Wadlene arrived at Baptist Haiti Mission nine days after the earthquake. She arrived, like many others, in the back of a truck that bumped up the hill to the hospital.

Nine days had passed and this woman who lay before me was still untreated and had been waiting all this time for any type of help. Suddenly, something clicked in her mind and I could see it clearly in her face.

She recounted that she been in her kitchen cooking when her building crumbled around her. Then she spent several days in the wreckage before being freed and eventually they came to us.

Her children where in another room and perished in the quake as did her husband.

Here she was, suffering for over a week with limited or no care like pain medicine or basic hygiene with a broken arm and leg, caring for herself in utter despair at the loss of all of her family!

Still terrified, physically hurting, and emotionally spent we moved her to the O.R. where she underwent the first stages of repair for her injuries. Shortly after this our team left.  I didn't expect to see her again.