tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11845953477673939192024-03-24T12:52:26.184-07:00Sierra Leone or BustEmilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644013735982904967noreply@blogger.comBlogger193125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1184595347767393919.post-560120768864363952018-12-31T13:08:00.001-08:002018-12-31T13:08:16.465-08:00Happy New Year!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We have had a really, really busy last several months. When I looked at our calendar, I decided that we were going to need a little getaway after Christmas. What better time than the strange week between Christmas and New Years, when I'm never sure if I should still be in vacation mode or "let's get the New Year off right" mode? Thanks to the generosity of several people back home, we were able to go to a hotel with a POOL for several nights. We skipped going to Freetown and went to a smaller town where the hotel was cheaper, but the pool was just as nice. :)<br />
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As I was packing for our little adventure, I realized that I pack a little differently here than I would if we were going to a hotel in the States. Allow me to elaborate.<br />
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Make sure to bring an extension cord! Most hotel rooms have an outlet that's available to use, but it's BYO power strip if you want to be able to plug in more than one thing (or anything with a US plug). <br />
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It's also BYO movie/entertainment. A lot of the hotels have TV's in them, but as in the case this time, it will only have one channel. If you happen to get a few more channels, they are usually Nigerian soap operas or the government news channel. Both are obviously....thrilling. But if you want a movie night....best to bring your own movies.</div>
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We are now a family of six. One of the awesome things about Sierra Leone is that they don't really care how many people you want to cram into a hotel room. So we don't have to spring for a suite, we just bring our own bedding! That includes 2 pack n' plays (not pictured), two sleeping mats, extra pillows and extra towels! The hotels provide one, maybe two if you ask them for another one, but several days of six people using two towels.....doesn't quite cut it. If we're going somewhere with AC, bring your own blankets!! (At least for my African family). Nothing is worse than having to TURN OFF THE AC because the rest of the family is too cold. Ugh. No way man.</div>
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Hence the reason I also pack clothes for my kids as if they're going to play in the snow. Long pants, sweatshirts, socks. Anything to keep them comfy so the AC can stay on for this Mama! (Thanks Auntie Elisabeth for the new sweatshirts!!) Keep in mind, it probably never got below 75 degrees. My family is crazy. </div>
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We didn't end up getting to the hotel until about 8pm but that didn't stop us from going for a swim. Us. I mean the kids. I joke about my kids being cold all the time but I think Sierra Leone is starting to rub off on me because there was no way I was getting in that water. Brrrrrr.<br />
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Our good friend and co-worker came down with us for a couple days and it was a special treat to get to spend some time with her. After she left I heard almost hourly, "I miss Alice. I wish she would come back to play with us." She is one of their favorites!</div>
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Alice and I went shopping in the "junks" part of town (the used clothing) and I found a dress for Marie. She wanted a photo shoot with her sis. :) These girls.....so precious.</div>
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I noticed on this trip that my Sierra Leonean is definitely picking up the tricks of the trade here. Almost everything we asked him to carry went straight onto his head.<br />
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We had a great time on our little vacation. Although traveling with three kids three and under probably isn't the most relaxing thing we've done, the struggle of lack of naps/sleep for everyone is already beginning to fade and I'm happy that we got to make some good memories with our kiddos. I'm feeling refreshed and ready to start 2019 off with a bang! And laundry. Lots of laundry tomorrow. :)<br />
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Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644013735982904967noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1184595347767393919.post-5816408086039086422018-06-01T09:38:00.000-07:002018-06-01T09:38:22.290-07:00Camping.....with a newborn<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Last weekend we took the family camping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A team came from Arizona and it had a very
special team member on it! <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She and her family lived in the house that we’re
currently living in and were my team members for years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They moved back to the States while we were
in the US having Haddie so there was a big hole when we got back to Sierra
Leone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyway, she was coming on this
team and we wanted to spend time with her as well as see what kind of stuff
they were doing in the villages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wasn’t
sure how it would go, camping with a newborn and one year old, so we decided we’d
just take it day by day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The first couple nights we actually stayed on some property
that had bedrooms and running water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Marie stayed out in a tent with some friends of hers so it was Peter and
I with the Littles in the room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
forgot extra mosquito nets and there weren’t any screens on the windows
yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter volunteered to sleep on the
floor without a net since his body was used to the malaria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was the house that we stayed in. The team gave it a nice coat of paint while they were here. They even braved the Sierra Leonean scaffolding! </td></tr>
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I did not know that my kids were such crazy sleepers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, I knew that Ben was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We haven’t had Haddie in our bed very much,
but let me tell you that those two are crazy when they go to sleep!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After spending all night trying to keep them
from rolling off the bed, I convinced Peter to sleep in the tent the next night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I’ve tried to convince him to do this a many times, but he does not have the same nostalgic memories of sleeping on the
ground, cooking food in the fire, etc. that I do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was every day life for him and when he had
to sleep outside on the ground, it was usually because they were on the run
during the war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> However, our previous night with essentially no sleep made him desperate enough to try anything. </span>Our kids were still
crazy sleepers but at least the mats being on the ground kept us from worrying that
they were going to roll off the bed all night. Also the breeze!! We had to use a blanket at night which was awesome!<o:p></o:p></div>
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The next night we went into a village to camp there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That evening, one of the women on
the team gave a talk to the women of the village.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The men of the village were curious about
what these strangers wanted to come say to their women, so they stood up in the
back of the meeting with their arms folded across their chests.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, after the meeting, they were glad
with what had transpired and said that we could continue to talk to their
women. <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span> <o:p></o:p></div>
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The next day the team arranged a craft time, again with the
ladies of the village.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They made little
yarn dolls. I got there late and as I walked into the area I heard people calling "Marie, Marie, Marie." It did my heart good to see Marie jumping right in to help with the craft. Peter and I are passionate about our kids getting to be a part of the ministry that we're involved in and catching the vision for all the things Jesus wants to do here. It's really fun that Marie's getting old enough to be more than an observer but a participant as well. </div>
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At the end of the craft time, the ladies (and some men of course) were sitting around and one of the team members wanted to share a little bit about what God had laid on her hearts for them. This developed into an unexpected time of the people in the village just asking a lot of questions. The people of this village had heard of Jesus before and had believed that He was some kind of prophet, but had never heard about His divinity. The next night the team showed the Jesus film and it was so neat to hear about some of the responses that they had to various scenes. Cheering, gasping, etc. (It was too late for the littles and I to be out so we held down the fort at the campsite). </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Megan has been a Godsend to me. She came over for a few months just to help me with the little ones. Could NOT have camped without her! :)</td></tr>
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Haddi's "sippy cup" of water in the village......a plastic packet. She took to it like a champ.</div>
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Camping in the village was hard. When we got home, I was so excited to take a shower in a different place than the toilet and not have to worry about dropping my clean clothes in the dirt. I never understood why my mom said that she hated the dirt while camping.....now I know. Kids make it way worse! :) .<br />
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We are winding up the year here at Grace Village. And apparently, some traditions are worldwide! I vividly remember having FIELD DAY in elementary school and lo and behold....we had it here at the school as well! With some differences of course. :)</div>
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We made it a family affair and headed out there on Saturday to enjoy the festivities. The kids told Marie that they wanted her to run with them so that morning she made sure to put on her tennis shoes and athletic shorts. She was pretty nervous but when we got there early she warmed up by racing some of the staff members. :)</div>
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They divided the kids into three groups, or "houses," each with their respective colors. They also assigned a missionary family that works with GV to each house. The Sheriff house was the white house. Each house had a little bafa they'd made out of palm fronds for the kids to sit under while they were waiting for their events. </div>
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I busted out some of my old cheerleading moves and tried to teach them a couple cheers before the festivities began. They were not super impressed. I'm already planning to do some stunting next year and toss a couple kids in the air. THAT will be sure to impress them!</div>
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After the opening ceremonies they lit a tin can on fire and a representative from each house ran around the track.</div>
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Our family (me) chose Marie to be the representative to run around the track. Sorry, but there was no way this lady was going to do that. Sierra Leone is real hot.....and this lady doesn't really run.....</div>
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One of the first things I noticed when I arrived at Grace, was that none of the kids were wearing tennis shoes. They all received new, beautiful tennis shoes from a donor not that long ago so I was really confused as to why they were wearing socks and flip flops.</div>
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Silly Emily. All these years you've been running with tennis shoes!!! Now I know why I always got lapped at the track!</div>
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One of the funnest things about the experience were the different games we got to see. They turned our field into a track with hand drawn chalk outlines and had the classics like the 800m. race, the 400m race and a relay.</div>
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But they also had other fun games like this one: Find My Shoe</div>
