SO just have to share the days experience. Today an Iraqi worker from on post brought his 1 year old son to the gate and he was very sick. The Hospital here would not see him initially and they were brought to our TMC. Luckily one of our Docs is a pediatrician and we saw the boy together. He appeared to have double pneumonia and we spent most of the day giving him breating treatments and meds. He was doing well but not great and the hospital agreed to admit him late this afternoon. Was an interesting experience. I could go into great detail but will keep this one brief. So the most impressive things to me were the baby acted like any other sick baby, he cried a lot and when we tuned him up a bit would laugh and smile at us, was a good feeling. His 2 year old sister was with him too and took us a while but we won her over and she was the cutest thing. Having 3 girls at home it did make me a bit homesick. To be honest if they had not brought him here and had we not seen him he would have most likely continued to worsen and quite possibly died. He had already seen an Iraqi doctor an the treatment given was scary to say the least.

  I actually feel like we made a difference today and something good came out of this deployment. There are a lot of times that I sit and wonder why I was sent here and why it had to be me that got called but days like today help me understand that there is a greater reason for all of this and hopefully I will see the reason fully someday.

   Sorry if this seems too sappy or dramatic but it was a good feeling and I needed to share it.

NO matter what you feel about this war there are good things happening and no matter how small they are we need to share them.