Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Ok so today, when I got up I cleaned the house that I have been using and gathered all the dirty laundry and collected everything I need for my 5 days in St. Louis. I could only take my laptop bag and my briefcase though because Roland and I went via tap tap. It was ok though because Wisley was coming later and he brought the rest of it for me. When we got to the mission, I did my journal from the previous day and updated my website and then went to Sonel’s house with Melissa and Roland to change his dressing and take out his catheter. When we got to the house we learned that his father had gone out of town for two days so Melissa could not show him how to put another catheter in, but she took out the one that was in any way to see if he could pee without it in. After we changed his dressings and got him in a diaper and gave him water, we told him we would be back later and headed home. After lunch, Erin and I spent some time working on website pictures and chatting about this and that. Around 230 Wisley showed up with my luggage and also Mike and Teresa’s, which they were very excited about, because they had a lot of things for other people that they wanted to give to them. Around 3 I went to hang out with Roland for a while why we waited for Melissa and the Grant’s so we could go to Sonel’s again. While we were waiting, I helped Roland and Vogley (the Grant’s interpreter) clean out their room. At about 4 we all went to Sonel’s house, packing toys for him and he cousins and some more Ensure (meal replacements). Melissa was really excited because he peed without his catheter in. He was really excited that so many people were coming to see him, and we had so much fun playing with some of the toys that we took him. He was thankful for something to do while he lays in bed all day. Mike and I are going to look into building some kind of pull up bar for him so that he can exercise while he is in bed and we are going to get him a radio so he can keep up on what is going on in the outside world. After we played and prayed we headed back for dinner. Dinner was really spicy tonight but really really good, and we all actually ate at the same time so it was good to just get to hang out with nothing to worry about. Dinner is pretty much the end of the organized night for most of the people because of how much goes on during the day. So everyone went their separate ways for the evening and I remained in the dining hall, journaling, updating, configuring, and researching. I hit the sack around 11. Peace