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This event was only for the girls, which another missionary and I thought was so wrong! We told Peter that next year we're making it for the boys too! He just giggled. Silly Americans. Other events included "Fill My Basket" (with cans of tomato paste) "Tug of Peace" and "Music of Chairs."</div>
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One of the things that was the most disturbing to me was the high jump. When we pulled up and I saw how high they were making it, I wondered how they were going to modify it since they didn't have the cushion to land on. They. Didn't. Peter explained that they put some extra sand at the bottom for them to land on. This picture shows the extra sand. Do you see it? Yeah, me neither.</div>
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Ben and Haddie enjoyed some sardine sandwiches with their friends while they watched the festivities.</div>
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Peter got REALLY into the sports day as coach and encourager. Also, come to find out he's just a little competitive!! Doing a little dance when the SHERIFF HOUSE WON!!!!!</div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After pacing around in the waiting room for what seemed like forever, waiting to find out what the heck was going on inside me, the nurse took me to a room with
several other women and their babies and did a cervical check. I was only
1-2 cm. As soon as the nurse told me this, I immediately felt two
things. The first was relief. Baby probably wasn't struggling while trying to come out sideways, and my water probably wasn't about to break any second. The
second thing I felt was annoyance. Lots of annoyance! What the heck!?!?! I'd been
in pain for HOURS and....nothing. Women walk around 1-2cm dilated for
WEEKS before giving birth and some women are that way all the time just from having previous
children. Again....What the heck?!??!</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">The nurse left the room to go
call the doctor to let her know what was going on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From my bed I could hear the two nurses call
one doctor who said he wasn’t on call.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Then the next doctor they called said it should be the previous doctor on call. Playing the game "Who's On Call"......some things are the same in every country. :)</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">They must have figured it out
because a few minutes later one of the nurses came in and said they were going
to give me a shot for my pain and wait for the doctor to come in a few
hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now that I knew I wasn’t in danger
of delivering soon, I was ok with that, although I really would have preferred
to get an ultrasound to make sure I wasn’t bleeding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I knew that would never happen at this
time of night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There wasn’t anywhere in the room for Peter to
hang out so after they gave me the shot, he went out to the car to sleep for a
little bit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I put my mosquito net down
and after the medication took the edge off my pain, slept off and on for the
next couple hours. At one point, I looked up and the bed next to me was
occupied by a woman in scrubs (presumably an employee) snoring away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">At six o’clock, a doctor came
in to check me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> By this time</span>, my pain
was improved and my contractions had all but stopped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She did another cervical check and said that
I was 3cm and things were progressing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I was skeptical though,</span> since my contractions had all but stopped. I suspected that my “progression” from a 2 to a 3 was more
likely just a subjective difference in the measuring of the doctor and
nurse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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An hour later another doctor came to talk to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was the doctor that I’d been seeing for
my prenatal care. She also asked how I was doing and I explained that my
contractions were pretty much gone but that I was still having this weird pain.
It was better after the medicine but I was still concerned as to what was
causing it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After chatting for a little bit,
she decided that I could be discharged and come back if the pain got worse or
my contractions returned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter and I
decided that instead of going back home, we’d get a hotel room by the hospital,
just so we’d be closer in case something happened.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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leave when the doctor came back and said that she’d talked to her supervisor
(the head of the department) and he wanted to admit me for observation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To be honest, the idea of an air-conditioned
hotel room sounded MUCH better than hanging out in the hospital but I was still
worried about this pain I was having so I agreed to do whatever they wanted!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I asked her about the possibility of an
ultrasound because I was worried about this pain that was improved, but not
gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The doctor told me because it was
a holiday (International Women’s Day) and the ultrasound tech was a woman, the
ultrasound machine wouldn’t be available that day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ummmmm....Bummer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">After a few hours, they told
me that they had had a discharge and had an open private room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank you Jesus! One of the best things about
the Sierra Leonean culture is their hospitality!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, despite pulling the curtain around
my bed to have some privacy, for the past several hours I had had nurses,
other staff members and family members of other patients open the curtain to
see and greet me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my present state, I
was not really in the mood for greeting a lot of strangers. Ugly American. </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">We moved into the private
room that had AC (most of the time) and a chair that Peter could sit in!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we sat there, watching the election
coverage on tv, I noticed that the pain medication seemed to be wearing off and
I was starting to hurt again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the
pain continued to worsen, I started getting really worried again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What the heck was going on?!?!?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I was annoyed at being in pain, but </span>I was really scared that something was going
that we were missing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter and I talked
about going to another facility to get an ultrasound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t want to offend the doctors at this
place, but something seemed to be going on and I felt like I wasn’t getting answers
that I needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We decided to risk
offending the doctor and went in search of her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">I was having trouble walking
at this point because every step was so painful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The doctor was in her office seeing patients
so we waited outside until she waved us in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As soon as I walked in her office, she said, “You don’t look good. What
happened?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I explained that this pain
that had initially brought me in had returned and I was worried.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter and I wanted to go to another facility
to get an ultrasound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She told me that
the way I was looking, she was worried as well and that she would send me to
get an ultrasound here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t mention
that I thought there wasn’t any ultrasound and just thanked Jesus that I wouldn’t
have to get in the car to go track one down somewhere else in the city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">I was informed that I was
really lucky because the man doing my ultrasound was the head of the department
and very knowledgeable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank you
Jesus!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first thing that he noted on
the ultrasound was that baby was head down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Woo hoo!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was so excited about
that!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He looked around and said that
everything looked ok with baby. I clarified that he didn’t see any bleeding
anywhere because I was worried about an abruption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he asked if I had any vaginal bleeding I
replied that I hadn’t, but thanks to Dr. Google, I knew that 20% of the time,
there is none.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He looked around again
and didn’t see anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">The only other comment he had
was that the baby was really big.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
doctor was in there at the time and they both mentioned that maybe the pain I
was having was the baby stretching and moving around because she was so
big.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, my joy over avoiding a
c-section because baby had turned was cut short when the doctor said that I
would still need one because the baby was so big, there was no way I could
deliver myself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Peter and I went back to the
room to talk about this new information. To be honest, I wasn’t really sure that
my pain could be explained by a really big baby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ben was only 4 pounds 14 ounces (granted he
was a preemie) and Haddie was about 7 pounds. So,
it wasn’t like I had a history of giant babies. And the two I’d had, had
basically slid out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">The doctor came in while
Peter and I were discussing what to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I asked the doctor when she’d want to do the c-section and she said she
wanted to do it today. Woah! Wait a minute! I asked if I could just wait to go into labor for myself and then if it looked like baby was too big to come,
we could move to a C-section.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s
when she started mentioning all my worst fears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She said that if I started delivering vaginally and got into trouble,
she would "not guarantee" that everything would turn out alright.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The doctors who needed to do the surgery
might not answer their phones, their phones might be off, they might get stuck
in traffic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right now, she could
guarantee that the surgeon doing the surgery was very good, but if it was
emergent, it would just be whoever, and they might not be as good. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">These were all things that SHE mentioned, but that had been running through my mind for 9 months. They </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">were all of my worst
fears about delivering a baby in Sierra Leone.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">My biggest fear had been to go into labor during the election and not
being able to get ahold of anyone to come in. After that it was a fear of going
into labor at night, a weekend, a holiday, etc.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Anything that would make it more difficult for the needed personnel to
get to the hospital, making it more dangerous for Baby and for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">I know that if I'd been in the States, a C-section
would probably not have been on the table at this point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I was only 38 weeks, had no history of really large babies, and now baby's was head down!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I wasn’t in the
US.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And in staying in Sierra Leone to
have my baby, I’d gone against what probably 99% of the medical people in the
States would have counseled me to do. (Heck, if someone had asked me, I would have encouraged them to go home.) I was hesitant to continue to defy the medical experts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did not have a history of big babies, but
my sister gave birth to a 10 pounder, and I was there. I remember watching the doctor struggle to get her
