I Tried to Do Everything I Could

Who are you going to talk about today?

So years and years of

war had, you know, left

unexploded um ordinances or basically unexploded bombs not so much landmines but you know like mortar shells or barrel bombs that were dropped and never blew up right buried in the sand it was kind of typical i guess a quiet day the late morning um and um There was an explosion and we're like, oh man, the town's getting attacked.

What's going on? So we're trying to find out what was going on, talking to neighbors and finding out what was going on at the hospital, which was just a short drive away from where I was in the office.

And Anyway, what we had come to find out, the explosion was from, there was 12 kids that had found a mortar shell And they, this was the story that was told by bystanders.

The kids were playing with the mortar shell and they were banging on it.

And the explosion was the mortar shell going off.

And so the kids that were immediately around the shell, um, eight of them died instantly.

And four, four of them came into our hospital, um, And one of the kids who was 11, he had a full amputation of one leg and a partial of the other leg.

So, you know, a lot of blood loss and they were doing surgery on him for a few hours.

And after I kind of did my security rounds, we realized this was isolated and I didn't need to really do any more fact finding because it was pretty clear there wasn't an attack.

So everyone was kind of concentrating on hundreds of people that had come and kind of came around the hospital to see what was happening to the kid that was in surgery.

And some of them were already grieving for the kids that were obviously killed at the sight of the mortar.

And, you know, a couple of these other toddlers that were around rolled in and I was the only nurse available.

So anyway, I did like basically assessments on a couple of these little toddler kids that were screaming their heads off, had some shrapnel wounds on their legs, the three of them that I saw, but were stable.

And so that was a huge relief to know that these kids weren't critically injured.

After a couple hours of surgery, Phillip, the surgeon, comes out of the surgical suite.

It's a guy that I know pretty well.

He's funny guy, great surgeon, guy from Sri Lanka.

And his face was just, I don't know, it was flat, I guess, is the way to say it.

And he just, he looks at me, he's like, I did everything I could.

And it was a real kind of look of doom that he had, you know.

And that's really all they could say.

And then kind of he went his way.

Who are you going to talk about today?

So years and years of

war had, you know, left

unexploded um ordinances or basically unexploded bombs not so much landmines but you know like mortar shells or barrel bombs that were dropped and never blew up right buried in the sand it was kind of typical i guess a quiet day the late morning um and um There was an explosion and we're like, oh man, the town's getting attacked.

What's going on? So we're trying to find out what was going on, talking to neighbors and finding out what was going on at the hospital, which was just a short drive away from where I was in the office.

And Anyway, what we had come to find out, the explosion was from, there was 12 kids that had found a mortar shell And they, this was the story that was told by bystanders.

The kids were playing with the mortar shell and they were banging on it.

And the explosion was the mortar shell going off.

And so the kids that were immediately around the shell, um, eight of them died instantly.

And four, four of them came into our hospital, um, And one of the kids who was 11, he had a full amputation of one leg and a partial of the other leg.

So, you know, a lot of blood loss and they were doing surgery on him for a few hours.

And after I kind of did my security rounds, we realized this was isolated and I didn't need to really do any more fact finding because it was pretty clear there wasn't an attack.

So everyone was kind of concentrating on hundreds of people that had come and kind of came around the hospital to see what was happening to the kid that was in surgery.

And some of them were already grieving for the kids that were obviously killed at the sight of the mortar.

And, you know, a couple of these other toddlers that were around rolled in and I was the only nurse available.

So anyway, I did like basically assessments on a couple of these little toddler kids that were screaming their heads off, had some shrapnel wounds on their legs, the three of them that I saw, but were stable.

And so that was a huge relief to know that these kids weren't critically injured.

After a couple hours of surgery, Phillip, the surgeon, comes out of the surgical suite.

It's a guy that I know pretty well.

He's funny guy, great surgeon, guy from Sri Lanka.

And his face was just, I don't know, it was flat, I guess, is the way to say it.

And he just, he looks at me, he's like, I did everything I could.

And it was a real kind of look of doom that he had, you know.

And that's really all they could say.

And then kind of he went his way.