A Very Intense Day

It's funny because I never know when my blog site is going to be in English or Spanish, today it's in english. It's also funny that because I'm always trying so hard to speak Spanish I feel like I can't speak English anymore either!
So the clinic that we are working at is a Red Cross Clinic. It's reletively small, with only one or two doctors working at a time. Yesterday wasn't really only our first day there was it? Wow, so crazy, I feel like we've been working there for like a week. The days are long but are so filled that they go by really fast. We get there around 11am and leave for our hotel at 8pm. When we get back from the clinic we eat dinner but today no one was really hungry.
Like I said today was an intense day for alot of us. The morning was really slow so we used the time for practicing emergency transers on the backboard. I was the first "patient" and had to pretend to throw up like 5 times to simulate an actual situation, luckily I learned really well from my cousin Christine how to fake throw up. :)
After lunch all the action began. I don't have time to tell you guys everthing, but I'll tell you what I did for 4 hours after lunch. I got to take care of a little four year old girl who had gotten her finger smashed four days agol She had come in and recieved stiches in hopes to save the finger but she came back and it was nessasary to amputate the top half of the finger. She was the cutest little girl. She reminded me SO much of my cousin Abigail, their voices were just alike. I got to color with her and give her stickers and play with flashlights. And then it was time to have the surgery and I was the one that held her on my lap while they amputated. We were on one side of the curtain and the doctor and nurses were on the other. I held her hand through the curtain. It was super intense, especially because the little girl was screaming. They don't have the resources to give anasthesia so they could only numb her hand with lidocaine. The Lord was definetly with us because I was able to hold her without fatigue or much anxiety and after prayer and singing her some songs (twinkle twinkle in english, nighty night in english and Jesus Loves me in spanish) she fell asleep, praise the Lord!
One of the hardest parts was that I didn't really know the words to comfort her. My spanish is so lacking. Please pray it improves greatly. I praise the Lord for what I do know though.
I really want to be able to suture ect. but it's so hard when it causes the patients so much pain. It's best for them though, if they don't get it fixed it will get infected and they could potentially die. Please pray that God will give me strength. I'll let you know how it all goes.
I'm so thankful for my opportunities here even though they are somewhat overwhelming at times. Like I said I can't believe it's only been two days, we have so much more to learn. The doctor here is really really good about teaching us. On monday we saw some amazing things such as bones being set, ears being stitched, fingers with cellulitis being cleaned. Oh and we all are going to get a chance to go on an ambulance run too. The crazy thing here about the ambulance is that cars don't really get out of the way for it. Like even though the lights are on, no one moves to the right. Needless to say it can take awhile for the ambulance to arrive.
Tomorrow morning we are going to eat breakfast with the interns at our host's church. That should be fun. It should be a good opportunity to impove on our spanish. I better go to bed. Maybe I'll post some pictures tomorrow.
Buenas Noches.