shoulder out. And I felt the same fear now, that I felt then as I prayed for that doctor to be successful. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">And with that, my decision was
made. I know that C-sections are riskier than vaginal deliveries, but I also know that a planned, scheduled C-section would be a lot safer than an emergency one. There were still so many unknowns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’d had
the best anomaly scan that could be done in Sierra Leone, but it wasn’t the
same as having one in the States and one of my other big fears was that there was a congenital abnormality that would be an emergency after delivery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> This weird pain was, in my opinion, also still an unknown. With this new, concerning unknown of a large baby, Peter and I decided to go ahead and do the C-section. We signed the consent. Incidentally, I also asked to please sign a consent for a tubal ligation (tying the tubes). As much as we already loved this little bundle of joy, since you're going to be in there anyway......</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">I don’t know if it worked in
my favor or not, but I’ve seen countless C-sections done in Sierra Leone, while I worked in a hospital here. So I knew generally, what to expect. They came in to start my
IV and I received my very first foley catheter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The nurse and I walked down to the OR with my bag of IV fluids in one
hand and the bag of my own urine in the other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">One of my big fears was the
spinal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I LOVED my epidural at home,
but was nervous about getting that one and even more nervous about this one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After poking me a few times but still unsuccessful, the anesthesiologist (I'm going to call him that, although I really have no idea what his actual credentials were) called his boss over to do it. In the end they were able
to get it in and much to my relief I began to feel my legs getting heavy a
little while later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">I recognized the surgeon as
one of the doctors that I’d seen earlier that morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I watched as the rest of the OR staff bustled
around to get things ready and tried to catch what they were saying in
Krio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I laid down on the table and they stretched my arms out along the board they had laying under me for that
purpose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The anesthesiologist put up the drape and
they got started.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since I’ve watched
this surgery so many times, I laid there envisioning what they were doing based on
what I felt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sighed a BIG sigh of
relief when I could feel what was most likely them cutting me open and it didn’t
hurt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank you Jesus!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">At this point, I don’t know
if it was the spinal, the adrenaline or some other medication they’d given me,
but the oxygen mask they’d put on me started to feel like it was suffocating me
and I called out that I was going to vomit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Someone came right away with an emesis basin and I was able to turn my
head in time to vomit in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I started
trembling, although I didn’t feel particularly cold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The anesthesiologist was very sweet and got a
machine that blows hot air from a tube.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
looked familiar and I recognized it as the tube that attaches to a warming
blanket (a “blanket” that is filled with hot air and designed to warm up or
keep patients warm).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> They</span> didn’t have the actual
blanket but he put it under a towel that was laying over my chest and it still
felt nice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">A few minutes later I heard
the familiar cry of a baby and the nurse brought her over so I could see
her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I only got a cursory glance as I
was continuing to try not to vomit but when I asked the nurse if she was ok, I
sighed in relief when she enthusiastically said “yes!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Lord, thank You</span>!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifSb9v5AC0wjuaza2iAkMcoQO4E0kok0kBXNIKkO6Y6T5Gcw5mFFqZMHDidKxs-aE8zKTX7A547-dWqD1GY40Y6zWsGrNXsnoY8KKw8b4oPWb3TiCCxMJiSdux3dk7YmAkiJivjTTXuBQv/s1600/IMG_4728.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifSb9v5AC0wjuaza2iAkMcoQO4E0kok0kBXNIKkO6Y6T5Gcw5mFFqZMHDidKxs-aE8zKTX7A547-dWqD1GY40Y6zWsGrNXsnoY8KKw8b4oPWb3TiCCxMJiSdux3dk7YmAkiJivjTTXuBQv/s400/IMG_4728.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So little!!!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">The rest of what I’ll recount
will be snippets that I remember of the next hour and a half.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now that baby was out, they could safely give
me medications to knock me out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t
think they were planning on knocking me out until I became a little too
vocal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At one point I heard the doctor
say, “See right there? See where the blood is pooling?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> I’d been afraid I was
bleeding before I went into the OR so when I heard that blood was pooling
somewhere, I got scared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I called out
and asked if everything was ok.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
continued to talk to themselves and the tone of their voices, as well as their
movement seemed to be a little more amped up than it had been.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I called out again to see if everything was
ok.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was the most helpless feeling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could picture the scene that I’d seen so
many times before with the clamps holding my abdomen apart, and gloved hands
moving things aside to get the bleeding to stop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At that point I started praying for Peter and
my kids, should something happen to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m sure it was overly dramatic to fear that I’d die on that operating
table, but that’s how it felt in that moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The doctor must have sensed I was nervous because she bent around the
drape that was separating us and said something akin to “You want me to tell
you the truth, right? There is some bleeding but you’re going to be ok.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The next thing I remember were members of the
OR staff laughing and I immediately knew everything was better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I took this opportunity to call out again,
this time making sure that the doc was going to do the tubal ligation that I’d consented for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Three times. Three times during my periods of being awake, I verified that they were going to do it before they closed me up. :) </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">I have no idea how long I’d
been on the table at this point but the muscles in my arms and back were
aching terribly and I just wanted it to be over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was also around this time that my legs
started tingling and I realized that I was feeling more than just the tugging
and pulling sensations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It appeared that
my spinal anesthesia was wearing off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Unlike an
epidural which has the numbing medication running continuously, a spinal
injects the medication once).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I laid
there for what felt like a really long time and told them I was going to vomit
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I called out that I needed something
else for the pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I couldn’t take it
anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The doctor said something unintelligible and someone came over and put something in my IV.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few minutes later, night, night Emily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">I woke up and saw that
someone was standing next to a whiteboard that had numbers written on them. He
was talking to someone else and they seemed to be in somewhat of a debate. I
assumed it was the count (sponges, clamps, etc) that they do before they close
someone up and I prayed that nothing would get left inside!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">The next thing I remember was
noticing that the primary surgeon who had been on my right side was gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The one on my left was sewing away which
meant that they must be closing me up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was confirmed a few minutes later when someone said “we’re almost
done!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was so relieved. I was so sore
from my arms being stretched out and the shaking that wouldn’t seem to stop no
matter how much warm air was blowing onto me that all I wanted to do was lift
my arms up and bring them to my chest. I must have tried to do just that while
I was out because when they were getting ready to move me to the stretcher I
noticed that they had to untie my hands from the board and I had no memory of
them being tied in the first place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">They wheeled me into my room
and I saw Peter’s face. Phew! I assured him that I was ok.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They got me moved over to my bed and the
nurse told me that I was going to need to lay flat for 24 hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Say what now!??!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d worked in a surgical ICU for years and
had never heard post-op instructions for a patient requiring them to lay flat
for 24 hours after surgery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew that
they were trying to prevent a spinal headache (which can happen after spinals
and epidurals if the fluid leaks out), but I’d still never heard those
instructions before!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was already
grumpy about what I’d been through with the surgery and was NOT happy to hear
that I’d have to lay on my back for 24 hours. No pillow, nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHwk9nH-oN62rQX6_rKR3M6M3YUYN3_qEBe_5h0D5Z1SIgs78dXlcXNu36jfwv86BjaMyODX9xF2RAeZ_LvnSLL2Uj1WTQePLerlwkfvYBq1KCh9yO2aDsSV-elUdqIHxfppsoxilNpkNL/s1600/IMG_4726.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHwk9nH-oN62rQX6_rKR3M6M3YUYN3_qEBe_5h0D5Z1SIgs78dXlcXNu36jfwv86BjaMyODX9xF2RAeZ_LvnSLL2Uj1WTQePLerlwkfvYBq1KCh9yO2aDsSV-elUdqIHxfppsoxilNpkNL/s400/IMG_4726.JPG" width="300" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The beginning of my 24 hours. I don't know when they put the paper on my gown, but I guess it's safety first to make sure they took the baby out instead of chopped off my leg or something! </td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">A little while later they
brought little baby yet-to-be named in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She was in a little bassinet covered with a mosquito net, and she looked
perfect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And she didn’t really look big……Out
of curiosity I asked the nurse how much she weighed and they told me she was
3.4kgs (about 7 pounds 8 ounces).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not a
big baby, and incidentally about half a pound smaller than Haddie had
been.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No. Comment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had just been through what I would probably
describe as one of my top five worst experiences in my life, but I was
alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My baby was alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The answer to the question that had been
occupying a large amount of my thoughts over the last 9 months…..”how was this
going to end?” was here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were
ok.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were all ok.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank you, thank you Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">I mentioned before that my
spinal started wearing off during surgery. Well now whatever “knock me out”
medicine had worn off as well and I was feeling the fact that they’d just sliced
and diced my abdomen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As soon as I was
settled I asked the nurse if I could have some pain medicine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She brought me some right away and gave me a
