yesterday we expected to have a pretty easy day and get the last of the patients out of the icu but the day really didn't go as we had planned. during the night the hosptial had to admit two patients into the icu, which we happen to be sharing with them, so we had to cram four beds into one small room to make room for their patients. what we soon learn was that when someone in one of those beds gets sick and needs an x-ray, echo and lines placed it's quite complicated. after a few hours we finally got all of that under control and thought things were going to settle down but that wasn't exactly the case. we soon learned that there was a 2 day old baby boy at another hospital in town that was very blue with sats in the 50's. we didn't have the supplies that we needed to operate on him and even if we did our anesthesiologist and perfusionist had already left and we were all getting ready to leave so there would be no one to care for him. we knew that there was a procedure we could do to buy him time but if we didn't have a way to repair his heart soon there was no reason for us to do this procedure. lori got on the phone and arranged for him to go to new york in the next few weeks so we agreed to do what we could. there were many risk involved but we said lots of prayers and i'm happy to say all went well. he's pink and he'll be on his way to the states very soon.
today was our last day with the kids. we went in and sent the last two icu patients to the floor, discharged some home and the rest to the barnabas house where they'll be cared for until they are well enough to go home.
this week was so crazy and there were so many things that could have gone wrong but everything went so well. thank you so much for all of your prayers, we definitely felt them. it's amazing what god can do, there is no way we could have accomplished this without him.
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