 night) trip to a local island with some friends and enjoy time on the beach in hammocks, snorkelling in the ocean and just generally relaxing away from the ship. The owner of the place gave discounts to all local missionaries, which was a great blessing. Oh, he also had the cutest little bamboo lemur that he has raised since it was a few weeks old. Mikey (the lemur) is very comfortable around people and takes every opportunity to steal food off of our plates, or uses people as jumping off points as he rockets around the room!</div>
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But enough about the beauty of Madagascar (for now) what about the work we do?</div>
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In the hospital, there are seasons as well. We go from specialty to specialty, balancing to fit the patients in the bed spaces onboard. Because we made such a last-minute choice to come to Madagascar, the influx of patients has been slow, as we spread the word and search for those on the outskirts of the country who need help the most. And little by little we are filling to capacity. We have just now finally overflowed all of our regularly open wards, and have started to fill E ward as well. </div>
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The hospital opened in November, but before we could open we needed to screen (find and assess) people. This year is a different set-up than the last few years. This year we had almost a month of screening days in the city we are in. The hope was to give more people a chance to make it here, and decrease the size of the crowds. I got the opportunity to help as security on the first day, when about 2000 people showed up. The numbers were down to between 200-600 a day (in line) during the next few weeks. I must say, I'm impressed at the calmness of the people here. There was never any upset or problems in line, and stepping out of line to grab food and water was respected by those around you who would save your space and welcome you back to where you came from! Since December, the screening team has moved from one area to another across Madagascar, spending at least 3-5 days seeing local people and picking those we can help. Here are a few pictures from the local screening days:</div>
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Orthopedics, General surgery and Maxillofacial surgery were the specialties that we started with.</div>
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B ward was full of beautiful children and their smiling faces! </div>
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To be fully honest, they didn't all smile right away, they don't like most of us the first few days while everything hurts. A few games of Memory, Jenga, and Connect 4 can go a long way towards making friends though. A majority of the children we helped in orthopaedics had club feet, as it's a very common condition worldwide, and when it's neglected as an infant then surgery is necessary to repair it.</div>
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These children in their casts are back and forth on the dock for months, and our rehab team (physio and occupational therapy) are still seeing them regularly. We have some beautifully straight legs and feet walking around down on the dock these days. </div>
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The patients from A ward are beautiful too, but I have less pictures of them. As per usual, they are often in and out so fast that it's harder to build relationships and we get far fewer pictures of them. One little beauty that stayed for a few weeks until she was well enough to go home: </div>
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This beautiful girl rarely slowed down! And she had a smile for everyone. Happily, she's not in hospital anymore and should be returning home soon.</div>
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Please remember to pray for healing for our patients. And for calm seas as the cyclone season has just started and every week we've had cyclones brushing just close enough that we need to keep an eye on them. No emergency sails yet, but they are always a possibility here. </div>
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And finally, pray for me as I make choices in the next few days/weeks about when to return home this summer, and what kind of challenges to take on next year (on the ship). </div>
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I must admit to having neglected this space horribly in the last two months. One of the new nurses called me on it... apparently she reads my blog regularly. So to all of you that I have left hanging, I'm sorry. Life happened and I'm still re-learning how to balance my time in this place. A day can feel like a week and yet I blink and somehow I've been on the ship for 11 weeks! </div>
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I'm not going to reiterate all the changes, since that seems to be my theme each time I write a blog. And I'm not going to go into detail about South Africa yet, because that really deserves it's own blog. </div>
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On September 13th, we set sail from Gran Canaria Spain, to Cape Town South Africa. In total, that was the furthest sail that this ship has ever travelled in one trip since it became the Africa Mercy. September 29th we arrived to our destination, grateful to feel solid ground beneath our feet. The first 13 days of the sail were pretty much idyllic. Calm seas and a following wind, warm sunny days spent on the bow whenever I could make it out there, fresh food that somehow lasted most of the sail... it was FUN! We had activities planned every night, and filled our weekends with things like a Dutch Blitz tournament for a friend's birthday.</div>
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I worked hard with the engineering team, helping with repair work that included removing the "dome" ceiling in reception where we vacuumed out piles of accumulated dust, replaced insulation and re-insulated pipes. The plumbers replaced leaky pipes and there was way to much work involving ladders that we had to balance on and buckets that needed to be held and moved to catch the dripping pipes as we swayed. We finished up before things got too rough.</div>
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Somewhere about a week into the sail, there was one lunchtime where the captain announced that we were in one of the few spots along the way where your shadow will be DIRECTLY beneath you. The sun was literally in the middle of the sky and there was no angle to shadows. It's really hard to get it in a picture, but here's my attempt...<br />
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And then we got close to the rough currents and wilder weather around South Africa. Our typical sail includes seas that make the ship tilt to around 5-10 degrees, with occasional times as much as 12-15 degrees. This last weekend included a few times where we were up to 22 degrees, and resulted in a lot of things moving that hadn't moved in years (or ever), and some damage. Happily no major injuries. We re-tied things and did our best to be cautious, and the galley crew didn't cook for a day or two, instead serving things that didn't need much prep work. We made the most of it and moved things like worship on the bow inside to the international lounge.</div>
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We arrived safe and enjoyed almost three weeks in South Africa where more crew joined us. And then... we set sail for Tamatave, Madagascar.</div>
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I have almost no pictures from this sail. It was rough, rainy, and windy for a majority of the sail. We had multiple days where we were almost always around 10-16 degree rocking. There were a few large rolls that had some serious damage, including a broken cappucino maker (in our starbucks cafe which has since been fixed), broken bread slicer and broken meat slicer. There's some debate on what degree those rolls were, no one had a true measurement (beyond poorly calibrated iPhones that stated up to 33degrees which is doubtful), though it was at least 25 degrees on one roll. Even the captain admitted to being unable to stand up in the shower for most of the sail, if that gives you an idea of how rough it was. There were several days with no hot food. I may have required daily naps to make it through, but the seasickness medicine I was on kept me going (if drowsy). We had nursing orientation through the sail for all 40 some nurses currently on board, which if nothing else has gotten me excited for this field service to get moving!</div>
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Early this morning just before 7am the captain announced that the pilot would be boarding soon, so I pried myself out of bed to enjoy the (calm) sail into the harbour.</div>
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Once we finally approached our (first) dock, the first part of the gangway was lowered into position.</div>
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It's a nice dock, that appears to have been freshly paved for the ceremonies around our arrival, including the visit of the President and his kicking off the "Year of the Volunteer" in Madagascar. We will move to a nearby dock on Monday and that's where we'll stay for the rest of the field service.</div>
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There was plenty of media presence, including an absolutely fascinating drone camera that flew around taking pictures (or video?) of the ship as we sailed in and tied down.</div>
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The advance team was eagerly awaiting our arrival, and were able to board soon after we were safely tied down.</div>