shot in my bum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About 30 minutes later
the edge of the pain was gone and I could focus on something else. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I asked the nurse how often I could have it
and she told me I could have it every four to six hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank you. I’ll remember that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sure enough, four hours later the pain was
back in full force and I asked for another shot of the good stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The good stuff wasn’t the REALLY good stuff
because it wasn’t a narcotic. It was basically injectable ibuprofen (we don’t
have it in the States) but it worked really well!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">We found out when I was
admitted, that Peter would not be able to spend the night with me in the
hospital.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We thought that even though
they didn’t provide a bed, they wouldn’t mind him bringing his own mattress to
lay on the floor, but that was quickly vetoed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was probably for the best since he’d spent the evening killing
mosquitoes in our room and lost count after 40.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Baby and I had a net but he wouldn’t have had one and that would have
been a miserable night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He decided to
get a hotel room near the hospital because he didn’t want to drive back and
forth from our house every day (an hour and a half one way) and I felt better
knowing that he was at least nearby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peter smacking mosquitoes all evening. He tries to catch them in his hand. Unfortunately for us, mosquitoes are not only annoying, but also dangerous as they give us malaria. <br /><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They had these really cool mosquito nets for Lettie's "crib." I was so thankful that she was protected!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">He was supposed to leave by
7:30 that evening but ended up staying until 11:30 and I was really thankful
for the grace that the nurses gave us in not making him leave earlier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
kissed him goodbye and it was me and baby on our own for the night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I drifted off to sleep and woke up at about
2:30am in quite a bit of pain. It had been 5 hours since my last shot of pain
medicine so I called the nurse in to ask for some more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She told me that I couldn’t have it. Wait,
what? I verified that the doctor said I could have it every 4 hours and she
agreed, but said that I was asking for it too much and needed to wait. I
disagreed. Strongly. I’ll admit that I felt a bit like a drug seeker because I was asking
for it about as frequently as I could have it, but I also saw no reason for me
to lie awake in pain for several more hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I mean, it wasn’t even a narcotic for goodness sake!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told her that if the doctor said I could have
it, that I really needed her to give it to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She told me that she wouldn’t give me the shot, but that I could have it
rectally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whatever floats your boat,
sister!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A little while later I felt
sweet relief.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought about sharing
with her the fact that studies have shown that surgical patients recover
quicker when their pain is controlled…yada, yada, yada, but didn’t think she
would appreciate that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">It was clear
that I needed to take my pain control into my own hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fortunately, I’d suspected this would be a
problem and brought my own ibuprofen and the Tylenol with codeine that was left
over from my last delivery. (One of the benefits of having two babies in less
than a year is that your pain medication isn’t even expired yet!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And thus, my breaking of hospital rules
began.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">It was a long sleepless
night, so Google became my friend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am
a RULE FOLLOWER so even though I felt pretty confident that I wasn’t doing
anything wrong, I still needed the verification.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sure enough, nothing that I read about post
C-section rules said anything about laying on your back for 24 hours after
surgery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, almost everything said
that you should get up and walk as soon as you were able.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew it!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I also googled eating and drinking after C-sections because by this
point I was hungry! I hadn’t eaten anything since lunch two days ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sure enough, most of what I read regarding eating
and drinking after a C-section said that you should take it slow, but at least
start drinking fluids as soon as you were able. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">That settled it. When I started to feel the pain coming back a
couple hours later, I broke the first rule by getting off my back and out of bed to get the
meds out of my bag. I got the bottle of water that Peter had left and quickly
downed one of the pills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Naughty Emily!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But sweet, sweet pain relief.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">The next morning Peter called
me to see how my night had gone and I told him it was fine, but that I needed
him to do me a favor. Now that I’d started breaking rules, I was on a roll.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told him I needed him to stop at the
grocery store and get me some cereal that I could munch on….oh! And some
apples, get some apples too!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh, and
water! Get some water to put in the little mini fridge so that when I’m allowed
to drink, I’ll have some nice cold water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was 8am in the morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wasn’t
SUPPOSED to drink anything until 5pm that evening and I couldn’t eat anything
until 5pm the next day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since I’d
already had my stomach grumbling (knew I had bowel sounds) and had no nausea, I put my covert ops into motion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I had stashed the pain pills in the drawer next to my bed and tossed the
cereal in there as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I started slow by
just drinking sips of water, but by that evening my rule breaking was in full
force. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was still staying on my back
for the most part though and I sure was relieved when 5 o’clock came around and
I was allowed to sit up!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peter hadn't gotten much sleep the night before either, so he rested on the metal chair when he came back.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">I’ll be honest and say that it had been a
REALLY frustrating day.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I was mad that I
had to follow all these rules that I knew were not “best practice.” Our room
was swarming with mosquitos and I’d woken up with over 30 bites on my legs that
morning….even WITH sleeping under a mosquito net.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I was in pain, I was sweaty and gross but couldn’t shower, and I was really bummed that I was in all this
pain from a surgery that in hindsight, my small baby said I probably didn't need. What I really wanted,
was to be in a familiar hospital, in a familiar country with some of the best
medical care available.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I just wanted to
be at home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">So 5pm rolled around and I
was legally allowed to get up! I was dizzy and almost fell over because it
turns out that staying on your back for 24 hours actually does make you a
little weak. They brought me in a big flask of hot water with some tea and told
me I should drink a cup of tea every half hour. I drank a cup and then went to
get the water out of the fridge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Wonderful, wonderful cold water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(The water I’d been smuggling was next to my bed so didn’t stay
cold).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, when the nurse
came in, she saw me drinking the cold water and got really, really upset.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She told me that I absolutely could not drink
cold water because it was very bad for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When I asked her why, she couldn’t really give me an answer, she just
knew that it was very bad for my abdomen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lost. It. Not to the
nurse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I kept my cool with her, but
Peter had to bear the full brunt of my frustration when I dissolved into
tears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had been looking forward to
that cold water for hours and there was just no reason for me not to drink
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was the culmination of a lot of
frustration and I told Peter that I’m out. I wanted to go home, to my own bed,
with no (or at least way less) mosquitoes and drink water from the fridge with
ice added to it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">In the end, Peter talked me
down and when the nurse came back to make me pinky swear (I kid you not) that I
would drink lukewarm water (a compromise….instead of the hot tea) I
agreed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I promptly went to my room, took
a swig off the bottle of water I’d had by my bed (thus fulfilling the pinky
swear) and then drank my cold water. After all, I promised that I WOULD drink the lukewarm water, not that I WOULDN'T drink the cold stuff.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">Later that evening, Peter and I went outside for a walk. We ended up chatting with a nurse and I mentioned my frustration with some of the outdated post-op practices. She actually understood and, having worked other places with more up to date practices, became frustrated as well at times. But what could she do? If she broke the doctors' rules and they found out she would get into trouble and could lose her job. I appreciated her perspective and was thankful for the insight that allowed me to be a little more patient with the people telling me what to do. Incidentally, during our walk I had several people remark how "strong" I was to be walking around. I wanted to tell them that it was amazing what could be done when someone wasn't in pain, but didn't want to blow my cover and make everyone mad at me. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">I’d seemed to reach
the pinnacle of frustration the night before, but something happened two days later
that made me forever grateful for the hospital and their staff.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">One of
the surgeons came to check on me and happened to ask how the baby was eating. Little
Lettie (by this time we’d given her her name) was not eating well.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I just couldn’t get her to wake up enough to
eat well!</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">The nurses came to check on us
and would usually find her sleeping. When I voiced my concern that she seemed
to be sleeping TOO much, they assured me that newborns sleep and she would wake
up to eat. My other babies had been sleepy as well but they had both had a high
bilirubin (which can make babies sleepy).</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I wondered if that’s what was going on with Lettie but I had no way to
check and even if I did, I had no bililights to put her under.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">At one point I undressed her to take her outside
to get some sunlight, because that can help lower bilirubin.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I know people thought I was crazy but I was at a loss for what to do with so few diagnostic and treatment options.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">So the doctor asked how she
was and I told him about our breastfeeding struggles. At that point she’d only
eaten two or three times for about 10 minutes in the last 24 hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know that newborns can go awhile without
getting milk, as it takes some time for mom’s milk to come in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I didn’t know how long was too long.
