Last night we heard the story of a neonatal intensive care nurse who was caught at Memorial Hospital when the storm hit. Forty of gthe sixty staff stayed, making sure each infant was helicoptered to another hospital. The incubators didn't fit into the helicopter so some babies rode inside a staff's shirt; some needed to be "bagged" to breathe--ie the ventilators couldn't ride with the baby, so staff used an inflatable device and pumped air into the babies for the full hour it took to be medivac-ed out. Not one baby died.
Staff stayed for days, keeping track of the injured and wounded, plus keeping staff pets in kennels along one hallway. It was days before they could leave and our speaker's family ended up in the dome, horrified by the number of people and the conditions their. Jeanelle believes they were meant to be there, as they happened to find two women in false labor and were able to help the women stop labor right away.
She also showed us pictures of the flood from the hospital windows, with submerged cars, broken hospital windows, people trying to float into the hospital because it was perceived as a safe place.
Jeanelle gave us a great over view, answered our questions and only cried a little....
Marge
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thank you for the stories marge. more, more!
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