T - 1 day for Haiti

Well--time to take a big breath, put my money where my mouth is.........and head to Haiti. I leave first tomorrow morning, fly though Puerto Rico, and land in Port-au-Prince by evening. I'll be staying at a hotel that serves as International Medical Corps' headquarters in the center of the city. From there -- who knows? IMC shares the space with a number of other organizations and I've been told it's a mini-UN. The conference rooms have been converted to dormitories for medical workers. I don't know if I'll be staying there or moving to one of the outlying mobile clinics. I sort of hope I'll be in the clinics and have the opportunity to see more of the country.

As my family knows-- I'm a nurse mostly because I read way too many Cherry Ames books as a little girl. Cherry Ames, night nurse. Cherry Ames, camp nurse. Cherry Ames, visiting nurse. I couldn't get enough of them. But I secretly always harbored a dream of being Lois Lane. So maybe I'll get to be both -- a nurse in a mobile clinic and a reporter telling all of you about life in Haiti 6 weeks after the earthquake. I'll try and post-- with photos --as I'm able.

Thank you all of you for your support and well wishes. I'll be in touch!

Laurie