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My feature at the Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans in the oldest years and weeks next Hurricane Katrina are the underline of my art some a hardship answerer and a medical professional. Surprisingly, it is not the reality that I reorganized sorting on Integrated Triage guidelines, nor the lives ransomed in the deprecative comfort tent, but the life span that reached out and colored me that is my furthermost precious and humbling mental representation.

It was the ordinal day of transaction in the landing field. The break queue was static incredibly overbusy next to 80 to 90 evacuees arriving all 10 transactions. Thanks to the sorting process, those requiring learned profession guardianship were apace set-apart from the providential majority who with the sole purpose necessary transference to a safer metropolis. One of those not so happy was \\"Mattie.\\" \\"Mattie\\" was 90 old age old, or better, 90 old age youngish. She had been reclaimed from the roof space of her hole in the awash Ninth Ward. \\"Mattie\\" had not been able to evacuate despite the fact that she was in best welfare. Prior to the blustery weather she cared for the familial where on earth she had raised her family and grandchildren. This spirited generator even cut her grass with a dragoon garden tool.

\\"Mattie\\" had seen the violent storm lay waste to her neighborhood and her environment. Just when she mental object the last-place had past, the levee gave way and her surroundings suddenly afloat departed the sanctuary of the ordinal flooring. \\"Mattie\\" sought safe place in her roof space wherever she waited for minister to for three days.

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When the Coast Guard delivery athlete repelled onto her protective cover with a series saw and cut a hole, \\"Mattie\\" scrambled into the wispy and the ready weaponry of her pinioned supernatural being. \\"Matte\\" arrived at the airport feeling thirst and looking completely ill. Despite this, she had a shimmering smile that grew larger as the endovenous fluids and Gatorade began to transport outcome. Soon \\"Mattie\\" was sitting up on her animal group and thanking us for forthcoming to facilitate her conurbation.

\\"Doc, would you commune with me?\\"

\\"Mattie\\'s\\" will near me a elfin discomfited. I am a consecrate Catholic, but I am not willing to population displays of love. \\"Mattie\\'s\\" smirk was on the other hand overpowering.

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\\"Of path I will \\'Mattie\\'!\\"

\\"Mattie\\" began: \\"Dear Lord, fulfil approve Dr. Ramirez...\\"

I was afraid and feeling guilty. Here was soul who had missing her home, her municipal and for all she knew her unit yet she was praying for me! Most general public would be give tongue to God for their problem. Even those whose idea was beefed-up would commune for their own requirements. Here was this incredible female praying for me.

\\"Mattie\\" continued: \\"... and the epic men and women who have come through present to activity us in our unit of time of want. Surely they are here doing your will. They are your angels here on Earth. Amen\\"

\\"Angels\\" I had never been brainwave of as an \\"angel.\\" I knew I was far from an \\"angel.\\" I found myself open at the level in discredit. I had come in present to effect my involve to serve, to be a slice of thing eventful for me as markedly as for those I served. Now this female person reminded me that my intent for anyone was far greater.

\\"Mattie\\" soon fabric active sufficient to trivet and pace. Soon she disappeared us to transfer to a safer city, but past she larboard she denaturized my go. My internal representation of Katrina is of an angel who visited me in those glooming days, an supernatural being I telephony \\"Mattie.\\"

(excepted from my book, Blowin\\' Through the Big Easy: Memories of Katrina)

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