bout time...

Okay it has been only about a week, but i feel like i have SO much to tell. as always when its been awhile i try to be short and sweet with the large amount of info.

Neptalie is out of the hospital! PRAISE GOD! she still has to get an x-ray of her chest and go back to see the doctor one more time, but she is home and doing much better!

Regina's mom moved in with us (i think i maybe mentioned that already) she is taking care of Regina, but really has no clue how to be a mom. She wanted to spend the nights out and always coming up with excuses about something. Friday when we returned from healing hands she had left with Regina and hasn't been back since. It is sad because i don't know that Regina with get the care she needs, but you cant save everyone and she is with her mother. hopefully the mother will learn and do her best to take care of her.

On Thursday a woman with her baby and 3 other women came to the house. we talked to them for probably 3 hours (btw- Emanuel is the best so patient and honest)and then we had the 3 women leave (they weren't helping and we found 2 of them didn't even know her). the woman stay with her baby and talked for another hour probably. it was so exhausting and the story is always changing or being misunderstood. the baby boy was 5 months old and severely malnourished. she was giving him carrot juice because she couldn't afford formula and she wasn't able to breast feed probably from lack of nutrition in her own body. she had gone to a doctor and some how came out believing she couldn't have children again because of being so anemic. we had to explain to her that she could, but she might die if she does. the baby probably already has brain damage from lack of nutrients, you can tell this from the fact that his skull is not fully developed. its very heartbreaking. Dorothy didn't feel the holy spirit leading her to take in the baby and my heart was torn. she felt that she really wanted to teach the mother a lesson and she couldn't leave the country and put a baby in my care that could die on me. she didn't feel comfortable with that. and to be honest i wasn't sure that i felt comfortable with it either. we kept giving her other options, but it seemed she had tried them all and closed all the doors we offered. finally we gave her 2 options...1.we would take the baby in and she would have to get a job and pay to help get formula and so forth, or 2.she could come with her baby everyday here and we would provide all the formula, diapers, etc., but she would leave at 6 every night because we still had Regina's mom. she left and hasn't come back.

here's the thing thou, we have room now so that that mother could stay because Regina's mom left. so pray she comes back. i know the above sounds harsh to some of you maybe, but you cant always give hand outs...sometimes you cant take in a child, sometimes they need to see how actions have consequences. its never an easy decision to make. you always want to help, but sometimes don't have the means. there is so much more to this than i wrote, but know that we did are best and just pray...sometimes that is literally all you can do.

oh what next...i met some more new people this week...Emory and Mary Wilson. they are in the process of moving down here to live for 2 years being christian light missionaries in Gonaives, which is a couple hours past bercy. they are really sweet people. they know the brooks family and I'm blessed to have met them!!! they have met a little boy who is severally burned and also asked Dorothy to take him in, but he is so bad, and there isn't a lot here for burned victims, again she is leaving the country and doesn't want to risk me having to deal with the death of a baby. so its been a bit sad lately. part of me thinks God just really wants me to have more responsibility when she is gone, but maybe that's just me making light hearted the situations.

anyway we are trying to figure out how to get the baby into the one hospital that might be able to help. the thing is someone has to be with the child in the hospital at all times, because they wont play mama...changing diapers, etc. therefore some family member has to come in to PAP with the child and no member seems to be able to or willing, who knows. also this hospital wont help anyone if they know that there is an association with 'a blanc.' so pray that we get something figure out, because burns if they get infected, well there isn't a lot of hope for the child.

sorry i wasn't full of much happy news, but its life sometimes. God is still working and moving. i see blessings everyday despite the circumstances!

Blessings,
tasha