Strike

Letter on May 14, 2008

Just a quick note to ask you to pray that Dr. Ted will get here tonight so that he can do his clinic tomorrow and I can have a day off and go to town!

There is a strike all over the country and they have closed down all the bridges, so Ted and the Rumbaugh family are all trapped in San Pedro Sula. Some glycine was supposed to be delivered this am so the urology team could do some more surgeries but they won't be able to get here. I am trying to discharge a patient but the daughter can't get here in her car because the bridge is blocked. Then a couple hours ago a pipe broke in the hospital and two rooms are flooded. One was full of cardboard boxes of eyeglasses that were just donated. I just walked into the pharmacy and saw Mike, our head of maintenance, under the sink looking very wet. I just said, "Oh, no. Here too?" and he commented, "when it rains it pours!".

So, please pray that the disgruntled people who are striking today (no one really knows who it is) get tired early and go home so that Ted and the Rumbaugh's can get home tonight!