For Denise Paul, one of her main reasons for keeping it together is her beautiful 6-month old son.

Paul's husband was in Haiti when the earthquake happened and she has not been able to make contact with him.

She last spoke to her husband around noon on Tuesday, the day that the 7.0 earthquake struck near the capital of Port Au Prince.

A resident of Watertown, Denise says that her husband has not yet met their son in person and she lost a wonderful woman who was a bridesmaid in her wedding.

Another young man, in school to become a journalist, also died after his body was found at the collapsed school.

Frustrated and scared, Denise saw the pictures of the destruction in Haiti and felt the pain and loss is similar to that of 9/11.

She is keeping it together, but lack of communication, the confusion with phone cards and downed telephone lines has made it hard to know what is really happening.

Sandra Main, a missionary that left Haiti just two days before the earthquake, says that she is still waiting to hear from some missonary friends, but has heard from the ministry she is part of.

Her friend Marge White has been seen and is apparently doing okay on the island.

Sandra is going to begin contacting people who have been asking about her friends, but knows that her joy is a rarity right now.

"It's a race of time right now," Sandra said of the people still trapped in buildings down in Haiti.