Wonderful Sunday

3/21
Today was such a great day! We got up early to leave for the Miami Hospital at 6:30, only our driver was late so we left at 7:30 instead. I spent the day (about 10 hours) feeding 3 premie babies in the NICU who share an incubator. The first was Julienne. She was the only one of triplets to survive. She is 13 days old and now weighs about 2.5 pounds (she came in at 1.5 pounds). These babies were so tiny. One was able to drink her bottle, very slowly, but she could do it. The other 2 were fed through feeding tubes. Vivian was the nurse in charge of the NICU and she was great. She really welcomed Sue Ann and I and made us feel useful, wanted, and a part of the team. We were running out of diapers and the shipment of more wasn't going to come until tomorrow. Then miracle of miracles, a girl walks in with some friends and bags full of premie size diapers and clothes! They had told Target that premie babies in Haiti at this hospital had nothing to wear so they cleared their shelves and sent down anything premie that they had. They came just in time. A little boy that had come in the other night with pneumonia was being worked on a lot today. Being Sunday, a few church groups were there. They stood over this baby boy and sang and prayed for him. I'm not sure what they were saying, but I think they were trying to cast out whatever it was that was making him sick. At the same time, some guys walked in with shirts on that said, "Scientology Volunteer Ministers." Kind of ironic that they were at a hospital, but go figure. A little girl came in today who was a recent amputee. She was told they were going to have to amputate her other leg as well. She was hysterical. It was so sad to watch. Also, the lady from the other night that they were going to take off life support was finally taken off today. I'm not sure why they waited so long, but they did.