When I told him how much she’d been eating, he said that was not nearly enough
and asked the nurse to check a blood sugar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Blood sugar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh. My. Gosh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It hadn’t even occurred to me to check a
blood sugar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve been a nurse for 14
years, taken care of countless cases of low blood sugar and it hadn’t even occurred
to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was so embarrassed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I should have KNOWN!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Low blood sugar can also make you sleepy. I’d
been so focused on her bilirubin that I hadn’t even considered the simpler
possibility.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">The nurses checked her blood
sugar and sure enough, it was 30.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> L</span>ow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pulled out the tin of glucose
that had been on my list of things to bring to the hospital and the nurses mixed
it with water and fed it to her in a cup.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I stood by…..crying of course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
was scared for Lettie and felt like a failure as a mom and as a nurse!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The nurses were so sweet and encouraging.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Little Lettie perked up and when they
rechecked her blood sugar again a little while later, it was better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Later that evening, she seemed to be pretty
sleepy again.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I planned to ask them to
do another blood sugar, just to check but was so scared they wouldn’t want to
do it.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Since the nurses hadn’t historically
been super excited about things I’d asked for (pain medicine, cold water, etc)
I was afraid they would tell me that Lettie was fine and didn’t need it.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">If they didn’t want to do it, I was at their
mercy.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I prayed, prayed, prayed that
they would be willing to do it.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">When I called the nurse in to
ask her to do it, after explaining what had happened earlier that day, she
easily agreed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank you Jesus! Peter went
and bought the testing strip at the pharmacy and when he brought the receipt
back, they checked her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Her blood sugar was fine. </span>She was doing
fine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Phew.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">I had Lettie on a Thursday and
by that Monday, it was time to go! This was confirmed that morning when I woke
up to use the restroom and there was no more toilet paper. When I asked the
nursing aide for another roll, she told me that they only give out one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ok then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Fortunately, I’ve lived here long enough to know never to travel without
some in my purse so I was ok, but I took that as a sign that it was time to
head out! I’d used up my toilet paper quota.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">By the time the doctor came
to see us that morning, we were packed and ready to put our things in the car.
Peter went to pay the bill and we loaded our precious blessing into the car and
went home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Compared to my last
experience giving birth (epidural, jetted tub, room service including
milkshakes and excluding fish heads), this one had been….tough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But after nine months of worrying and
wondering how it was going to turn out, I was so thankful that Peter was
leaving with a healthy wife and healthy daughter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is not true for a LOT of people in this country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> We are very, very blessed.</span></span></div>
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Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644013735982904967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1184595347767393919.post-42666387238245819162018-04-16T06:44:00.000-07:002018-04-16T06:44:27.959-07:00Giving Birth Salone Style.....Part 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">The newest addition to our
family was one month old on the 8<sup>th</sup>! That’s crazy to me! I
thought I’d commemorate the occasion by sharing the story of her birth with the
world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or at least the 2 or 3 other
weirdos who are fascinated by other people’s birthing stories like I am. </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"> I say that I’m writing this in honor of little Lettie’s
birth when really….this is the first time I feel like I’m coming out of the fog
I’ve been in for the last month enough to attempt to put a few coherent thoughts
together. But I make no guarantees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Turns
out the things they say about 3 kids under 3 years are true….all of them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">The births of my children
have all been so different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ben, born 7
weeks early, included an absent husband who was still in Sierra Leone, an
ambulance ride, and NICU stay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not bad
as far as drama for your first baby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Haddie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Haddie was my perfect
birth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her birth included a husband by
my side, a perfectly working epidural, a proud big sister who got to be there
to see it and 5 hours of watching Survivor with Peter and our nurse until it
was time for 2 pushes and she was out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Zero pain, lots of laughing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
perfect way to end my birthing of the children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Or so I thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Surprise!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Full disclosure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I found out I was pregnant with our
little bonus blessing…..I.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Freaked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We had JUST done this!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had
JUST had a baby! We had JUST returned to Sierra Leone after being in the States
for 5 months having a baby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What were we
going to do???<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">This baby was in no way not
wanted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter and I had always talked
about having 4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was more the way (we
thought we’d adopt our 4<sup>th</sup> one) and the PROXIMITY of the last two that
threw us for a loop. </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Our decision to stay here was
not an easy one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Countless nights were spent in deep conversations, often with tears, as we went over the pros and cons again and again.</span></span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">Does the “wisest” decision equal the “safest” decision? If that was true, we probably wouldn’t be here in the first place. But how would I forgive myself if something happened to the baby? What if something </span><span style="font-size: large;">happened</span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"> to me? Sierra Leone has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world.</span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">How could I risk leaving Peter alone with three or four children? The thought of my kids not having a mother was unbearable to me. Around and around and around we went.</span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">Lots and lots of praying. Lots and lots of talking. </span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">But although we went back and forth so many times, ultimately, Peter and I really felt a peace about staying here.</span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">Not that there wasn’t still fear.</span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">And I didn’t have a peace that “everything would be </span>ok<span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">”</span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">I’ve spent years delivering babies here. I’ve seen the worst things that could happen.</span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">Dead babies.</span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">Dead mothers.</span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">And I know that trusting Jesus does not mean that I trust that things will turn out the way I want them to.</span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">Ultimately what I determined for me was that to “trust Jesus” meant that I trusted that He would be there. With me. With Peter. With my kids.</span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">He would walk close beside us….through whatever valley we went through.</span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">Right there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Peter has been traveling back and forth to the US on a tourist visa. His visa expired so it was time to apply for a new one. Because we'd always been paranoid about following the rules exactly, and he had shown multiple times that he would return when he was supposed to, I figured it was going to be a slam dunk. I was wrong. His visa renewal was denied.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">We were told that because Peter and I were married now (he'd still been single when he applied last time) his ties to the US were too strong and </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">was enough to make it “extremely
difficult” for him to ever qualify for another tourist visa.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> We were told to apply for a permanent visa for him. We had asked about a permanent visa for him when we were home last but were told that because we were still living in Sierra Leone he should just continue to travel on the tourist visa. So.......who knows. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">The day his visa was denied was.....a dark day. Although we'd been leaning towards delivering here, I still had the US in my back pocket. I could still change my mind and we could all get on a plane and go back to the States. Until we couldn't anymore. It had also been our Plan A for if anything happened AFTER the delivery and we needed to seek medical treatment in the US. All of that was gone in the course of a few minute conversation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">My due date was March
24.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, my little bundle of joy had
been in a transverse/breech position throughout my pregnancy. At 36 weeks she
was still transverse so we scheduled a potential c-section for March 14. There
was an end in sight! The only thing that we kept wondering about were the
elections. They were scheduled for March 7. And during the day of the
elections, no vehicles were allowed on the road. This was my biggest fear. Not
only was I not supposed to to be on the road (I figured my giant belly and cries of pain would be enough to give us a "pass"), but I was worried about doctors, nurses,
anesthesiologists……not being able to get there. Those were all people I really wanted to be at the hospital if I went
into labor!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Wouldn’t you know it, the
evening of March 7 I started having some weird pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It started at about 7 o’clock that
night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it didn’t feel like labor
pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a weird abdominal pain
that I’d never had before. It was painful to touch my abdomen, every step I
took was painful and by the time I went to bed I couldn’t even roll over
without being in quite a bit of pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At
about 11 I started having contractions, coming 2-3 minutes apart. It could be something, but it could
be nothing, as I have contractions quite a bit during my pregnancies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hospital is about an hour and a half away
so by 1:30 I decided that the pain with the contractions and the fear that she’d
come faster than Ben (who came in 5 hours) made me head into the hospital.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Big shout out to Nicole and Michael who came
in the middle of the night to watch our kiddos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">The ride into town was….quite
the adventure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was the middle of the
night but it was still a little eery as there were zero other cars on the
road.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The main highway is currently
under construction so it’s always a guess as to where the correct road is. They hadn't grated the road yet so it was a bumpy mess and every bump was painful as my abdomen was so tender.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we
were driving, someone flagged us down and Peter stopped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a guy who had been helping with the
election and was looking for a ride home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Peter told him that I was in labor and couldn’t help the guy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The guy started begging but I (probably not
very nicely) said, “Sorry, we can’t. Go, go, go Peter!”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ten minutes later, someone else flagged us
down. Same story, looking for a ride.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">After Peter stopped for the
third time I VERY politely said, “Honey, maybe could we not stop for every
person on the side of the road and have the same conversation with them about
not being able to give them a ride?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do
you think we could do that?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m in quite
a bit of pain here….”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At least that’s
how <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I </b>remember the
conversation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He might give<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you a different rendition involving elevated
volumes and some sort of growl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He told
me that he had to stop because he wasn’t sure who was flagging him down.
