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What a pleasure it was to meet so many of you in Ann Arbor!
Since returning home, I have tried to keep up with the emails concerning the situation in Haiti. As many of you know, Priscilla and I plan to travel to Cap Haitian with another Nurse Practitioner for 8 days. Priscilla, a Nurse Practitioner, has gone before, and this will be my first trip with them, having gone to Leogane many times.
It strikes me that the problem with the announcement from PCUSA is the vagueness of it. I agree with Tom Anderson. Most of us who travel together are well trained in the scientific method of logic. We prefer to study the actual facts and draw our own conclusions based upon them. None of us is willing to accept a broad sweeping statement based on data we have not examined. And each situation varies. We would each prefer to evaluate our own trips dependant on the need, the mission itself, the actual danger of the route we need to take, and the expected results. And we should each be able to determine the amount of personal risk we are willing to take.
I think that also pertains to the Haitians. I think that if a Haitian driver is willing to take the risk of driving to the airport and returning with a load of medical professionals and drugs to treat his own people, he is entitled to make that decision for himself. This is part of showing respect for a people.
I heard the cries of the Haitian doctors and nurses at Ann Arbor asking for our help. I have heard the cries of the mothers and children in the hospital wards and clinics. The elderly go without treatment. I don't think many of them have time to wait for me "until peace is restored." What little I can do for a nation that in the midst of all that misery, will not give up hope, I intend to do....now. Jane, RPh GA
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