A full day

Today was a busy day - with the exception of some fun over lunch, and the daily evening debriefing over good Southern food and spirits, our team was fairly occupied.

We started out the day at a Red Cross shelter in New Iberia. A second shelter had been consolidated into this one just the night before so there were now 300 evacuees staying there. It was a busy morning of assessing patients, refilling medications, and giving immunizations for tetanus, hepatitis B and A.
We did learn the challenge of addressing chronic pain in this setting, and have decided that we won't fill sedative hypnotics or narcotics anymore. The community around is fairly intact - just stretched - so we will refer people out to longer term providers.

This afternoon we were back at the Sacred Heart church clinic. Pictured above is the substantial pharmacy that has been donated. The parishioners here have done a wonderful job getting the word out to the community, and we gave a lot of immunizations. I only hope the supply lasts....