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The rest of the day has been full of ceremonies (one at the dock and another in the town centre that some of us were shuttled to) to celebrate the year of the volunteer. We also had a 2 hour meeting this evening where the advance team explained the miracles they accomplished in 6 weeks, and we were given a short lesson on safety and culture to prepare us to enjoy our freedom tomorrow.</div>
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Over the moon to have finally arrived! More stories and pictures another time. But it's bedtime now, and I think I'll need to explore a bit tomorrow!</div>
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<br />Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13637200115799047433noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206076247766846394.post-68466829570514335822014-09-08T15:08:00.001-05:002014-09-08T15:18:18.614-05:00Not sailing yet...You know that paperback novel you read the other week/month/year, the one where you got frustrated and wanted to know what would happen, and you strongly considered (or maybe you actually did!) flipping to the end of the book to find out what in the world was going to happen? The book where the plot twists came along just a little too frequently and you wondered just where the author was going with all of this...<br />
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Welcome to life on the ship. Full of undisclosed endings, plot twists galore, and enough adventure to fill a full length novel. Well, at least there's that much adventure if you choose to relabel changes as adventures. One of my friends came up with that one. Makes me smile, so I'm running with it. It's not more changes, just more adventures. <br />
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I've been meaning to write a new blog for weeks. I've just been waiting to know what to say. Waiting until I could tell you where we are going. I'm still a little tongue-tied, so I'll tell you what I can say.<br />
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The adventure started with a field service (that's what we call our ten month stay in a country) in Guinea, starting at the end of August until the start of June. Plans changed in April as the ebola virus got up and running in that country. So the leadership wisely decided to find a country at the other end of West Africa. The new adventure would happen in Benin. The advance team was sent and settled into the country. Plans and preparations were working so well it was amazing. One week before the ship was meant to sail from Tenerife to Benin, a man who had ebola took a flight from Liberia to Nigeria, and suddenly the world became that much smaller. Less that a week before the sail, I arrived on the ship.<br />
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The leadership of Mercy Ships watched the situation, and decided it's too risky to go yet, lets wait until we know if ebola will spread in Nigeria. Nigeria is right beside Benin, so if ebola is there, we won't go. The sail date was moved to the end of August. We settled in and started looking for more things we could do to prepare, things like cleaning, painting, redistributing items to correct departments then tying them down securely, adjusting documents, writing policies etc.<br />
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About a week later the engineering department found the solution to what has been a long-term problem with one of our propellors, and went to work fixing it. But that meant moving the ship one island over to Las Palmas... oh and the sail date was moved to Sept 5th. And we watched the growth of ebola from afar as it continued to devastate the countries we all love. As we waited, new plans were growing. There was a small list of countries we might go to, depending on what happened. Maybe we could still go to Benin. Maybe we would go back to Congo? Those were the top two options... until they weren't. Benin wasn't safe. And then... Congo wasn't either. The DRC has an ebola outbreak and everyone is running scared, and so we're not going to Congo. Or anywhere in West Africa. New countries came onto the radar. Top officials are going to talk to other top officials.<br />
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In the meantime, we're still waiting on two containers to arrive. Two containers that will fill our holds with enough supplies to hold us for 12 weeks of food and surgeries. <br />
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Finally the propellor was fixed and it was time for sea trials, so off we went to sea last week, to go forward and back and round and round and round in circles. I may have slept most of the day. And the sea trials revealed a new problem. Well, really it's an old problem that they think they have the solution to. And so the talks begin of when and how to repair it. Basically the problem is with the fancy part of a ferry that allows it to move sideways away from a dock. Not necessary but very nice to have. <br />
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Oh, and then the freezers that hold most of our perishable food decided to quit at about the time we did the sea trials. So they found a place to keep everything frozen, and now it's an extra week or more to fix the freezers. The adventures continue. <br />
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On the positive side... we have a country to go to!!!! I just can't tell you where yet. Official announcement on or around Thursday. The (most recent) planned sailing date is the 13th of September. Subject to change, of course!<br />
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What about me though? Well I had a plan. Expectations, I suppose, is a better word for it. I was coming to work as a charge/ward nurse. And then I got a special request to help build up a new role, where I would work hand in hand with the ward supervisor. Plans were hashed out, expectations set. And then... the supervisor I was to work with got a new position on board and I was in limbo. The new ward supervisor waited to see what things looked like before talking to me... but now I know.<br />
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I will once again be a charge/ward nurse. It took me a bit to re-process. To accept the return to the role that I was excited about before, and to once again be excited. I have my excitement back. I'm ready to be a ward nurse, and excited at all the other possibilities in store. Dressings team? Local nurse education? Screening? Who knows where I can help and what the future holds, but the possibilities are expanding. <br />
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And in the waiting, I have been re-allocated (given a new job) until we arrive at the next country. I've been assigned to help the Hotel Engineer. I know, the title sounds fancy. There are 5 people from the hospital all assigned to help him. In layman's terms, he's a plumber with a few other responsibilities. This week I started, and our first job of the week is to work in the empty freezers. Remember the ones that I mentioned are broken? The parts they need to fix are on the deck below the freezers, so we are working inside of them. We're patching holes (with silicon caulking), removing/rearranging/reattaching all the shelves in one of the freezers for better airflow, painting, and scrubbing everything down. Should take us most of the week. Kinda fun, but so, so, so very hot! I'm gonna make good use of my 2 minute ship showers this week! <br />
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Oh, and in time off, there is a beach in walking distance. If you pack a lunch on the ship, it makes for a really cheap little holiday on a Saturday or Sunday. There are lots of shops, that I'm attempting to avoid so as to save money, and lots of Gelato/icecream shops. I've had the joy of babysitting some of my favourite kids on the ship, and am slowly finding a routine of sorts and friends to spend time with.<br />
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I know that was a lot of news in one go. I'll try not to cram so much in future updates! Prayers for morale, repairs, safe sailing, and for the new country that we're heading to would be much appreciated. And prayers for those in West Africa, who not only have to worry about Ebola, but are living in war-like conditions with food scarcity, prices sky-rocketing, lack of resources, lack of healthcare (as minimal resources all go to fight ebola) etc.Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13637200115799047433noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206076247766846394.post-18867423054277449982014-08-12T16:43:00.001-05:002014-08-12T16:44:58.891-05:00Arrival and future plans<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I believe that there is a strong possibility that my body has forgotten what it means to live on a ship. The gentle rock and sway that I wouldn’t have noticed when I left the ship last year, is now something that I definitely feel. I’m not complaining, and don’t feel sick, but I know that I’m not in a building on shore. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Oh, yes, I should likely mention the fact that I am back on the ship. Saturday at 2:30pm, my parents and I headed out from their house with all of my luggage to the airport (I am eternally grateful to them for all the chaos of mine that they put up with). Sunday at 11pm local time, I walked up the gangway of the Africa Mercy for the first time in over a year. Overtired and DONE with airports, I walked in and felt at home again. A home where things are the same but different, like a shuffled deck of cards. The change in people occasionally leaves me more off-kilter than </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> jet lag, but I am finding a new normal and becoming closer with some people that were mere acquaintances last time I was here (or that have arrived since I left).