the man who saved my life :)

Today my team split up and I was placed on a bus to head out to an IDP (internally displaced people) camp. To paint a small picture, it is a flat dry dusty area of land with thousands of ppl displaced from their homes r/t the earthquake living with even more of nothing than they had before. This blog is entitled "the man who saved my life" b/c the team was treating pts. on our mobile unit and we heard screaming and two ppl carried a bleeding lifeless woman to our tent/bus. She was just hit by a car we were now the first responders. Quickly we decided she was pulseless and lifeless, not a reaction. An IV was immergently placed and CPR initiated. We called an ambulance and she was rushed away. The situation got complicated when another woman, her friend went into shock and started seizing. Two of our Dr's and RN's broke away to care for her. I was holding ppl back from the women and I saw a woman collapse in front of me. I jumped over the rope and dove to catch her but I didn't. Piere, the Haitian interpereter who was working with me, grabbed my scrub top and followed me into the croud to help the woman. My pulse was racing and I yelled for Barry, a journalist traveling with us (check out worldnextdoor.org to learn more about his role) I had two men with me one to translate and one to protect and I was able to figure out that she had a pre-existing heart condition and "faints many days" as it was translated to me. A sternal rub arroused her and I was able to get fluids started. She was carried home by her sister and all was well. The UN guys came back to thank us for calling and told us that the girls in the accident were alive. Praise God!!! I walked back to the bus and we all hugged eachother and got on with seeing patients. As we were riding home on the bus I looked at Piere the interpereter, whom God spared from the earthquake, although many of his friends and family are gone. I tossed my last pack of trail mix to piere and said, " hey man thanks for saving my life.