Then about 9:30ish 3 more trauma patients came in via something. There was a bad motorcycle accident at a nearby market. I guess 2 motorcycles got together (probably head on). One young man died (has a young family) and 3 came here. One of the 3 (a young man) coded on them, he also lost his left eye (I think it's the same one?) and is a friend of one of our interpreters. So that kept the docs busier than Fridays normally are. They didn't get back to the house tonight till after 10 and Dr Rudolph had 2 more surgeries to go. Rudy said they did over 40 procedures this week.
Fortunately, incoming PT really slows up by the end of the week so Jennifer was able to help with the traumas. Today was more than they hoped for.
I started off by hooking up the generator in the guest house to turn the refrigerator on and then I took 2 of the maintenance guys and the swimmer back down to the reservoir to attempt the power restoration process. They rigged up a 25' piece of chain link fence rail with a pitch fork jammed in the end for our sea weed rake. Tossed it on top of the truck and off we were. They were not happy campers to be messing with this again, but they did because I was there. After about an hour of them dragging sea weed out, I hiked down to the hydro with the operator, and boy was that a hike! My grand canyon hike prepared me for this one (although this one was much shorter but more difficult). It's too bad the whole group wasn't able to go this afternoon because of the traumas that came in, since the scenery was awesome with huge white boulders in the valley. Unfortunately my camera broke yesterday :-( Anyway, the operator opened the main valve, threw the switch and walla, we had power. Not sure if the seaweed had anything to do with it or not, but it's on now.
Later in the afternoon some of the group played frisbee with a few of the staff/helpers in the courtyard. And I finally was able to put my cart of crutch parts away. Then around 5:45 we had some more fun outside in the courtyard. Hopefully the docs won't read this part, because we took 2 of the recovery patients and did a barrel race across the lawn. We had been trying to get them more active and outside all week for therapy. Somehow I don't think barrel racing is in the normal PT script. And I really hope they don't try that when we're gone...especially the one with the external fixator!
What do you know, but they didn't forget about my engagement testimony, so we did that after we ate. I guess I don't mind sharing it since one of my prayers was for a marriage of faith as a testimony to others. So I need to be willing now. Then the midwest girls and I went back to the hospital and sang 2 songs to baby David's family before heading back to the house to pack, shower (you just don't get use to those cold showers) and get ready for a 4:45 morning departure...boy am I envious, but being with family the next 2 days will help.
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