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I am in a four berth cabin for now, and my roommates were both out when I arrived, so I had some space and peace to unpack into my little cabinet. (I still have not met my bunkmate, though we have both slept in </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> same section of the cabin for the last two nights. I have been in bed earlier than her each time) </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Unpacking the first night was a haphazard job more focused on emptying bags and finding clean clothing than anything else. After running upstairs to the computers in order to announce my safe arrival on Facebook (I wouldn’t have bothered, except it’s the fastest and easiest way to do that), I had a luxuriously hot two minute shower. All of my important “business” done, I climbed onto my top bunk, turned out the lights and attempted to sleep by 12 midnight. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">As an organization, the Ebola outbreak is being </span>actively<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> followed/monitored by our staff and leaders. Being well aware of the outbreak from the first news reports in April, changes in our destination were made, and for </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> safety of everyone the choice was made not to go to Guinea but to instead go to Benin. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">In the last week, there have been suspected cases in Benin and Nigeria that are being monitored. Now to give a little perspective, Ebola has symptoms that are similar to a few other virus/bacteria/parasites that people can get in this part of the world. Which means suspected cases must be confirmed before we know that Ebola has indeed migrated to a new country or not.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">In light of this news, t</span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;">he ship will now remain in the Canary Islands until the end of the month.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;">We will sail out within 2-3 weeks, but the destination is now uncertain.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;">We’re giving Nigeria and Benin a little time to show if there is a cause for concern or any further spread of Ebola to those areas. And our leadership is actively discussing the situation and our best response to it.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The fact is, we are not set up to treat Ebola. We are not a medical hospital, we are a surgical hospital. So we are waiting and considering contingency plans and countries. Life is now a little uncertain, where will we sail?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I have no doubt that we will be where we are needed, and where God wants us, no matter where we go. And so I will sail wherever management decides is safe and wise to go. The change in dates, though, causes upheaval. Plane tickets for those starting or ending their time with us are being changed, plans modified. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Pray for wisdom and guidance for those that make the final decisions for the ship. Pray for those dealing with the Ebola epidemic, and for the health and safety of the people of West Africa. Pray for those struggling with </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> uncertainty of this season, and for unity on the ship as we look to the future.</span></span>Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13637200115799047433noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206076247766846394.post-2372560405276844812014-07-25T23:01:00.001-05:002014-07-25T23:01:52.881-05:00PackingI have had many, many moments where I want nothing more than to pack my two suitcases for the ship and be done, leaving the rest of my mess of "stuff" behind. Packing is stressful. I'm guessing this is true for most people, though there are some that seem to accomplish it with ease. And because I am an overachiever, a masochist, or simply a vagabond with too much stuff, every time I do a big move it's far more than just pack up and go. <br />
Instead, it's a four tiered pack.<br />
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Items from column A are coming with me (this must be limited to what I can fit in two suitcases and a backpack). <br />
Items from column B are some basics that I would like to leave with my parents in case I'm lucky enough to sneak away for a holiday home and don't want to bring everything back with me. (this also needs to be limited to a couple of suitcases due to space issues). <br />
Items from column C are things I'd rather not buy again. These are destined for storage of some kind, be it letting a friend use it while I'm gone, begging friends to store things while I'm gone, or paying for storage. <br />
Items from column D are sell/give away items. <br />
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This is relatively easy, but time-consuming. And actually quite hard when asking for help, because my friends don't necessarily know what items need to be going into what category. And so I try and do everything, and end up overwhelmed. That has been the story of this month. Overwhelmed with what needs to happen. Also not helped by the fact that the last two times I did a big move I put stuff in storage/added to previous storage, and last year all of those things moved in with me. Yup. I have too much. But I ignored it for a year.<br />
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And so, God has called me to give up this excess. And the more I try and get rid of, the more I find space to store things, or people to buy things. An exercise in giving in and letting go. Tomorrow is the garage sale (dependant on the weather), and I'm hoping to get rid of most things that are left. I may actually cart off the leftovers to goodwill, just so I don't have to think about it anymore.<br />
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I've been blessed the last two days with help packing, and even there, it was learning to let go. I need to control what I'm doing, and this asking for help, and letting others see how much excess I had allowed myself, that is hard. Which just reinforces how much I needed to do that. <br />
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It's not the easy that we need in our lives. It's the hard that we need, that grows and expands us, stretches us out of our old dry selves, like a crab shedding a shell that's become too small, it leaves us vulnerable at first, but that's when they get the chance to grow. <br />
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Perhaps that's why I can't stop saying yes when God presents me with a new challenge, because I'm ready to shed the old and grow.Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13637200115799047433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206076247766846394.post-78154354104189812972014-06-07T00:58:00.001-05:002014-06-07T00:58:12.893-05:00News, news, news!Some things are better face to face, or at least one to one. Like explaining big life changes. So I've delayed this post until I could speak with those who are important to me. And frankly, I wanted details ironed out as well. Those that know me best had it figured as soon as they read my last post. <br />
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I'm heading back to the ship!<br />
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There's a part of me that doesn't want to. I've just gotten settled and furnished an apartment. It's overwhelming to think of selling and/or packing it all up. I have a good job, a car, and most of all: my family and some of my closest friends are all nearby. <br />
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On the flip side, I'm excited. I've spent the last 3 weeks living in Thompson on a travel nursing assignment. I've lived out of two suitcases (and a few bags of groceries/toiletries). And it's freeing to have almost nothing. How easy it is to step back into "normal" life and believe I need stuff. It's time to walk away from "stuff" again. <br />
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Time to return to the chaos of never having a space completely to myself, surrounded by people and yet still having times of loneliness. Time to return to pressure-cooker friendships that are stronger in a week than a year of knowing someone in the "real world." Time to return to never truly leaving work, and having a boss that you can also call a friend. Time for living in community in all of it's complexities. <br />
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And time for Africa. A diverse continent full of amazing people, and full of potential. A place that will change you far before you have a chance to change it. Because I'm the one who still needs to be changed, who has things to learn. <br />
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<b><u>The Details: </u></b><br />
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1. I need to sell my stuff. Living room furniture, Queen sized bed and dressers, all kinds of kitchen stuff, and many many books. If you know of someone who needs to buys these things, drop me a line. Living in an apartment, I don't know if I can do anything like a garage sale, but I might look at Kijiji? Any suggestions?<br />
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2. Whatever I don't sell, I need to find storage for. My parents don't have a ton of spare room, so once again, suggestions and offers are welcome!<br />
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3. I need to raise money. See the "support me" tab above. If you don't care about a tax receipt, talk to me about alternative ways to help me out. (i.e.: sending things to the ship via container) If you're feeling really generous, I still need to buy my plane tickets. Those can be a write-off, it's a little complicated, but talk to me/email and I'll explain how we can do that.<br />
