I'm just sitting here getting ready to write and remembered I didn't take any pictures today. It was a big day! We started vaccinating pigs against Teschens Disease. We tagged and put 100 pigs in Merger today in the first vaccine trial. We vaccinated today and then will follow up in three weeks. We collected lots of data and drew blood so we can see what kind of immune response the vaccine creates. Please pray it works. It will be such a benefit to the country of Haiti. Between Hog Cholera and Teschens a community can loose all their pigs in just a few days. We sent another 100 doses to Pignon and they will vaccinate on Monday and I hope to get to the valley on Tuesday to do another 100. The Ministry of Agriculture is also starting to vaccinate too. Today was also a day of dealing with death. This morning there was an accident and a woman died when a tap tap rolled. I didn't see it but when I passed the blood hadn't coagulated yet and the police were all there so it hadn't been long. I said a little prayer and went on my way. I passed by 2 hours later and she was still there. Then 4 hours later passed the same way again and they still hadn't moved her. Why didn't they move her? Most likely they were trying to find the family and they wanted to assure that they saw how she died and that it was truly and accident and/or they were trying to find a Judge to come and do an official report for the court. Death is such a part of life here. It is not something that is uncommon and everyone knows someone who has died. I see accidents everyday and usually more than once a month someone who has died in one. When I see a body lying on the road it makes me appreciate the fragility of life and the beauty of the human spirit. The body lying there is a real person but they are truly gone and it is just an empty shell lying there, almost like it isn't really a person anymore. I don't know if it is because I was never exposed to seeing death on a regular basis in the US or what but I just get the most horrible knot in my stomach whenever I see someone lying on the road dead. But it is for the family not for the person who died. I have this total disconnect in my brain and it's like I am just looking at a movie or something. It bothers me that I am this way. Maybe it's the only way my brain and heart can deal with it, I just don't know. I never understood when reading medieval history why people came to see the dead but the people here do it too. When someone dies here everyone comes to look and comment about it. I don't want to be that person gawking but at the same time I can't tear my eyes away. I want to go and hold them and tell everyone to leave it's not going to make them come back. The person isn't there anymore it's just a shell but at the same time I want them to come back to because there will be someone hurting because of this death. There was a lady awhile back that hung herself and everyone from the training center went to see the body even though they didn't know her. I don't understand the fascination with death. I didn't go and can't imagine wanting to go into someone's home and see the grieving and the dead. I just don't know. The other death to deal with today was my friend that had breast cancer. Her daughter called a couple of hours ago and said she finally went to be with the Lord. It's bittersweet. I am so happy she in gone because she was suffering so but I will miss her. This I can deal with.