Tensions were really high because of the election and if we blew through a
check point that they’d set up for the elections and we weren’t aware of, it
could get really bad, really quickly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>His points were validated thirty minutes later as we entered town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A policeman pointed a rifle at us as we
pulled up to a checkpoint.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As he
staggered to the car, barely able to keep himself up and began talking, it was
quickly apparent that he’d been partaking of the celebratory festivities of the
night and I silently thanked God for my very cautious husband.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">We got to the hospital at
about 3am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As with most hospitals at
night, it was pretty empty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I went to
the registration area, gave them my card and went down to the maternity
ward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">This baby had been transverse
(sideways) throughout my pregnancy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
seemed that no amount of laying upside down on the couch or swaying back and
forth on my hands and knees would convince this little one to turn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the exercises I was doing had me
sitting on my knees on the edge of the couch with my elbows down on the ground
in front of me and my rear up in the air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m not sure if you can see the mental picture, but let’s just say that it provided for several embarrassing moments as we have a pretty steady stream of
people coming to our house and the door is always open!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">My last baby had been breech
as well but she turned by 35 weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
one persisted in either being transverse (sideways) or breech (upside
down).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People will deliver breech babies
vaginally in the States but my doctor here didn’t want to risk it and I
agreed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So for that reason, we had a
scheduled c-section planned for 38 weeks unless she turned before then.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">When this little one
persisted in being transverse, I of course, googled all sorts of things about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> That.....is a</span>lmost always a bad idea. Apparently,
one of the dangers of having a baby with a transverse lie is that if your water
breaks, there is an increased risk of a prolapsed cord, thereby cutting off the
circulation to baby and causing a lot of problems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the UK they often keep mothers in the hospital
for the last few weeks of pregnancy so that they can frequently monitor her for signs of
labor and do a c-section immediately to prevent this from happening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I lived an hour and a half away from the
hospital.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">My water broke before my
contractions started with Ben and he came 5 hour later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And he was my first! I was terrified that my
water would break or I would progress too quickly and something would happen
with the baby’s cord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I arrived in
the hospital, I was desperate to see how dilated I was to see how much time I
had before baby started getting into trouble.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I knew the fact that I came in the middle of the night probably meant
that unless it was a dire emergency, I wouldn’t see a doctor until the morning.
And I was just afraid that although it didn’t SEEM like an emergency at the
time, it could quickly turn into one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>C-sections don’t happen in minutes here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>More like hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">The other thing that was on
my mind was this weird pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It hadn’t
gone away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had spent quite a bit of
time on google that night trying to figure out what this pain could be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It wasn’t coming and going like contractions
did, it was constant. (There were contractions on top of it). And it was
getting worse, not better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course
everything on google said that if you have this kind of abdominal pain while
pregnant, call your doctor right away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The closest diagnosis I could find to match my symptoms was placenta
abruptio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is when the placenta
prematurely separates from the uterus, which of course is dangerous for baby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It typically causes vaginal bleeding but in
20% of the cases, there is no bleeding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
definitive diagnosis can only be made with delivery, although it can often be
seen on ultrasound. I wasn’t having any bleeding but have seen too many “this
almost never happens but in this case it has” to be reassured by that
fact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">I've been called a hypochondriac by many and it is probably true. I will at least admit to hypochondriacal tendencies. Having kids and living here has made it MUCH worse. I actually take my kids to the doctor sometimes instead of sitting home, assuming that my headache is probably an aneurysm but not actually doing anything about it......like I did when I was childless. Either way, all of these things were running through my mind as we hit every bump on the road, stopped for every person wanting a ride and as I stood pacing back and forth in the maternity ward. I just wanted to find out how far along I was so I'd know how much time we had and preferably wanted an ultrasound so I'd know whether or not I was bleeding internally. </span></div>
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Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644013735982904967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1184595347767393919.post-58196424768663017222018-02-13T10:16:00.000-08:002018-02-13T10:16:19.705-08:00Jesus loves me, this I know.......<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Last weekend our family attended a retreat for missionaries
on the beach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It. Was. Awesome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A church from Michigan, people who I’d never
met before, paid for our family (and about 40 or 50 other missionaries) to
spend the night at a nice hotel at the beach. They also paid for all our
food!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The team ended up getting stuck
in Brussels so they couldn’t do several of the programs that they’d planned to
do, but let me tell you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just getting to
rest and hang out with our kids and go swimming in a swimming pool……it was so
amazing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The team arrived on Sunday
morning and we had a little church service, including communion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several of the ladies were quick to offer to
take the kiddos so the adults could have a chance to listen to the
message.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since we don’t’ have a nursery
at our church, this was an awesome blessing!!<o:p></o:p></div>
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As we were sitting there listening to the pastor speak and
singing songs that were so familiar but never sung in our church services here,
I just started bawling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Shocking, I
know).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was just so strange to
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who spends thousands of dollars to
come over here and minister to people (missionaries) that they’ve never met
before and will probably never see again, this side of heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their hearts and attitudes were just so
humble and servant like. “Here, let me hold her for you.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“How are you doing?” “How can we be praying
for you?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I was standing there
worshipping with some close friends, and a lot of strangers, I just felt the
Lord saying, “Emily, I did this because I love you.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of a sudden it wasn’t the generosity of
the people that overwhelmed me, but the love of my God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He loves me so much that He would send some
of His people thousands of miles away from their home, ask them to sacrifice a
lot of money to come, just to show us that we’re cared about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I talked to one woman after it was over and
she said, “You’re not an island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It may
feel like it sometimes, but you’re not.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I may never forget that.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's amazing how comforting it is to sing familiar worship songs!!</td></tr>
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We got back from the retreat on Sunday afternoon and that
night welcomed a team from my home church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They came to do a VBS with our kiddos at Grace Village.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was such a fun week!!!. They did four days
of VBS with our kids and then on Saturday, did a VBS with about 50 kids in the
village while the Grace Village kids had a “serve the community” day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The older kids were trained all week by one
of the team members in leadership and how to lead a VBS and then on Saturday
they each took charge of their station (games, crafts, story, etc).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> It was fun to see those older kids challenged and really taking ownership of their roles as leaders.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Duck, Duck, Goose was a hit!! They thought it was hilarious to add in other animals and call each other "goat" "cow" "sheep"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making birdhouses for craft time. We didn't have enough hammers so we improvised and used rocks.</td></tr>
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Nicole and I gathered all the younger kids together and
explained that we were so blessed to have had these visitors come serve us all
week and now it was our turn to serve the community!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were really excited.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I told them HOW we were going to go
serve the community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were going to……..