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4. I need to be on the ship on the 10th of August, where I will join them a few days before the sail from the Canary Islands to Benin (about 10 days). The ship will spend 10 months on the coast of Benin, doing free surgeries and training local doctors.<br />
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5. On the ship, I will be working as a paediatric ward nurse. I will also be working on admin-type details a couple of days a week, helping to take some of the load off of our hospital manager. Things like working on the schedule and other still-to-be-defined tasks. *The hospital on the ship does not open until a few weeks after the ship arrives in Benin. First we need to unpack the hospital, clean it, and have a screening day where we work crazy hours to assess thousands of hopeful patients, and give surgery dates to the ones that can be helped by the ship's surgeons. Then sometime in September the first patients will be brought onto the ship and have their surgeries.<br />
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6. Which reminds me, I'll likely spend a few weeks working in the Admissions tent when the hospital first opens. Making me a bit of a jack-of-all-trades. <br />
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There are new challenges, new experiences, new friends around the corner. It's a little scary, but there's no point in sticking my head in the sand when God beckons me towards adventure, now is there?<br />
<br />Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13637200115799047433noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206076247766846394.post-5070439145164067092014-02-23T14:55:00.003-06:002014-02-23T14:55:59.051-06:00Not my plansThis is not the life I planned. <br />
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As a teenager, I imagined my life something like my mother's, married in my early twenties and a little family to go along with it shortly after. A home, a family, a cozy little life.<br />
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First I was going to be a teacher, then a massage therapist, and finally a nurse. Spreading my university through half my twenties, I pushed my dreams forward. Perhaps this marriage and family, this settling down would come after starting my career. Yes, that seemed right.<br />
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And then I started dreaming of travelling. No, let me amend that, I started dreaming of travelling in elementary school. At that point, travelling was something you did on vacation. You went in between the important parts of life, when you got holidays from your job. I've always dreamed of travelling. Australia and Africa were places I definitely wanted to go. Europe too. Someday I would vacation there.<br />
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A life defined by travel... well that didn't occur to me until I finished my degree. Suddenly the idea of travelling and working where I travelled was possible! Nurses are needed everywhere. Work a little while close to home, some experience under my belt... and then the world was my oyster! Missions would be great, but I needed far more experience before doing that. Plus, wasn't it better to go on missions with a spouse?<br />
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So I worked, and then I travelled and worked with a good friend (see the first year of this blog). Life was an adventure. Travelling with a friend was amazing... and difficult. I started to learn lessons about myself and those around me that I wasn't expecting. <br />
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I returned home for a year, and then was off on a solo adventure to the north. It was stretching, grounding, wonderful, difficult and more. I matured and grew into more of who I was meant to be. And still I dreamed that there I might find the man, the spouse who would go on missions with me. But it was not to be. <br />
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In the stretching and growing, I realized that here I was alone, and God was enough. He had led me here and made me strong enough for what was in front of me. Why not go on missions alone? I wouldn't truly be alone, for God was with me.<br />
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So I packed up my life in the north, visited home once again, and then set off for the Africa Mercy. And like taffy, I was stretched and strengthened more. Leaned on God more. Learned that if God is my center, and I am in the center of His will, my dreams do come true. Not the dreams I had for me. The dreams that God places in front of me. With finances running out and my year almost up, God called me for another year on the ship. I placed my hand in His and He was faithful, always finding the finances were enough. <br />
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Two years on the ship, and once again God called me home. Why? I don't know. I am home and soaking in the time with family and friends. Enjoying the challenges of a new job that pushed me to think in new ways. I am where I am supposed to be. And yet...<br />
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I know that God has more for me. At this point, to settle down would be wonderful, to find a belated version of my teenage dream. But I could never feel settled outside of God's will. Having walked the path he laid out for me, I can't imagine trying to set my own path. So instead I wait for His next call. What more does He have? <br />
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Each time I step out of my comfort zone into that place that I have been called, I find peace. I stand in a place right now where my job ends in April. And I am searching for that God path. Is he calling me to more of the same? Is there a new path for me? Will I protest the stretching in a new place? Will I find myself protesting his call (either to stay or to go) because I think my dream is better?<br />
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This is not the life I planned. It is SO much more than I could have dreamed!Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13637200115799047433noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206076247766846394.post-73197221552779550192013-08-28T22:06:00.000-05:002013-08-28T22:06:03.671-05:00My heartI think I left a portion of my heart in Africa. On a ship. I left it in the loving hands of friends who have become like family. I left it sleeping on a bunk in the cramped ship that somehow became a home. I left it in the eyes of a thousand people that I met from more countries than I can remember, speaking languages I will never understand. <br />
And I struggle to come to grips with the fact that the time to be home in Winnipeg is now. I could tell you a hundred reasons why I KNOW beyond a shadow of a doubt that I am EXACTLY where God wants me right now. But dare I say that there is a sliver of my heart that's torn and bleeding while I'm here? It pulses with the rhythms of the ship, and it exults with the triumphs and mourns with the losses. <br />
When I heard from a friend who is still on the ship that there is a spiritual battle going on there, I found myself praying one of the most fervent prayers since my arrival home. And as this day of screening and selection has passed by today, again I find myself in frequent prayer. <br />
Through the prayers I realized my new role. Some of us, those that know the ups and downs, the rhythms and trials of the ship, the ones who left a portion of our hearts sailing forever on her decks. We are the prayer warriors. And as the ship's revolving doors continue to usher in new crew and wave sad goodbyes just as fast, the circle of prayer warriors grows. The wider our circle grows the more amazing things can be accomplished. <br />
We may not be physically present, but we will forever be partners with those that sail and walk her decks. <br />
Today was the first time for Mercy Ships to hold a screening/selection day in the Congo. Approximately 7-8 thousand people showed up, and over 4000 will be returning for further assessment/surgery. It sounds like they will have some more people seen tomorrow. Everything was safe and orderly. People are exhausted but happy with how the day went. Surgeries start next week.<br />
I'll update you on my life soon. <br />
Thanks for joining me in my journeys.<br />
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Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13637200115799047433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206076247766846394.post-67884649252563584852013-06-04T16:49:00.000-05:002013-06-04T16:49:01.072-05:00Faithful GodWe are sailing! And while I can't quite describe to you the pure joy involved in that statement, I want you to know that it's amazing! As always :D<br />
In the midst of the joy though, I'm realizing just how short my time here has become, and I am occasionally remembering to be intentional in relationships, in spending time around those with whom I've become close. I've started a mental countdown to departure, if only to prepare myself and actually get my packing etc done. <br />
This afternoon, after heeding the overhead page mentioning whales spotted on the starboard side, I spent a little extra time outside with a good friend and her baby. Her little one is about 10 months old and literally on the brink of walking. The new game has become to see if we can get her to take her first steps on the sail. We get her balanced, which she actually does quite well, and then let her go, holding out our hands/toys/badges etc, trying to entice her to move forward. But she's not ready. She will smile and get excited, but refuses to put that foot forward unless someone is holding her hand. And so as I walked her along the deck, each of her hands firmly grasping one of my fingers, a song came to me. <br />
