August 14th - My Last Week

One week for today we will be on 2 buses to get back to San Pedro Sula where the airport is located. Time seems to have flown by (no pun intended) while I've been here.

This morning I was at the clinic from 6:30 - 9:30am. We are winding down with the chicken pox and really praying that no more new cases come in. There were 3 children in the clinic as of this morning, and by the end of the day two girls will be sent home, leaving us with Kevin. Kevin was a special case...I have NEVER seen a child with so many chicken pox. He has spiked a fever at least once a day, and I truly believe that his body/system is shocked by how bad he has the pox.

When I was done with the clinic, I ran some of the huevos rancheros leftovers from last night to Doris. I only get to see her in passing and feel terrible about it too. Last Monday as I was headed to the volunteer meeting, she ran to me and gave me a big hug and began crying. She said "she didn't want to talk about it right there & then", but it was very difficult for me to watcher her, since I've never seen her cry before - she always has a smile on her face. When we have the last child out of the clinic, I am going to try to spend as much time with her as possible.

I called home early afternoon to find that Alina had lost a tooth and Noah would like to come to pick us up at the airport. Peanut refused to talk to me because she was more concerned about getting some "leche" (apparently Bob needed to do some grocery shopping). When I was off of the phone, I needed some time to myself - so sat back & watched the movie Family Man, which was the movie Bob & I saw on our first date. That movie does have a lot of good qualities to it, on how to love and appreciate your family.

When the movie finished, a volunteer who has been vacationing for 2 weeks walked in and introduced herself. She's from Denmark & her name is Therese. Her boyfriend (who came to visit for those 2 weeks) will be staying in the boys volunteer dorm until Tuesday, when his plane takes off for Denmark. We found out that we happened to be on the same flight from Miami to San Pedro Sula when we flew in on August 1st! What a coincidence. :-)