Another Prayer Update from Haiti - Specific requests

Hello family and friends,

Thank you for the prayers today. Great news! The diesel got to the hospital before they lost power. YEA! The entire facility is run by diesel generator right now, so that diesel was critical! The things we don't ever have to think about here (except as a snow storm approaches...).

Anyway, the team has been getting some sicker patients today. I don't have a lot of details, but please pray. God knows the details!

• They are seeing child after child with a lot of nausea and vomiting. You can imagine, all those people living in high stress conditions in very close quarters. Any illness will spread quickly. Pray against this illness and for the kids - that they do not become dehydrated.
• Chronically ill patients. Medications for the chronically ill are not readily available (Rob mentioned this a couple days ago). Today they treated a diabetic with a blood sugar of 25-30 (often fatal). Tough situation.
• Another patient today with a bad stroke. Here in the U.S., there are meds and protocols to improve the prognosis for people who suffer strokes, but the doctors there don't have access to any of that.
• A 27 year old woman who was in a building when it collapsed. She was rescued late that night, but suffered a crushed pelvis. Surgeons operated on her pelvis yesterday, but she continues to bleed but not sure from where. Her hemoglobin is only 3.4. Normal for women is 12-16.
• The team requests prayer for mental energy. Seeing so many patients, many of whom they can't help the way they would like, is exhausting. The heat, it was 93.4 degrees today, also wears them down.

Praises too:

• Bradley, one of the team members, fell into the roll of communications with other facilities and was able to locate blood for the 27-year old mentioned above. Without the transfusion, she would have died. He also helped get a patient to the USS Comfort.
• And of course, the diesel!!!

Rob has the overnight shift at the hospital tonight. He'll be busy with the patients mentioned above. Please pray for him to have clear thoughts. God is the Great Physician. Pray that He guides all the medical team in these tough conditions. He can heal what we can't. I'll update later if I hear any more news.

Thanks, Bradley, for taking some of your precious free time to share with me... Thanks, Amanda, for sharing him for a few minutes :) Friendship... that's another praise!