Haiti Rescues

Here's irony for you- I mentioned here the 75 year old nurse mother of a friend of ours, who was in Haiti during the quake and nobody heard from her for three days, and then she was found and was home safe, no injuries at all.  As a nurse, she'd been doing what she could to help others during those days when nobody heard from her.

She arrived home safely, and a day or two after getting home, slipped on the ice outside her house and broke an arm.

During the earthquake she was at her interpreter's house. I think she had only just walked in, but that's my assumption based on a couple of other things I heard.  The quake started, she was too stunned to do more than drop to her knees and pray. The interpreter yanked her out of the house just as it collapsed around them.  They slept outside over the next few days, and, as I said, did what she could to help, but all she had was tylenol and band-aids, and those were useless for cases like the toddler who was brought to her with internal injuries, who died of them while she watched helplessly. 

This man's survival story (he used his phone app for first aid treatment) is pretty incredible, and sad.  When the earthquake hit, he was in the lobby of a hotel with his friend.  When it was over, he couldn't see his friend, and he crawled to an elevator and holed up there.  They were able to dig him out some sixty hours after the quake.

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