A Bit of Frustration

Hello all,
This is Ashley writing. Praise God that today Sarah has a good day sickness wise. Pray for her that she will feel well enough to help with a local VBS coming up this Thursday. She would really like to go if she feels up to it. We had lunch at another young family’s house. He is in the middle of surgery residency and she is a mom of a 2 year old who is to deliver again in November. We had an excellent supper tonight. Sarah found some big potatoes a man was selling so we had baked potatoes with seasoned pork loin.
I had a long day at work. After helping round on some of the inpatient service, I went to help over in casualty, which is what the ER is called here. It has 7 beds and 2 nurses. At first I helped the CO (PA equivalent) with a few difficult patients. I am still getting used to the pace of receiving back labs and orders slower than I am used to. The sick children bothered me the most. I saw a 4 year old boy with a large neck mass. He will probably be okay. Then I a saw an 18 month old, which is Maggie's age. This baby was going to have a cleft palate repair at a local hospital and on the table seized and has not been responsive for 3 days. It was hard to hold back tears as I gave some orders and asked for the chaplain to come in. Another things is that there is no such thing as a consult, but people can just show up with papers from another hospital. Lots of folks come here in bad shape expecting to be healed. Fortunately here these patients will hear the Gospel message. There were a few other frustrations, but I am sure they are things that I will get used to in the future.