Heavy stuff in Haiti - hope this makes it on the blog!!!! Dictated on the phone...!!!!

Hi! Here's what is happening!

We landed last night, we landed at 1 or 2am. We had to get all our cargo from the airplane ourselves. Literally, I climbed into the cargo pit and were the one throwing the things off the airplane. We made an assembly line to receive it all.

We have food, gear and water but you still have to figure out what you need because there is no shops or something. The logistics of where, what everyone is doing is still a little bit messy but it’s okay.

We went to the hospital today all day long. I was responsible of the team that went to the hospital and we were there from about 11am to 7pm. The hospital, this is the general hospital, the biggest hospital in the area. All the buildings were evacuated because of the 6.1 earthquake that happened a couple of days ago so people, everybody was outside, laying in the park, which is a giant square, that hospital, has a giant park in the middle, so everyone is laying in the park.

So literally you would be walking on the sidewalk and there is patients sitting there with their legs amputated. Pretty intense, and all the people were outside, some of them had just given birth. And some passed out after they gave birth. We got 16 Scientology Volunteer Ministers including myself to go there and we gave easily, not exaggerated, about 80 or 90 assists. Just non-stop giving assists to everybody, and all in French. There were people that literally, I was giving an assist to one lady who had – no joke – holes the size of two golf balls, that deep in her leg that you could see her bones. Just a giant hollow spot in her leg from what I guess has been stabbed in her leg. And she couldn’t feel her knee when I first started giving her the assist, every time when I touched her in that area she, I would say “feel my finger”, she couldn’t feel that area. By the time we finished she could feel that area. Really cool things that.

Basically we did that and we established this thing with one of the main hospitals, the Director of Sanitation for Haiti basically told us “we want you to help us”, and work in there with the doctors. So we went into ICU [Intensive Care Unit], five of us, which means “Intensive Care Unit”, but I am talking really intensive care unit, and the five of us were in there. I was in charge of those five people, and we took care of them, made sure they got food, made sure they were getting taken care of. We were carrying people on stretchers all around the place, taking them to get x-rays and we were really in. there. With our hands full. One time we were the ones that took two people to the ward that had just died!!!

It’s quite a little war zone. But you know what, everything is really organized and everybody says “cool, these guys seem to know what they are doing and they are helping”. So, they were saying “Scientology, what are you guys doing here?” And we “we’re here to help”. And they: “cool”. Yeah.

It’s so bizarre. I was one of the people who had to check the pulse of one of the people that died. And I was “she’s dead now, alright”. I am getting through with everything I see and let me tell you I saw some really bad stuff.

There was a guy that, if you stopped shaking him he would die! So I sat there shaking him for half an hour because if he fell asleep he would die, right. And I am saying “Jean-Pierre, bon jour! Bon Jour!” And shake him to keep him alive. I ended up doing this for half an hour and he was pretty much unconscious when I arrived and when I left he was sitting up saying “I love America!”. And that was really cool and he obviously did not die, right!

So basically that’s what happens and that’s what we did with that. Same five people are going to be there all week helping run that ICU unit. Together with the Doctor Brown. And we actually have a nighttime team as well. We have two Volunteer Ministers that are staying there at night, from 7pm to 7am. They are in charge of 24 Intensive Care Unit people.

More when I can get to a phone again! We need to get internet up soon so I can get to my emails!!!!