Tuesday, October 16, 2007

At about 630 the little one took a turn for the worse in that we could not get her saturation percentage up where it belongs, it was staying around 90 percent. After about an hour of work I got replaced and hit up some breakfast and sat and talked with Heidi (my newest mother) for a while, while people were using my computer. While we were chatting, one of the nurses brought me a pair of crutches for a patient but she thought they were too short. So I found Bobby (a jack of all trades) and he and I fixed these crutches so that they could be used. Man, they were rusted, but we got them fixed and then the ladies and I replaced the armpit pads because the ones on them looked pretty dirty and old. Around 930 Erin and I took an air mattress donated for Sonel down to recovery to change his bed but saw how busy it was so we just got it ready and waited for a while. She had her class so she only waited until 10 and then went up; I however, had nothing to do so I fell asleep in Sonel’s bed for about an hour. It really comfortable in there with the air on, and at 11 I got woken up because traffic was slow enough to change his bed. So I dead lifted a 70 pound boy while the ladies changed out what he sleeps on. After that I went upstairs to get ready for lunch and one of the ladies wanted to check her email. So there I was finding myself with some downtime. Since I have some let me tell you about the goat trip that took place today. A couple by the name of Dave and Sue, when they were here last, felt that God put it on their hearts to do something like a goat ministry, aka, by goats for poor people to use as a source of income. So they passed this ministry opportunity on to their congregation, friends, and family, and got enough money to buy 40 goats (20 billy, 20 nanny), and give one pair to families that they feel lead to give them too. So today about 12 people took a 2 hour, 30 foot flatbed, truck ride to a market to buy goats. They were only able to buy 22 today, must have been because of the quantity needed. Janeil says that a pair of goats is the equivalent to 5 months salary for a teacher in the far west. That is phenomenal that they are going to be able to change the lives of 20 families when this portion of this ministry is complete. Back to the mission, after lunch Erin and I went down to see Sonel and the baby and Diane said that she was going to die no matter what because her heart rate had just been slowly going down all day and several times she stopped breathing for a little and started up again. So Erin and I went over the baby orphanage to take over for the workers so that they could spend some time with the little one before she passed. Man do we have a whole new respect for the ladies that work in the baby orphanage and we were only there for 3 1/2 hours, but a part of that was feeding time and diaper change time. We did not have to bathe them; the ladies did that for us, thankfully. At 430 the ladies came back and took over and we went to the dining hall to hang out and have a little fun with a stuffed monkey and just relax. Right as dinner was starting the goat crew got back with 8 Goats in the bed of the truck and looking like they very much enjoyed themselves. After dinner and before devotions the little one left this world and is now being rocked in the arms of the angels or maybe even Jesus. We were all sad but were glad as well because she is no longer suffering. There is going to be a small memorial service here on campus tomorrow morning at 645 for the baby orphanage staff and whoever else would like to attend. I am going to go to the baby orphanage and take over for the ladies so that they can go, I think Erin is going to go with me and either a fella named Tony or a young lady named Elizabeth. After devotions I went over to Jody and Jose’s for a little bit and chatted with Jose and Erin about this and that, and Jose and I fixed the kitchen door before we called it a night. Erin and I went on the roof above her room to find out where the leak was and it was pretty easy to figure out once she figured out where in the room we were standing. After that we had to go downstairs to say goodnight to Sonel cause he was wondering where we were. Once the goodnights were finished, Erin, Liz, Rolgard, and I chatted for a while until the girls went to bed and then I began my long night of catch up. I told Erin I was not going to bed until I was all caught up and everything I wanted to be. As I am writing the last journal I need to in order to be caught up on that, I only have a few website things to do and then I am caught up, WOO-HOO. Peace.