The Unpronouncable Volcano

This whole volcano seems to have turned into quite the event. At first I just thought that this was a bit random, some flights would be delayed, and life would go on. HAHA. Guess the unpronouncable volcano had other ideas. So for now, it makes things quite interesting here. Many nurses and others were supposed to leave last week and are still on board trying to figure out how to reroute or get to Paris...when or if a plane goes. And I am not sure how "high priority" Togo will be on the list of places to fly planes to. The first plane actually left last night and those travelling got a 45 minute warning before they had to leave. Only one person ended up able to go though and the rest came back. Apparently you had to have proof of a place to stay in Paris and a flight out or they wouldn't let you even go to Paris...ugh. I am just happy I am not planning to fly out any time soon!


This does get trickier the longer it goes on. Many nurses who are supposed to be coming have been delayed and even more importatnly Dr. Tertius, our plastic surgoen, is delayed in Amsterdam. He was supposed to have a screening day yesterday and start surgery today. No idea when he'll get here, but probably not until next week at the earliest. The orthopedic surgeon who is stuck here has agreed to stay for the week to do more surgeries, which is a huge blessing. So...while it seems horrible that there will probably be some burn patients who will not get surgery, at least some ortho patients who were not supposed to get surgery will now get it.


The cool thing is knowing that God knew this would all happen and knows who is supposed to get surgery and who will not and will facilitate that. He is bigger than all of this and is actually the one in charge of the volcano in the first place:)


While we were doing hand over at work last night I started singing to the tune of "If you like it than you shoulda put a ring on it".....but changed the lyrics to :


If you don't like it than you shoulda put a lid on it
If you don't like it than you shoulda put a lid on it
At which point Ali chimes in:
Volcano-oh-oh-oh, Volcano-oh-oh-oh
Volcano-oh-oh-oh, Volcano-oh=oh-oh
All the stranded nurses, and the stranded Tertius
All the stranded nurses, and the stranded Terius...
(if you have any brilliant lyric ideas send them my way)


That is as far as we got on the song, but I think we are going to make up the lyrics for the rest of the song and record it. Maybe you had to be there, but we were getting a big kick out of it. Now if we could only pronounce the name of the darn thing.


In the meantime we will just keep on keepin on and pray that the right surgeons and nurses will make it here in time to get as many people surgery as we can. Please pray for wisdom, safe traveling, and flights:)