GO PICK UP GARBAGE ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD!!!!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was a little pause…and then they all
started clapping and cheering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was shocked!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had great attitudes the whole time! ( I often use trash pickup around the home as a punishment when kids are naughty. They are not usually excited at that time). :)<o:p></o:p></div>
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I was a little nervous about the timing of the team coming,
just because I’m in my third trimester of this pregnancy and wasn’t sure how I
would be feeling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I must say, this
team has been so incredible!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’ve
helped with all the meals, dishes, crying kids and anything else they could think
of to do to help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other day they had
a couple hours between when they came home from Grace and when dinner was going
to be served so they put on some gloves and went around the compound picking up
trash.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just such servants hearts!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Several of the ladies went through my girls' clothes and pulled out all the stuff that was too small. It had been on my list of things to do for months!! Thank you!!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One team member brought a sewing machine for Marie that she's leaving here! She taught Marie to sew a skirt and Marie was thrilled!</td></tr>
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The last few months have had quite a few unexpected
events.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Surprise pregnancy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter’s tourist visa renewal being denied
when we thought it was going to be a slam dunk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The decision to stay here to give birth instead of returning to the
States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A lot of these surprises have
led to me feeling like my safety nets have been taken away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The safety net of excellent medical
care.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The safety net of knowing my
husband could travel to the States with me if we had any issues here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But in the last week, Jesus has used the Body
of Christ in such incredible ways to love on me and encourage me that it serves
as a powerful reminder of Who loves me even more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I may feel vulnerable and even scared at
times, but Jesus has reminded me once again that He’s there with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that He really, really does care.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank you Jesus. And thank you to His many
followers who have been His hands and feet!. So blessed. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644013735982904967noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1184595347767393919.post-23272995120599049352018-01-20T15:23:00.002-08:002018-01-20T15:23:49.360-08:00Now it's personal, Malaria.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Yesterday I was HOPPING mad!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last week I received a call from the man
that cooks for Peter, Mr. J, letting me know he was going to be late because his
grandson was taken to the hospital with seizures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I started going after the possibilities in my head. did
he fall down, hit his head and start seizing?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Or does he have an underlying seizure disorder, start seizing and then fall
down?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As it turns out, it was a febrile
seizure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I saw these a LOT when I was
working in the hospital because malaria will make the kids’ temperatures go up
so high that they started seizing. I breathed a sigh of relief because at least
it was something that is treatable here, as opposed to some of the other options.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The kiddo was diagnosed with malaria and stayed in the hospital
for a couple days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two days ago Mr. J
came to the house and reported that his grandson was still having fevers and
just wasn’t doing well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told him to
bring me the medicine that they were giving him so I could make sure it was the
correct one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead, yesterday he
brought the kiddo to the house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
medicines he received from the “hospital” were a liquid vitamin and Tylenol.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NEITHER kill malaria parasites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I keep a bunch of malaria tests in my house
so I tested him and it immediately turned VERY positive for malaria.. When I
told Mr. J. that his grandson had malaria but that the medicines he had wouldn’t
treat it, we were both mad!! Mr. J told me that the problem is that if the "hospital" doesn't have the medicine, they’ll just sell you the ones that
they have so they can still make a profit. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Peter stopped at the pharmacy, got him the RIGHT medicine
and we set him up on the couch to watch movies with Ben.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I watched him, listlessly laying there
with a vomit bucket by the couch because he didn’t feel good, I wondered if I
needed to take him to the hospital to get his hemoglobin checked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> He'd been sick for a while and I've seen these things go badly.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I decided to watch him for the day and ask
Mr. J. how he was doing the next day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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That afternoon, I left Mr. J and his grandson at the house and went out to Grace Village. We have some visitors here right now and I took one of them out to do some activities with the kids while I saw any that were sick. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the teachers
came to me and told me that he’d gone to the hospital a couple days before,
after being sick for a week or so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
was diagnosed with malaria and typhoid and given a drip of medication.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he was still not feeling well. I asked
him to show me the meds they’d given him and they were…..tylenol and
amoxicillin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NEITHER of which treat
malaria OR typhoid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I. Was. Hopping. Mad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Twice in one day I'd encountered either incompetence masquerading as competence in an effort to make a buck, or gross negligence. Both at the expense of people's actual lives.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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I was particularly upset about Mr. J's grandson because he's a child. I was so mad that I thought about marching myself down there to give them a piece of my mind. In the end I decided that I can't trust my big mouth enough not to say things I'd eventually regret, so I stayed home. But I was still fuming every time I thought about it. </div>
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Today my attitude changed a bit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Early this morning Ben came into our room complaining of a “big owie” on
his head and his foot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I picked him
up, he was really hot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I took his temp
and it was 104.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’d had a cold about a
week ago but those symptoms were pretty much gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve been treating him for a boil on his leg,
but it was much better as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two of
our colleagues here had malaria last week so that, combined with his symptoms
(headache and joint pain?) made me immediately start thinking malaria.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I took him out to the living room and pulled the malaria
test kits out from under our coffee table where we keep them for easy
access.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since I basically test everyone in our
family any time they get a fever, as soon as I pulled it out Ben
started crying and saying “no owie!!” “no owie!!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter came and held him while I poked and it
didn’t take very long for the positive line to show up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, two positives showed up which means
that he is infected with multiple strains of malaria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The darker of the line was the Falciparum
strain, which is the more dangerous one.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As I went and got his treatment and Tylenol ready, I started
to choke back tears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve treated
malaria hundreds of times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve had it
myself multiple times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know that it is
usually a very simple disease to treat, especially if it’s caught early.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this is my own kiddo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As much as I know the good things in my head,
I also know the statistics of 1 in 4 children dying here before the age of
five.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Ben's only 2. </span>I had the images of some of the
kids around Ben’s age that I attempted to treat at the hospital…..but wasn’t
successful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pictured the rooms they
were in when they died. Some in the operating room which was the only room that
had an oxygen tank. Some of them in the ward as I poked them over and over and
over trying to get an IV.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of them
didn’t even make it past the waiting room while they took their last breaths in
their parents’ arms just moments after arriving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The same parasite that killed those kids is
now running through my son’s blood as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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I coaxed him into drinking his medicines and he settled down
on the couch with Daddy while I cooked breakfast for our guests.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An hour later Mr. J came with his
grandson.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His grandson who looked like a
completely different kid from yesterday!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the fever reducers kicked in, Ben perked up as well and immediately
wanted to play with his friend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
would never have known he was sick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
few hours later the meds wore off and he was back to feeling puny, but this is
how it goes with malaria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We thank God
SO much for Tylenol and Ibuprofen!!!<o:p></o:p></div>
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While Ben was taking a nap, I thought about the events of
this morning and was just overwhelmed with gratefulness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because of the education I received (not even
nursing education but just high school!) I can read directions, look on the
internet and know how to easily treat my kiddo for this disease.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because I don’t worry about where my next
meal is going to come from, I can keep a $4 malaria treatment in my house and
don’t have to debate about whether I should choose medicine or food that
day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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This morning as I was thinking about the possibilities, I
briefly allowed my mind to go to the worst- case scenario.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t dwell there, as it was unbearable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as the thought crossed my mind of living
without him here, it was quickly chased by a thought that quietly whispered, “this
isn’t the end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I AM with you. Even in
that.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mr. J's grandson left and as his fever started to creep up Ben just wanted Mommy. </td></tr>
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Malaria makes me mad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Injustice makes me mad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Greed
makes me mad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as I go to sleep
tonight with my son tucked into our bed, after treating another 104 temperature,
I am also filled with gratefulness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An
overwhelming thankfulness for the innumerable blessings I’ve been given.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A renewed compassion to go out and be the
hands and feet of Jesus to the countless hurting people He brings into our
lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And an urgency for people to know
that this world isn’t the end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
brokenness is infuriating and painful and at times utterly debilitating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it’s not the end. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644013735982904967noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1184595347767393919.post-43220033796165543792017-11-22T07:17:00.002-08:002017-11-22T07:17:34.405-08:00Eye Candy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Last week I took four of our kids from the Village to see
the eye doctor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d taken one of the
kiddos before but she had lost her glasses or they broke or….something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kids. <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the girls had an obvious problem with her
eyes so I needed to take her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I decided
to take the other two because after we did some screening at the Village, their
vision was questionable so I wanted to follow up. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I hadn’t been overly impressed with the last eye hospital I
went to, so this time I decided to brave the streets of downtown Freetown and go to the one associated with the governement hospital.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we were
driving down the road away from Grace Village, their excitement was
palpable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the boys remarked that
this was the first time he’d left the property in the year since we’d moved
there!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I felt bad about that!! With 43
kids it can be difficult to move around with them, but I decided we need to
start getting these kids out more!!<o:p></o:p></div>
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After an hour and a half drive, we arrived at the hospital.
