The hospital is open, surgeries are happening, and we have patients! After three months of transition, this ship is doing exactly what it was designed to do! It is exciting to see what is happening just down the hall on deck 3! All of this began last Monday.
On Monday there were five eye surgeries and many VVF patients were admitted. All day long there were nurses under the tent out on the dock checking people’s vitals before they came onboard. As I went about my day on the ship, I would walk past the new patients on the stairs or in the lobby. It was different for me, but this will soon become normal too.
To see a few pictures and read some stories about this, you can check it out at www.mercyships.org by clicking here. (It’s a really well maintained site.) If you watch the video following the first patient on this vessel you’ll see my friend, and across the hall neighbour Naomi helping the patient up the gangway. Our paths crossed on the steps as they headed down to the hospital to remove her protective eye patch. Later in the afternoon when our first patient was doing fine, I went for a run and saw her as she began to walk out of the port back home. Again, these things are becoming normal. We have a large medical staff of doctors, nurses, technicians and the like on board right now. It is wonderful to see them working so diligently.
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