Quiet nights

Thursday I went back to the God's Children's home construction project. Things are coming along. My job for the day was removing nails from the framing that was being taken down from one of the houses.

Thursday night began my block of night shifts--two 10 hour shifts, then two 12 hour shifts for Sat. and Sun. It is really not as bad as it sounds as there is much more down time than at home. Ashley brought her laptop so we watched movies from 3am-5am. Thursday we watched another movie on Liberia and Friday we watched Jurassic Park which believe it or not I have never seen! We kept the sound down very low and put the captions on so that we could hear the patients and pause the movie if they needed anything.

At 5:45am a nurse down the hall had an emergency with one of the patients. He had had an extensive mouth surgery due to Ludwig's Angina and was having trouble breathing. She called 911. The receptionist made a large overhead page for the emergency response team to come to the ward. The response was amazing!! Several doctors, nurses, and anesthesiologists responded immediately. I was shocked at how fast these people had gotten out of bed and came to the ward. The patient ended up going to the OR and having a tracheostomy tube put in and he is currently doing ok. When I went up for breakfast, Dr. Gary Parker had written a note on the board by the gangway with a brief explanation of the emergency and thanked everyone for their prayers. (This is because everyone on board hears the overhead emergency.) When I went for breakfast I heard at least 3 people say that they started praying when they heard the announcement. That is so awesome. To have a ship full of people praying for you in an emergency.