One day at the Hanger clinic we had a bilateral above-knee amputee come up to the clinic on a horse. We tried to figure out how to get him off but the horse wasn’t cooperating! Once we finally got the patient inside, I told someone, “You think you’ve seen it all – what else will top this today?”
Not two minutes later, a bilateral above-knee amputee rode up to the clinic on the back of a motorcycle. He pulled up to the porch, put his arms up, swung around on the porch and used his arms and body to fluidly walk into the clinic. I thought – "There you go; welcome to Haiti!" That has been my new catch phrase – “Welcome to Haiti!” Because whatever norms you have or whatever you believe your life should be like or what others lives should be like, you just have to adjust and take it all in.
