Monday, January 25, 2010

Saturday Night Nightmare

Saturday night Jerry and Carla took me to Cite Soleil, which had been a shantytown of perhaps 300,000 before the quake's devastation.


Nothing I have done as a nurse prepared me for this. I debated about whether to post it, but I decided folks at home should see what the Haitian people still live with on a daily -- and massive -- basis:





These are the bones of dead children. Still on the street nine days after the quake. And there was nothing exceptional about this vision.














These people are removing a body. The family is lucky enough to have found a body, and to have a coffin to put it in. Hundreds of nurses and nursing students from Leogane were buried in plastic trash bags -- in parts.