Sunday Nov 2

OK, I'm giving up sending my last week's blog so you'll miss out on last week, which was a very interesting one, what with the medical team being here all week and then us having a sleep over at Chris and Leslie's. The most tiring weekend since I came I think. At least that I realized. It took more than a weekend to


Thursday

We've almost made it through another week!!! Actually, God gave strength, and it wasn't so bad. I just have some more resting up to do.

We had a cool thing happen today. Cenofa our computer tech here, set up the wireless so that we have it in our house now!!! I'm actually sitting on my bed relaxing!!! That doesn't mean no interruptions though. They come at anytime. Like this afternoon I was walking out the lane to do my exercises to/at/from the beach, and I hear a young voice 'Sister Elsie, I have a cough'. Sometimes they're at my door before I'm up and the other day I was even awakened from sleep in the evening. Mind you it was earlier than I usually go to bed, but I was SOOOO tired. I thought seeing as how my house was dark, they wouldn't wake me.


It's kind of cool when walking off of Canaan, I get people calling me by my name. Even if I don't understand what else they're saying. My Creole is picking up but not as fast as I'd like. I had two different people call to me on my walk to the beach.


The 3.3 kg 15 month old that we admitted to our Mamba program last week did real well this first week (picture on last blog). He gained half a kilo - that's one pound!! In one week!! Love it! The one negative was Maikel didn't show up and we were suppose to arrange to do his Echocardiogram in Port. Now it will have to wait another week, and we won't be able to send the tape of it to the Cardiologist in the States. If he has a hole in his heart, they'll be flying him up for the surgery. Pray he'll come next week.

Another challenge this week was a 5 yr old boy, whose mother brought him because of asthma. He had obvious breathing difficulty. Last month a doctor had told her it was asthma. I thought 'great, I've got a generator, I'll give him a nebulizing treatment and he'll be fine.' Not so. After consulting with my "American doctors" I think he has an airway obstruction. Mom says in Aug another boy choked him on the throat. He could have gotten injured, and now with a little inflammation from a cold or something, it could give him difficulty. Pray the meds will help, cause there's really nothing else I can do from my clinic. I may need to take him to an ENT (ears, nose, throat doctor) in Port. He was such a sweet kid. Reminded me of my nephew Aidan, his age, only different color :) He'd squint up his face when breathing seemed to get more difficult - no complaints. He could only whisper, so didn't say much.

Sunday night..

Sorry for the delay in this post. Internet has been very sporadic.

Pray for us this week if you think of us. P.Henri and S. Gladys are at a training center in the States, and things always run a bit differently when they're gone.

This weekend has been good. We spent yesterday afternoon with our friends in Pierre Payen and this afternoon, we took all the younger kids to the beach. It was windy and the waves were huge for here - some even 6 ft high. The beach wasn't very good but the boys esp. loved the challenge, and change of beach I think. A little dangerous for the little ones, so I was glad I got them back home safe and sound. I'm not used to driving the big truck either.

So much for this week!!!
Thanks for all your support and prayers!!
Elsie