oopsie!

Brad was up at 6:00am delivering 6 whole chickens to our guards who finished their shift. We butcher and sell 100 whole chickens every two weeks and the hospital makes about $1 per bird and we get antibiotic/hormone free birds.  He decided to check on the other animals, even though he has been paying a kid to water and feed them on Sundays so he could at least have one day off and enjoy the Sabbath.
He heads down there, and thankfully (God’s timing) because one of our pregnant sheep had a prolapsed vagina.  Not the uterus, just the vagina.
So he runs home, not knowing how emergent the situation was and quickly looks at the Merck Manuel for animals and finds how to put a ‘sling’ up to hold the vagina in.  He gets our OBGYN doc, Dr Vance, and off they go back to the farm.  Luckily Vance was raised on a farm as well as his female parts knowledge.
Interestingly enough, they decided to try the sling and not to stitch the area closed.  It was a matter of running cabuja (string) around her, over there, under this, and through there. Push the vagina back in, then some cabuja across the back in to hold the vagina in and walla!  Brad felt the baby lamb move while they were doing what I called “cats cradle” across the ewe and they knew the little one was still fine.
Sammey and I have named that ewe Honey, as in “awww, Honey.”
She was doing fine this evening, although we have given her some private quarters as not to be bothered by the others and hopefully not walking around too much.  We THINK baby is due in about 2 weeks, but the 6 that were pregnant when we bought them were all on approximate due dates.

the prolapse


this is why we are not all farmers or vets!




Nice boots, Brad.

see, cat’s cradle! Aw, Honey, I’m sorry for you. Although it doesn’t hurt, how embarrassing.

Holding it in.

She felt fine afterwards.  She was eating and peeing.  Both good signs.
So, pray for Honey and her baby that they both make this delivery and that Honey’s personal parts go back to where they came from.

Living in the Tropics

Living in the tropics has some benefits.  The watermelon is from the store, but for sale all over on the side of the road.  The mango is from my neighbor, the papaya is from my back yard and the avocado is from my side yard.

This beauty is called a dragon fruit.  Brad saw it at the store and could not resist. It did not have much flavor, but normally they do.

It sure stained the fingers.

Home again home again jiggity jig!

home.

  Comfortable and busy. Busy unpacking, cleaning, putting stuff back where it goes, catching up with work.

  It's all good, but after trying and trying to clear my 'to do' list of my responsibilities, I have finally decided to just pray for joy in obedience, because I think God has asked me to do all I am doing.

  Schooling the girls, working in the eye clinic and working at the hotel/staff housing.  It seems like a lot to me, but really it is not.  On paper it is not.

  Living in a community can be difficult and wonderful.  Difficult because you get people at your house all day long at any time.  This is very Honduran, but our culture says 'call first.'

  You certainly don't hang around in your pajamas!

  Mom is good.  The trip was great. The wedding of my cousin was beautiful.

 Thanks for praying.  I am so grateful for the time away.

  Here are the prayer requests from Sunday.

Nurses, nurses, nurses-we have lost several and are very short

Missionary kid teacher/tutor needed for next year

Anesthesiologist needed!!!

Teacher strikes are closing lots of roads and kids are not in school.

Finances for the hospital.

A container is on the way, pray for safe arrival.

Louis-continues to heal from the burns but has not completely healed.

Baby Milagro (our premie) to continue to grow

Syd in Mexico with her youth group-pray for relationships as well as safety

yipee!

Sammey babysat a Chiwawa and a Doxen in Honduras

Cousins!

Guess who can play cards?

I guess purple was the color of the day.

Sunday's Prayer Requests

I wanted to share last Sunday's prayer requests, as it gives you a good idea of what is going on at the hospital.
*lots of visitors coming at the end of Jan
*Ward's team from Santa Barbara, CA-6 in all, even one from Maine!
*Patients: a man who had a miracle surgery done while an orthopedist and an antithesis were here. (we don't have a full time anest), a woman who had breast surgery (her kids are staying at the children's center and are trying to adjust to mom in the hospital and all the kids there), woman with a partial foot amputation due to diabetes (a huge problem down here, can you say Coke?)
*baby Orleen at the children's center.  His sleep schedule is off since his recent stay at the hospital
*We have three nurses pregnant, one gringo (my neighbor who is suffering from morning sickness) and two Hondurans who are over their morning sickness
*US representative who was shot in Arizona along with the others wounded and killed
*Sudan voting
*our cardiologist who is in the Seattle area was almost ready to return after the holidays and his back went out.  Pray for healing and direction for when they can return.

An interesting thing happened during Christmas time.  We have two ladies who help with the housework.  One comes half day on Tue, the other comes half day on Thurs-most of the time.  Sometimes the rain is too much, and they can't pass the river, like this last week.  Or maybe their kids are sick.
As Christmas approached and we had this beautiful 7 foot tree up, decorated with lights, tinsel, and decorations, it seemed a little uncomfortable when Doli or Santos came over.  We decided not to put our presents under the tree until Thursday before Christmas, after Doli left.  In the mean time, we wrapped our gifts and put them in our neighbor's loft, who does not have house help.

It made us think differently about how many gifts we had!
Also, this last week we had about 4 days of non stop rain.  They actually evacuated 2,000 people from the north coast and we were unable to pass the plancha for 4 days.  Praise God we had no  emergency people at that time that had to get to another hospital for surgery.
Yesterday we started drying out, but we are so thankful that our biggest worry is not getting to town for a week and not worrying about our house sliding or the river rising to our home.
We also have a dryer for our clothes and were able to continue to wash clothes, unlike all of our Honduran friends who must dry clothes outside.  Ok, so it does not sound like much not to wash clothes for a week, but if you wait that long, they really smell and sometimes they mold.  Those mold stains are hard or even impossible to remove.
Ugh!  The joys of living in the tropics.