It's a song that a few of my other friends have declared to be our theme song from the Guinea outreach. "Never Once" by Matt Redman features a chorus that proclaims: "Never once did we ever walk alone, never once did you leave us on our own, You are faithful, God, You are faithful." Something about those lines hit me in a new way today. Like a parent (aunt/friend etc) that holds an infant's hands until they are ready, God doesn't just set us up until we have our balance and tell us to go for it. He knows exactly how long to hold on. And He's there with us every step of the way. He saw our first steps and He will see our last. Faithful God. And He's walking home with me this month too. Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13637200115799047433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206076247766846394.post-38947469256025107822013-05-27T17:04:00.001-05:002013-05-27T17:11:18.106-05:00GoodbyesAlong with the season of lasts comes the season of goodbyes. This past weekend alone around 50 people disembarked (left) the ship and will not be replaced until around the time the ship sails into Congo. Every time I turn around someone else is leaving. Usually, this season of goodbyes is tempered by the fact that I will see many of the people again. A good percentage of people will return either from vacation or from the fact that there's something in the water. (inside joke... we've decided that there's something addictive in the water to make us WANT/yearn to come back and pay to work and be so far from family) This year, though, I'm saying more goodbyes. Because it's my turn to leave this time, and so as friends go on vacation I need to say my goodbyes already.<br />
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I was fine, mostly. I did my 16 or so final interviews with the nurses from my ward, and was a little saddened to see them go but I coped. I went away for the day on Saturday and missed the departures of many people, then on Sunday I made sure to be on the dock to wave off the friends that left that day. And amidst the sad farewells and the hugs and the promises to stay in touch, I sighed deeply, turned and walked back onto the ship. I refused to be too deeply affected. <br />
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Today we packed. We shuffled large racks and frames and beds and cabinets around the ward, padding and tying and ratcheting tight. We pulled apart and repacked and shrink wrapped and zip tied and tied down tighter. We army crawled above the large carts to get things in just the right places... and it was amazing to have the biggest 3D puzzle I've ever worked on come together so smoothly. At the end of a long day, I came back to my room, and I was done. <br />
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I called out to my roommate that I don't want to leave. I'm happy here. I'm not ready for change. She told me "you can do it." Essentially, she's right. I can do it. And to be honest, I don't doubt that. I can do it... I've done it many times before. I've done the goodbyes to best friends all through childhood, as year after year best friends moved away. I've restarted in new places, with new jobs and new friends. I've learned that it's better to have friends than to decide that I can't do it anymore. But it doesn't get any easier. The rough path full of unknowns is still hard to navigate. And I'm about to jump into that again.<br />
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Perhaps I'm tired. I keep saying that I'm taking this one day at a time. But in a way, that is simply denial. Trying to avoid what will come. I don't like change. (don't quote to me all the changes I've instigated in the last 6 years... I still don't like the starting over bit) And I'm heading for it like a runaway train. And the fact that I don't have a concrete plan yet... scares the crap out of me. <br />
On the flip side though... if I plan too much, I don't give God space to move. I'm trying to find that balance of planning but not overplanning. Soon it will be time to send out resumes and hope for interviews. Soon it will be time to find a house, a car, to start a new "normal" life. Soon. To be honest, I'm not sure I know how to live a "normal" life anymore. But for now, denial or not, it's time to live in the moment again. <br />
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Time to curl up on a friend's bed and laugh over our assessments of a favorite game. Time to continue packing up the wards and get this place ready to sail. Time to pack up my room so IT will be ready to sail. Time to put up my wooden boards that stop me from rolling out of bed when the seas are rough. Time to walk into town and enjoy some local food one more time. Time to buy fruit from the lady that we've been going to for the last 6 months. Time to make the most of this time before it slips through my fingers. Because it's not QUITE time to leave yet.Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13637200115799047433noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206076247766846394.post-44771573391969020252013-05-19T18:01:00.003-05:002013-05-19T18:01:53.952-05:00A season of lastsThe season of lasts has come upon us, and I'm not really sure how I feel about it all. I know that I will miss this place with all my heart, but I know that for now it is time to live in the moment. I need to live in the moment, to treasure the now. Because life is here and now and I don't want to miss it. <br />
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On Friday we had our last general surgery rounds, and discharged all of those patients home. (You would think that means my job is done, but it's not, I still get to play with all the other not-yet-discharged patients that remain on my ward.)<br />
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On Thursday, we had our last bed meeting - the time when we decide where admissions will go. There was some dressing up involved, because we could.<br />
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This weekend was our last weekend with the hospital open. <br />
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And this Sunday we had our last ward church.... I'm not sure if I've talked about this before. Every Sunday, the hospital chaplains hold a small worship time with a speaker, and it's normally on A or B ward. All of the patients are invited, though not required to go (sometimes they are kinda surrounded in their beds though, if the service is happening in their area). This Sunday... instead of a speaker, the patients were invited to tell their stories. It started with two, told through 3-4 translators so as many as possible could understand. Then more and more tried to tell their stories. It was amazing, and heart wrenching, and beautiful. To see this joy, these transformations, that's why we're here. <br />
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Many spoke of searching for years for help. Problems that started as children, still affecting them as adults, and no one able to help. Being told they are cursed, being ostracized. One man went to almost every country in West Africa, searching for someone who could help... but no one could. Another took his son to every hospital in the Sierra Leone for a growth on his eye, but they simply said he was cursed. The stories kept coming, and each spoke of how their prayers were answered by a ship that does free surgeries.<br />
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One man spoke of his son, born with a cleft, called a devil by his mother and grandmother. But a doctor gave the man hope, told him it was a medical problem, and she would find a surgeon who could fix it. And so the baby was taken to a children's home, and the father waited. When they could come here, finally, he sees the change in his baby. The lip is whole now, and the father wants more than anything to take his son home and show them that this is a human being. <br />
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Such a little thing. Such a simple surgery. And yet... it moves mountains. <br />
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Not all of our surgeries are simple. Not all have perfect outcomes. Many that spoke have gone through multiple surgeries. There are many that we are praying for. We pray that we will see a final, miraculous wound healing. <br />
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It is almost time to say goodbye, and it is when we expect the miracles. We had 24hours of prayer a week ago for the plastic surgery patients, and most wounds had a sudden decrease in size. Pray with us as we ask God for healing. Pray for wounds to stop leaking, for wounds to shrink and disappear. For infections to clear up, for patients to be ready (physically and emotionally) to go home. We have until Friday. <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"></span>Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13637200115799047433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206076247766846394.post-82838188996076105742013-04-15T16:52:00.001-05:002013-04-15T16:52:41.726-05:00Beautiful troublemakersYou know that moment when you turn your back for 2 minutes to write something down... something important, like a verbal order that needs to go in a chart so the nurses know what the plan is... and you turn around again and suddenly your computer screen is completely blank and emptied of icons and windows. Yep. That moment. Complete disbelief at what little childish fingers can do with your computer, your WORK computer, in the moments it takes to write a couple of sentences. Inward groan. Outward "Ne touch pas!!!!" and a quick banishment of all small brown fingers from my workspace. And still they hung on my arms, hung around me, draped over surfaces and teasingly touching whatever they can get at. These children on my ward. I love them. And they're simultaneously driving me batty!<br />
