Nary a word about occupation or other things today. It's all how great we are for helping out.
"Defying odds, 8 quake victims arrive in Mass.; Children are suffering from burns, limb injuries" by Stephen Smith and Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe Staff | February 12, 2010
Yesterday, five with mangled limbs were treated at Shriners Hospital for Children in Spring field. Two suffering burns were tended to at Shriners Hospital in Boston. An eighth lay in the intensive care unit at Baystate.
Dr. Ian Goodman said he spoke with the chief of staff at Shriners in Springfield, and “he seemed pretty optimistic that all of the limbs would be saved.’’
Much as the earthquake that leveled Haiti’s impoverished capital a month ago today imposed devastating twists of fate upon its victims, fate has now turned profoundly for the children, between the ages of about 2 and 15.
That the children got out of Haiti was against all odds. It required a passionate doctor, the long-distance interventions of a Wisconsin executive who specializes in getting people out of tight spots, and a phone call to the prime minister’s office....
Yes, a Herculean effort with well-connected friends saved eight. Front-page lead.
The young doctor from Springfield walked the wards of a teeming hospital in Haiti, searching for children whose limbs - and lives - he could save by ferrying them to Massachusetts for treatment. His decisions would forever alter the fortunes of children left battered and broken by last month’s earthquake.
Almost like a God?
On Wednesday at nightfall, a corporate jet, its services provided by an anonymous donor, landed at Bradley International Airport near Hartford carrying eight children - the ones Goodman had selected....
Aboard the jet, the children watched “The Lion King’’ and “The Incredibles.’’ They ate Dunkin’ Donuts.
Yeah, it was such a fun trip.
One girl nibbled at her first chocolate chip cookie, plucking the chips out and sharing them with Goodman.
Now that I do not understand.
These kids have been starving and suffering and the little girl shares food!
What it tells you is what we are at a base level as human beings -- and it is not the trained warrior we are told we are.
It is a COOPERATIVE LOVE for each other that must be DRILLED OUT of your head by MSM PROPAGANDA and AmeriKan MILITARISM!
When the plane landed at Bradley, it taxied into a hangar.
Dr. Peter Kelly of Wilbraham, president of the board of the CRUDEM Foundation, a nonprofit that runs Hopital Sacre Coeur, waited for the plane, with six ambulances, and stuffed animals for the children. “It was like a movie - unbelievable,’’ Kelly said. “The plane pulled in - we were just waiting for them. It was really pretty neat.’’
What is unbelievable is that description. It's real life, sir.
The youngsters, who had never experienced such cold, were swaddled in blankets, necessary because the burned children could not tolerate clothes, and the ones with damaged limbs had bulky metal devices attached that also made it difficult to fit them with clothes.
An added shock to the one they were already in.
Goodman said it was very likely that all of the children went to the operating room yesterday to have dressings changed and wounds cleaned.
Back home in Springfield, the young doctor’s voice occasionally trailed off in weariness. There was much he had seen in his eight days on the island.
I'll bet: Haiti Worse Than a War Zone
“When we were loading the children into the ambulance in Haiti,’’ he said, “there were parents following behind us, trying to get their children in, handing up pieces of paper, telling us the stories of their children.’’
Because they love them.
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MyAssist donated its services, coordinating with the US and Haitian governments, and working around the clock to get permission both to take the children to the United States for medical care and to ensure that they would return to Haiti when they were medically stable. They received permission from the children’s parents, relatives, or legal guardians....
Sounds legit and all.
But nothing is easy today in Haiti, especially for medical workers seeking to transfer patients to US hospitals following the arrest of 10 religious workers from Idaho who were attempting to remove children from the country for adoption....
That will lead you to the post below.
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Related: Halting the Hijacking of Haitian Children
And I thought they forgot it.
Is the BG reading me?
