Well, today was my last scheduled work day here...we were short of staff. There is always a constant flow of people coming in and out. I was the only mental health provider so I saw patients all day with my interpreter. Many of the people are dealing with 3 layers of distress...the trauma of the earthquake and everything coming down around them, the loss of their relatives under the rubble, and the fact that they are now having to live out on the street with perhaps not even a shelter, and a lack of food and water. I teach them some coping skills. Let them know they are not crazy and that over time their minds will gradually heal.
Tomorrow we are scheduled to have someone take us in a van to Santa Domingo starting at 8 am. I hope he shows up. Tonight we are having the first sustained rain of the trip. I am trying not to consider the possiblity of landslides in the mountains on the road we will have to travel on through the mountains of Dominican Republic. Anyway it should be an adventure.
PLEASE PRAY FOR THEIR SAFE RETURN.
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