Overnight in the Clinic

What a rough night in the clinic.  Between Josecito and Elena, I needed to give meds every hour on the hour.  Sometimes it seemed to take forever to wake them (especially Josecito) out of their sleep.  On one occasion it took me 22 minutes to get medicine into his system.  I don't know if he was having bad dreams or what, but no matter what I tried the boy would just not wake up enough to realize he had to take his meds!  After I was relieved from the clinic at 6am, I headed straight to the little girls house for breakfast & dishes.  When this was done, I went back to the apartment to take a shower and upload the blog and then had to head back to the little girls house by 10am to begin making tortillas. 

At some point during lunch (I think I had just started doing dishes), Bob and Andres stopped by to get the keys to the apartment so they could change, get some $, etc.  They said they had been painting all morning & were going to the tienda.  I said I'd be there when dishes were done.  When I walked over to the tienda, they weren't there, so I headed back to the apartment to find it locked up.  I thought I'd take a walk around Emmanuel (it's a long, hilly walk) to see if I could find them...& didn't see them.  By now I was pooped and the tiredness from not sleeping the night before had set in, AND I was very thirsty because it was a super hot, sunny day.  A neighbor gave me a glass of juice to drink, but I had clinic duty from 2-4:30 & I was exhausted!  Around 3:15, I saw Andres & Bob coming back up to the apartment (the clinic is only 3 buildings away from the apartment), so I called for Andres to finish my shift in the clinic.  I was asleep by 4pm.