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.