E & P Update

Okay so I think it’s about time I update you on ms. Emily Marie…she is getting so big! We weighed her the other day and she is now 17lbs. Can you believe it?! When I first met her she was so weak, so malnourished, she did not even weigh 6lbs. She is now crawling and trying to imitate your noises and expressions. She is so smart and really doing well. I try to make sure we have quality time every week! Rosmanie (one of the nannies) and I joke about who is her mom/who is going to keep her because we both love her so much. She probably could go back out to Bercy because she is doing really well…but I can’t bare to be here without her…so she can go back there when I’m gone. I’m hoping to see her walk or maybe start talking now since I am going to be here until October. I am working on ‘Tasha’ hoping that will be her first  word! I will say thought that she has been having a bit of diarrhea lately and she is on flagel to help stop it. You could pray she gets over that, especially considering that is one of the main causes of death among children in third world countries. I am NOT saying she is going to die…but it’s a good thing to know so you can pray also for the world in general with that issue of health because it is truly something that could be stopped. Its preposterous that such a thing goes on. Wow, I’m sorry that was a mini tangent, not a bad one to give though.

Okay on to Poutchino…we are actually really worried about him. I am really worried about him. I don’t know if I have expressed this to you on here at all yet, but we have been concerned that he may have an infection in his shunt. The shunt is what drains the fluid from is brain into his abdominal cavity. The shunt that he has now is his second one because his first got infected and it had to be removed. Dorothy has said a few times that some of his recent conditions are similar to what was happening before she found out about the infection in his last one. He has a fever almost everyday, he has more frequent seizures, etc. The big problem is that if he really does have an infection he needs a neurologist, but they are practically impossible to find here with out waiting days and days and even then who knows if you will ever actually get to see someone. If it is infected, he will need it removed and then a new one put in its place. However, he’ll have to heal from the removal and in the meantime that fluid will be building back into his brain. It’s actually such a horrible thing that could set his therapy progress back a whole bunch. Pray with all your might and in faith of the healing power of our Lord Jesus Christ that Poutch does not have an infection, that if he does, all the things to work it out would be available in the time he needs them and that he would not regress back in the progress he has made to be stronger. We are going to try and take him to get some blood work done after therapy tomorrow so we can hopefully figure out what is going on because these fevers have to stop.

Thanks again for being a part of my life, for reading this blog, for praying, for your own individual ways of participating in justice and hospitality around our world! I know total cheese but true…

How about a better way to put it…

“The place that God calls us is the place where the world’s deep hunger and our deep desire meet.” –Fredrick Buechner