Archive for February, 2010

Haiti Trip

Feb 14th

Posted by Nancy in Haiti Updates

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I decided to go to Haiti for I was hearing about all the crushing injuries and just knew that PT skills would be needed. Many were saying that there was no need at this time for PT but I knew from all the reports of amputations and fractures that initial care from a PT can make all the difference in the patients totally recovery. I was going to go alone because I really had no plans for where I would end up working and to take a group with no plans for their safety or well being was not a great idea. As I began planning my trip, Victor Banta, Engineer and Photographer, Hell, MI, Tiffani Bacon, Pediatric PT, Charlotte, NC, Kirsten Benya, PT, Saint Louis, MO, and Ashley Brewer, former Peace Corps Volunteer and currently Alcohol Saleswoman, Saint Louis, MO all expressed a great need to join me. They were all aware that this was a logistics trip and plans were nonexistent. I knew a little about Victor Banta while the rest of the volunteers were total strangers, but when you have a group passionate for an adventure, everything tends to fall into place.
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Haiti Update

Feb 6th

Posted by Nancy in Haiti Updates

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We are working at Fond Parisien at Love A Child in Haiti. All patients are in tents donated by Taiwan. We have a tent hospital, surgery in 2 tents, intensive care, and approx 70 other tents of patients living together in groups of 3-6 per tent on thin mats on floor and a few cots. Ninety percent are ortho cases and all need PT. We have 47 external fixation fractures, 29 amputations, pelvic fractures, infected wounds and the list goes on. It’s challenging getting people off the floor to stand with 1 arm casted and external fixators on 1 or 2 legs plus the fact that they haven’t gotten up since the quake. My 2 other PTs-Kerstin and Tiffany plus Victor and Ashley are the only people assisting with physical therapy at this time.
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