When three gang up all asking for the same thing... it doesn't take much to make me give in and pull up the photos they want to see on the computer. Scrolling through them and hearing their excited shouts as they recognize themselves and friends. That's what got me in trouble. I left them with the pictures. I thought it might be safe, since I was still sitting in front of the computer. Nope. <br />
Happily, it only took me three tries to rectify the problem. Still not sure how they accomplished it, but luckily it wasn't a complete wipe of my files! <br />
Fixed and forgiven... we stopped looking through the pictures but they weren't ready to leave my company. Instead they decided on a language lesson. One spoke french enough to tell me what she wanted/was saying. The rest were working on my "Malinke". Point at their nose, my nose, say the word, make me repeat it. I do, they move on. (and I promptly forgot). Next body part, next body part, word after word, stumbled over as I attempt to copy the slurred and distorted pronunciation of a little one whose lip was just operated on, and another little one missing a tooth and lisping. They giggled and hopped about, and made the moment memorable by their enthusiasm. I really wish I could remember these languages that people here are always trying to teach me. But instead, I just enjoy the moments of connection and laughter. <br />
These are the children that know what it is to be different. Some born with clefts that split their mouths or faces, others with growths that distort their features, still others with scarring from burns. Delicate surgeries replace what was lost, fix what was distorted. Days of healing, of convincing them that medications will help, that soft diets or bedrest is good for them. Days of making faces across the wards and balloon volleyball and sticker therapy. As they heal, their energy levels rise and we see them blossom. Here they come and find that there are others like them. Here they play like normal children. Here we embrace them as they are, and so they run into our arms and won't let go. Beauty from ashes. <br />
I pray that they pay it forward. That they find ways to embrace and uplift those they meet as they grow up. That the seeds planted here would mature and blossom over time into something stronger and better than I could ever imagine for them.<br />
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Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13637200115799047433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206076247766846394.post-20700748053836524992013-04-06T11:41:00.000-05:002013-04-06T11:41:50.162-05:00Observations on shiplifeLiving on a ship has unique challenges and solutions. It has all the aspects of a metal building, combined with those of vehicle. Add in the fact that all supplies are obtained either from containers that are ordered ahead of time and then take weeks to months to travel the world, finally sitting in the hot sun for days to weeks until they can be cleared by customs. If they are needed immediately, supplies are bought locally which results in a wide variety of qualities and prices to choose from... if you're lucky. <br />
On the up side, the ship is crewed by creative people ready and willing to deal with the large variety of challenges we face. For instance, what happens when we run out of chocolate...<br />
Hmmm, perhaps that was a bad place to start, we just cry and deal with it until the next container comes. When we run out of Ensure though, we make our own! Ensure is a supplement to replace meals for patients that are unable to eat for a period of time. With so many facial surgeries on board, there are a lot of patients that take a break from any chewing, and so are started on liquids. Did you know milk, peanut butter, multivitamins, fiber and sugar can be blended together to make a tasty replacement for ensure? Just don't use chunky peanut butter, it doesn't go down tubes so well! Just sayin'!<br />
What about when the toilet won't flush. Normally you'd go for the plunger as the first line defense. Not here. All of our toilets (and plumbing) are on a vacuum system. This means that you hit a button, the vacuum switches on, a horribly loud vacuum starts up, and WHOOSH, the toilet is flushed. If the button doesn't work... sometimes you wait a minute and it works again (only so many vacuums can go at the same time). Otherwise, you try running some water in your sink, and see if the vacuum in your area is functioning. If not, it's time to leave a work request for the plumber. <br />
Sometimes the toilets don't flush on the ward. This means trying to get our patients, who think we have the height of technology, believe that we need to wait to get things fixed. Not used to flushing toilets, they just might continue to use them until things get... um... full. <br />
Or what about air conditioning. It's all set to be best for "everyone", and so if you are closer to an air conditioning room, you get a colder room, or if you are higher in the ship it's warmer (more sunshine), unless you're on deck 2 in which case you feel the heat coming from the engine rooms. Being in a metal box in Africa means if there is any interruption in air conditioning, we all feel it. When it's out, the heat becomes moist and suffocating, turning floors and walls slick with condensation and reminding us just how hot it is here. The other day when we had an interruption in air conditioning, my patients started complaining. I reminded them that they were used to the African heat, and this shouldn't be a problem for them. To my amusement, the response was "On the ship we are supposed to be in America, when we go outside then we will be in Africa again!" They like the air conditioning. It's really the lack of air flow that makes it a problem. So I got fans for the ward until things resolved and everyone was much happier.<br />
One fascinating side (for me at least) is how we have all been conditioned to a number of things, like Pavlov's dog. For starters, we have set meal times. You can't get dining room food outside of these times, so it's easiest to eat at these times. I didn't think I was that conditioned, until yesterday as I was busy with something else and noticing that I was HUNGRY(empty gut churning hungry), but thought it was far too early for supper. Then I looked at my watch and realized that it was time for supper. Conditioned. Another thing that we all respond to without question is the overhead announcements. The dining room is normally loud with conversation, but all it takes is the overhead tones that precede an announcement and all conversation stops... you could hear a pin drop! <br />
There is also the fact that we are on a ship, and not always stable. There is a constant vibration due to the generators that means the lab has trouble finding accurate scales for tiny measurements. There is the way the ship moves when a random wave hits that leaves you thinking you have a poor sense of balance. Or the way that the captain chooses to balance the fuel and water in the tanks that often leaves us at a slight tilt. Which occasionally gets changed as we refuel and then we're all confused by things rolling in the opposite direction from "normal." Terms like "gangway," "crew mess," "galley," "purser," "crew," "cabin," "berth," "aft/stern/forward/starboard/port," "bridge," "bunkering," "deck," "list," and "porthole" all become part of normal language. Some kids that grow up on the ship don't realize that you can have a "bed" in a "room" instead of a berth in a cabin.<br />
I could go on... but for now, I must say I'm just thankful to be able to spend downtime on the top deck, watching the sunset with good friends.<br />
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Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13637200115799047433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206076247766846394.post-86159911014294647422013-03-31T13:18:00.000-05:002013-03-31T13:18:06.853-05:00Dr. Seuss and the Fizzy Mango: A bedtime story from Africa<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Gaze at stars up in the sky, </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Rock to baboon lullaby!</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Fizzy mango would you eat?</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Or some donuts from the street?</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Do not eat your street food bland!</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Please add spices (and some sand)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Would you, could you in the sun</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Coffee on the beach is fun!</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Would you, could you in a boat? </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Would you, could you with a goat?</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Would you, could you wade through muck,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">garbage, fish and not get stuck?</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You would not, could not, so you say.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Try it, try it and you may!</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Travel to the beach and see,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">How fun my Africa can be!</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">*Theme inspired by being in a boat with a goat... all of it is based on fact.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Hanging out, waiting for a friend who knew a beach... but he got a flat tire and never came!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So some kids joined us.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And we had some fun with them.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They wanted to have pictures, and giggled away when they saw them on the camera screens.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And they needed to try on our sunglasses!