Friday, October 26, 2007

So after going to bed at 245 and getting up at 330, I spent the morning in the kitchen with Kathy, keeping her company while she made breakfast and watching the critters crawl around in the kitchen. It was amazing how many of them there were with two people walking around. I got to play with one of the rat traps, can’t wait to see if it works. At about 445, the Owens family appeared and I helped them load the truck and Mike, Jeff, and I saw them off. They had to leave today to go to the states for a while. About that time people started to wake up and it became livelier and I got reinforcements in the kitchen so I found elsewhere to cause trouble. Friday was supposed to be a Tortuga and hike day but because of the rain all night and through breakfast Tortuga got canceled so Erin and I decided that since it was not a nice day we would have people help get the place ready for when the group left, so we spent most of the day cleaning, organizing, and finalizing stuff that we had been putting off. I tried to spend some time with Sonel and Anita since I am leaving tomorrow, and also the Heaven’s waiting room kids. Since most of the people that were going to Tortuga went on the PDP trip instead it was nice and quiet around campus, which made it a very relaxing day. At about 10 I decided to go and put the recovery room back in order, for Maureen, since Jeff and Bob were done with their plumbing work (and it was air conditioned). After lunch I fell asleep in the OR for about 90 minutes and then continued re-organizing the recovery room. We finished a little bit before dinner and headed upstairs to get ready. As I was heading upstairs I got some disturbing news that was not something I needed to hear the day before I was leaving. As it turns out Flober is not interested in helping with taking care of Sonel when he moves into the house that we rented for them and that his father is not planning on staying there as much as he was going to. So 12 hours before I am supposed to leave I am faced with Sonel not having a care giver while I am gone. When Erin and I presented this to Jody she decided that since right now it does not look like we are going to be putting anymore boys in that house for a while and since there were two entrances and a door in between rooms and they were meant to be rented individually anyway, she would allow Sonel’s father and his wife to stay in one room and Flober and the other boy to stay in the other room. I was really happy about that as was Sonel, because he was really worried about who would be taking care of him. After that episode it was time to hang out and relax for the last time with most of the people that were left on the compound. Devotion and share time was nice because the people leaving get to talk about what they liked the most and the memory that will last the longest. After that we played Shanghi again and then went our separate ways for bed. I opted to attempt another all nighter because it is easier to sleep on the planes when I am actually tired. It worked out quite nicely and I wound up only getting about 2 hours of sleep. For most of the night it was raining and terribly windy and there was this lady in the birthing center that was going through a terrible birthing process, wailing and singing and praying all night long. Peace