2/2/2010  Received another email from Joe last night. He wrote that the internet at sketchy at best and very slow. Reported that the new crew is going well, but maybe not quite as well as the crew that was there last week. He indicated Mondays are always bad for multiple reasons. The Haitian docs hold clinics and they send the crew anything earthquake related. Mondays are also an x-ray day which involves transporting x-ray patients. I don't know where they transport them to or how they're doing it. There's also orientation for the new team. 

He wrote, "Tomorrow I am going to Port-au-Prince with Terry, a 4th yearr ER resident, much more organized than his years. We will try to get some things we need for cases and maybe more patients, but right now we have a backlog of 15 procedures. They did 4 femurs today, big cases. I have so much to tell you about but this is so slow (assuming he means the internet).  I do not know when I will be home. Dr. Binkley is not coming til Friday. I may try to come back with this crew Saturday. Terry is staying for a month and will be the continuity."  I wonder about him being in Port au Prince today and what he's seeing, hearing, learning.

Joe's original plane ticket had a March 10 return date, it was changed to February 14, he's now learned American isn't flying until February 19, yet there may be a possibility he can return to the states sometime this weekend. I think I'll wait to pick him up (in Omaha? Lincoln? Kansas City?) once I know he's somewhere in the U.S. 

 

Thank you, everyone, for your prayers for him, the teams, the patients.