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After a bit we continued down the path...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The public boats over included rental of lifejackets... we discovered they make great padding against backpack straps!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We had a long trail, and didn't know where we would stop, just knew we wanted a beach!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Off of this trail, we found a smaller trail, about the width of a deer trail!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So we followed it...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And after numberous forks and random selections that led us down steep drop-offs</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We found a beach!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All to ourselves</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We hung hammocks high in the palm trees.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And taught our friends to climb in upside down.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Which requires some practice!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mosquito nets were hung</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We climbed in and got comfortable</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We set up the hammocks in a circle, sharing all the same trees</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Which made the neighbor's hammock shake each time we moved!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The sand was hot enough to heat our instant coffee!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And our return boat ride had the bonus of a couple goats as passengers!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Goats got to be carried into the boat!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So we settled in the front for a short (half-hour) trip back to Conakry.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Arriving at low tide, which means wading in from the boat</span></td></tr>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Community, what does that mean to you? I’ve been thinking a lot about it recently. Growing up, the definition that came to mind would have been the neighborhood that I grew up in. Simple. Except, recently, I’ve been thinking deeper. Not just what is a community, as can be defined by a dictionary (taken from the dictionary on my computer):</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1 a group of people living together in one place, esp. one practicing common ownership</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">2 [usu. with adj. ] a group of people having a religion, race, profession, or other particular characteristic in common </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">3 a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals : the sense of community that organized religion can provide.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">There are so many layers to community. There are moments where I would like to define it by what we have here on the ship. This is a community, and for all of our problems and downfalls, we function very well. We are, as defined above, are a group of people living in one place, having a characteristic in common (wanting to help the forgotten poor), and we are interdependent... for all the functions of daily living on the ship. We fit most definitions of community. And yet... </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I step onto the wards, where we mix all of our cultures from around the world and from the country that we are nestled on the edge of, and I soak in the difference that exists here. I learn to redefine community and to wish that this existed everywhere. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I watch a young man have a temper tantrum when he can’t have rice (a local staple, that if he ate it could compromise his healing), and as those around him realize the problem, one by one they tell him how they went without rice as well. How they followed our directions and went 3 weeks, 5 weeks, 5 months without rice. One after another calling out encouragement, reminding him that others have done this before him. And I think - this is how community should act. Encouraging each other, lifting each other up, willing to share our troubles to help others get through them. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I watch one patient speak up to translate for another (sometimes as many as 3 or 4 people needed to translate one to another until a phrase can make it from the speaker to the one who needs to hear the words), willing and eager to ensure the other’s voice is heard, wanting to help however they can. This is how community should act, speaking up for each other, being the voice for someone who doesn’t have a voice. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I see a patient slip and start to fall, and another reaches out to catch them before they can get hurt. I see many helping to encourage, play with, talk with, and hold the many children on the ward. Distant relatives or neighbors or the caregiver in the next bed, all willing to help look after a child who needs surgery. The flow of help and kindness... this is how it should be.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It’s not perfect, there are arguments and yelling matches. There are moments of discipline that seem to go a little too far. There are stubborn patients and caregivers that just don’t want to learn what will help them heal faster or better. But there is a spark of greatness I see in this place. And I wonder sometimes if the patients bring this with them, or if we encourage it in them by treating them with kindness in the first place. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It doesn’t matter really. I’m just in love with the community that we’re growing on the wards, even as it changes daily, it’s an amazing place to be!</span></span></div>
Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13637200115799047433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206076247766846394.post-58502382399900552642013-03-16T12:54:00.001-05:002013-03-16T12:54:16.335-05:00I Lub You<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“I lub you!” echoes across the room in the shrill tones of a two-year-old boy, followed by a smacking noise as he brings his hand to his pursed lips and blows a kiss, just like we’ve taught him. He flashes a cheeky grin as if he knows exactly what he’s saying and looks up at us through mischievous eyes. In no time flat he’s up and off to his next adventure, whether it’s whacking someone in the head with a balloon that has been blown up just for him, or trying to push me in a rolling chair to some other random part of the room, or running to tell his mother that someone he doesn't know is taking water from their “home” (the ward). </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I’ve started calling him the “Petit prince” or little prince, and somebody went ahead and made him his own little paper crown the other day, which I’m sure will be ripped into pieces by the end of the day. He doesn’t speak any english or french, other than what we’ve taught him to say, but he will jabber away in Susu gesturing through the whole thing and stamp his little feet if we don’t understand what he wants. He’s learning to use gestures and actions more often to get his point across, like the other day when the nurse took his book away for being rough with it, and he came to me and pointed at her. He kept saying.... something... frustrated and pointing at her as if I was supposed to take care of his problem. Finally he grabbed my finger and pulled me towards her, pointing at the book and looking back and forth between her and I. He got his point across, now how were we to explain the discipline? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">His mother is one of the sweetest women I’ve ever met, and she loves every one of us that works on the ward. I get a daily hug and kiss on the cheek as I arrive and questions (in french) on how I’m doing with a report on how her son is doing. Her french is at about the same level as mine, and so while we can talk, it never gets to a very deep level. She loves her son fiercely, even if she has asked some of the nurses if they want to take him home with them since he is so hard to control. She is constantly thanking us for everything we’ve done. And no matter how I explain who I am, she is convinced I’m the doctor in charge of her son’s care. When we change his dressings, he screams and calls us evil people, and afterwards she comes and kisses us on the cheeks to thank us for helping him. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Most days when she sees me, his mother will ask her little boy if he loves me. He will either say yes or no, depending on his mood and whether I’ve had to reprimand him already that morning for throwing things at people or running away with the scissors from the desk. Without fail, though, when I hold out my hand and ask him to come for a walk with me, he happily joins me on an adventure to stop by another ward or visit one of the hospital offices as I’m running my daily errands. And one day after giving him scrap paper that he proceeded to scribble all over and fill with holes, he went to his mother and accused me of “ruining” it. So she came and told me, and got into a boxing pose, hopping around like a child and pretending she was going to beat me up for messing with her child’s paper. Laughing and laughing through the whole thing. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> The two of them bring an element of fun and joy to the ward, as the little prince slowly heals. They’ve blessed me so much, and make me eager to be on the ward and greet them every day. Today I slipped down to say "hello" and he happily greeted me and waved me over, so he could carefully apply about 8 smiley face stickers to my arms and face. I can't get enough of his sweetness some days! And yet, I know they have family at home, and I know this is not where they belong. It’s a fine line between enjoying the presence of our patients and their family, and rejoicing in their ability to go home healed. As he continues to heal, a small part of me is already mourning the fact that the goodbyes will come soon. I pray that their time with us will plant seeds, in them, their family, their homes. That truth and love would take root in their hearts. That he would grow into a man as loving and kind as his mother.</span></div>
Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13637200115799047433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206076247766846394.post-57107833521241746932013-02-23T08:50:00.001-06:002013-02-23T08:50:36.207-06:00These are the momentsI have moments... moments when I am ready to leave this place, to move on, to live a normal life. I have moments when I just can't do it anymore, to be so far from family, to miss out on my friends' changing lives, to say goodbye to one more person on the ship. I have moments when all I want to do is hide, and be and forget why I am here. I have moments when I question if I am needed, or if things wouldn't run just as well without my presence. <br />
And then I step back onto the wards, and my heart is at peace. I am where I am supposed to be and there are no questions. I cannot describe to you the rightness of those moments. The happy greeting of the dayworkers who greet me like I am their long-lost best friend EVERY SINGLE DAY that I see them. The nurses who somehow always seem to be in the mood to work, who complain when they don't get to spend their workday on the ward. The patients... with their thankfulness, their smiles... and most of all, their hope. How can I look in their eyes and ever imagine that I am in the wrong place? I greet them, and even making the effort to say hello in their own language is enough to make them glow with excitement and happily greet me back. And when I don't have the words or the language, reaching out with a handshake or hug or even a hand on their shoulder... speaks volumes. <br />
The small children that I've never met before who let me pick them up and happily cuddle in. The older children who grab a stool and settle themselves beside me at my desk, eager to learn, to glean, to be near. The adults who figure out that I speak french and won't let me work because they just want to visit with me, tell me about themselves, learn about me. The community that develops on the wards... it drips of expectation and acceptance. <br />
I think what touches me most is watching the untouchables change. They come in with their problems, the growths, the tumours, the leaking, the deformities, the smells... these are why they come, what they think they are here to fix. The true challenge is to stop the lies that run through their heads, the untruths they have heard as long as they can remember... that is what we work the hardest to treat. They are told: you are worthless, you are cursed, you are a burden, you are evil, you cannot come near me, you cannot go to school, you should not be seen, you cannot be helped, you are not lovable. And so, even before they step onto the ward, our true work begins.<br />
We begin by inviting them to be seen, we look them in the eye, we offer them hope. On the wards, a smile, a touch, a kind word, a game... all the beginning of breaking down the walls around their hearts. Our secret challenge: can I get this one to smile at me or laugh? Can I make her understand that she is WORTH my time, that she is lovable? Can I make him see that I recognize the human behind the hurt?<br />
Little by little, action by action, as we pour out love and acceptance, change happens. To see the melancholy child break out with giggles... priceless. To find the quirky smile hidden beneath the sadness of a woman who has known rejection for more years than I have been alive... melts my heart. To see the dignity return to the man who has used scarves and towels to hide behind... beautiful. <br />
I can't describe how it changes you, to pour out love to such a measure and yet feel that the love that comes back to you is beyond measuring. When you see the beauty behind the deformity and help someone to realize their true worth... that is why we are here... that is the healing we are aiming for. And if we happen to make some physical changes happen as well, then praise the Lord, for HE is good! Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13637200115799047433noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206076247766846394.post-52784020301344124592013-02-18T13:49:00.001-06:002013-02-18T15:13:29.535-06:00I see the beauty<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Light dances on the water and time slips through my fingers like they’ve been thoroughly drenched in olive oil. I look back and wonder how I got this far in life and how in the world the life I live could have become routine. But it did and it has. And so I step back and look for the beauty once again, and I can tell you that it overflows my cup in so very many ways that to sit here and mention it all could take me the whole day.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I see beauty in the sunrise out the porthole, as I eat my breakfast.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I see the beauty in the short walk (seconds, literally) back to my cabin to brush my teeth after breakfast.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I see the beauty in the friend who I thought I had said goodbye to forever who is back on board.(and in the laughter we shared and the fun of looking up the 60 minutes video online!) </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I see the beauty in the eager faces of my nurses, waiting for their chance to screen patients. (seriously, how often do we get excited to work at home??? I LOVE the attitude of people here!)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I see the beauty of being able to work with friends!!!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I see the beauty of the day workers, who insist on greeting you before they do anything else(and are SO excited to see us every day)... if only I were better at that... it’s the people around you that matter most.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I see the beauty in the eager faces that get ushered into the screening room, hoping that we can help them.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I see the beauty of the community spirit that has people verbally tripping over each other to help translate the obscure languages that others speak, wanting more than anything to make sure that the other person is heard.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I see the beauty in being able to meet a new surgeon who I’ve never met before and work together with him, with the same goal, and being seen as a partner or equal, instead of a servant (as some surgeons will treat nurses.)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I see the beauty of the hospital chaplains, so eager to help, with all the words I don’t have. There to help explain to patients the condition that we see and why we can’t or don’t need to do surgery. (and the wonder of not having very many people to say no to today)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I see the beauty of the child tied to her mother’s back, secure and content in that spot of comfort. A practice that allows the mother to work and still keep the baby close and cared for.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I see the beauty in my ability to speak french and hear a person’s story in their own words and not through a translator. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I see the beauty in our ability to help. How amazing is that. To be able to help, to make a difference in their lives, to take away the deformity that causes pain or leaves them an outcast.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I see the beauty in the time out to pray and do devotions with the other team leaders.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I see the beauty in the community where I can eat lunch with a different person every day... or enjoy it with close friends. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I see the beauty in the faces around me, the friends who have given up so much to be here, and yet have gained so very much more from the ones they thought they had come to serve.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I see the beauty in the new nurse, who hasn’t been here before, as she eagerly questions and learns how we do things on the wards.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I see the beauty in the patient, fresh from surgery who looks around for someone, anyone who speaks french, and as I say that I speak french, the one thing he so desperately wants to say? “Merci!” (Thank-you)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I see the beauty in the many cultures, accents, people that I work with every day. So very different, and yet using those differences to find a harmony.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I see the beauty in the little curtained off space I can call my own. (about 6x6 square feet).</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I see the beauty in sharing my cabin with two amazing friends.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I see the beauty in my friend’s baby who crawls up to me at dinner and wants to be picked up and played with, plump hands grabbing at everything, laughter that shakes her body and splits her face in a snaggle-toothed grin.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I see the beauty in the little things. Do you?</span></div>
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