When I told them we needed to watch the streets so we would
remember where we parked, the two older boys gave each other a very concerned
look. I am not known for my sense of direction.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We walked to the hospital where we began what would end up
being a 6-7 hour wait.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God bless
appointment times in the U.S.A!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Despite the long wait, </span>I was
really impressed with this place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each
of the kiddos had different problems and they took their time with each
one.<o:p></o:p></div>
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One of the kiddos just needed eye drops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His eyes were fine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another of the kiddos needed glasses. I felt
bad that it had taken us this long to get to the eye doctor because his eyes were bad! When he got
his glasses and could see so much better, he was amazed!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pure excitement!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He told me that I needed to talk to his
teachers though, because apparently another kid had shown up to class with some
fake glasses and they told him to take them off because they thought he was
just showing off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told him I’d back
him up. <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The next two kiddos took the longest. Although it made
for a long day, I was thankful they were really thorough in their
investigations!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They sent us from one
person to another, using different machines, different technologies to see what
the issues were and how to fix them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
news was not good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the kiddos had
what they called “a lazy eye.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew she had a problem, but was hoping that with surgery and glasses,
we might be able to help her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But she
was too old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They told me if we’d come
when she was two or three, they would have been able to help, but at this
point, her brain had disregarded this eye for so long that there was almost no vision in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we did surgery to correct the alignment, it
would be purely cosmetic and wouldn’t actually improve her vision. Surgery is such a risk here that at this point I don't think it would be worth it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The next case was equally as sad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While the previous eye hospital had given this
child glasses, this doctor said that it wouldn’t help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The kiddo had severe scarring on the macula. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He couldn’t tell me how it had happened, but said
it happened years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The scarring made
it difficult for her to use her central vision, and there was nothing that could be done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Glasses wouldn’t help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He pointed to a glass cabinet and said they
had some “devices” that could help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
was mostly filled with giant magnifying glasses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> The biggest issue this girl will face is being able to read. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">My heart broke for these two little ones. There was nothing we could do. So, while the
day was marked with the excitement of a road trip, glasses, and ice cream (of
course!), I left feeling defeated. If
they’d been born somewhere else, had parents who knew there was something that
could be done and access to good medical care, their futures might look
different. Such is the way of things Mama Salone......</span><br />
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Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644013735982904967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1184595347767393919.post-7208228783054173282017-10-09T14:40:00.000-07:002017-10-09T14:41:38.277-07:00Back in the Emergency Room<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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One month ago I was hanging some laundry up to dry when I (oh
so graciously I’m sure) fell off a little step and bent my foot in a weird
way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It hurt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A lot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I couldn’t walk on it very well for a day or two but by day three I was
managing to hobble around on it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
still hurt, but if I bent my foot and walked on the inside, I could
manage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It always felt better on days
that Peter was home and could help with the kids and I could stay off of
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But those days aren’t often, and
staying off your foot with three kids at home……not really feasible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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After a couple of weeks it didn't seem to be getting any better so I went
to see a doctor friend of mine to get a second opinion (mine being the
first).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He basically said the same thing
that I was thinking which was that I might have broken the 5<sup>th</sup>
metatarsal, but if I did it probably wasn’t too bad. I could go get an X-ay,
but the X-rays here are generally so poor that a small fracture probably wouldn’t
even show up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He gave me a little flat
bottomed boot and suggested that I try and stay off it to allow it to
heal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The boot seemed to help a little
as it kept the bones in my foot a little straighter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some friends loaned me some crutches and I
attempted to hobble around.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My attempt at being an ortho doc!</td></tr>
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I could always tell that my foot felt better when I used my
crutches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, although I’ve given
crutches to countless of patients in the ER, I’ve never used them myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How does anyone get anything done on those
things???<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Usually, by noon I was tired
of shoving clean laundry down my shirt to bring it inside and carrying things
in my teeth so I gave up and hobbled around on my boot. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m a month in now, and....it doesn't seem to be getting much better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My ankle,
which wasn’t swollen at the beginning is now swollen, I think from all the
bending of my foot to avoid walking on the outside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So a
few days ago, we decided to go ahead and get it X-rayed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve never broken anything before and in the
ER we just patch them up (after getting a good X-ray so we know what's going on of course) and send them
off to Ortho.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know just enough for
Google to be scary in a land of little medical care. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We decided to go to a hospital in Freetown that only caters
to emergencies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wasn’t sure if they
would even see me since technically it wasn’t an emergency, but I knew they had
an X-ray machine that might be pretty decent, so we decided to try.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They agreed to see me and actually even got
me in pretty quickly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we sat with
the other patients and waited for the results.<o:p></o:p></div>
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While we were there an ambulance came in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having worked in the ER for awhile, I knew
that generally, when an ambulance came in, the patients in the waiting room
would wait.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After another two hours or so, they called me
in for my results.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ER was basically
one large room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So while I was waiting
to see the doctor, I was sitting right next to the patient that was brought in
by ambulance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I saw written on the
whiteboard “Trauma transport from Waterloo- 7 year old boy, TBI (traumatic
brain injury)".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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I tried not to stare but kept looking over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I noticed that he was breathing on his own
but had a device inserted in his throat that meant he wasn’t maintaining his airway very
well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was receiving oxygen and had a
large bandage wrapped around his head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As I watched him, I noticed him doing some involuntary movements that are never a
good sign in a brain injury. I overheard someone mention a motor vehicle
accident.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As I sat there, waiting for my turn to talk with the doctor,
I continued to observe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were two
nursing assistants who were bathing him, preparing him to be transferred to the
floor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other than that, not a whole lot
of activity around him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such a stark
contrast to a pediatric brain injury patient brought in to a hospital in the
States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And this isn’t to say that the staff
was being negligent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There just wasn’t a
whole lot else to do.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I kept thinking about what the scene would look like if it
was in one of the hospitals I typically work at.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He would probably be intubated since he was struggling with his airway, which meant a respiratory therapist at his bedside pretty much non-stop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> There was no intubation equipment in this ER. </span>If he had just come in, we would be rushing
to get him to the CT machine so we would know what the damage was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it was a small hospital, we would be
scrambling around on the phone and doing paperwork to get him the heck out of
here, probably on a helicopter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If he
was at a bigger hospital he would be flanked by a pediatrician, a pediatric
neurosurgeon, multiple nurses as well as other support personnel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But here…..there was just nothing else to
do. Despite the fact that I knew I would look weak to the staff there, I started to cry. I couldn't help myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
could have been my child. Easily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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After they took him to the floor, I continued to wait, and
watch. Even though this ER was WILDLY different from others that I’ve worked at in the States,
there were some things that were the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The board showing what was coming in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nurses discussing what the cafeteria was serving for lunch. And the
apparent universal battle of the ER wanting to send a patient to the floor but
the floor not being ready yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A tale as
old as time. Those small things made it feel familiar enough that I
told Peter if the hospital were closer, I’d want to volunteer there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Too many things to do here! <o:p></o:p></div>
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The doctor came to discuss my X-ray.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were no obvious fractures, although he
basically said the same thing that the other doctor had said. There could be a fracture that was just too small to be picked up by the X-ray. However, it wasn’t
displaced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t even know if it was
plausible or not, but I had this fear that it was slightly displaced and that
every step I took was making it worse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This was good news for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
bad news is that if it’s not broken, I still don’t know what’s wrong and it’s
still pretty painful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I’ll keep “trying
to stay off of it” and pray it gets better.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You get to take your X-ray home as a souvenir! </td></tr>
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Speaking of praying, yesterday I stayed after church to see
the kids of the orphanage that were sick. I’d just been there on Friday but
that was the day the new uniforms were passed out and kids tend to forget they’re
sick when there’s something exciting going on. Sure enough, saw one kiddo on
Friday….and 12 on Sunday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Precious little boys</td></tr>
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They come and see me one room at a time and when I called
the kids from the last room to come in my office, there were so many!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I said, Wow! What is going on in your room
that everyone is so sick?!?!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the
boys spoke up and said that they didn’t come because they were sick but because
they wanted to pray for me and my foot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You
take care of us when we’re sick and we want to pray for you because you’re
sick.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cue the tears again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So blessed in what I get to do with my
life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644013735982904967noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1184595347767393919.post-76072597808995849732017-09-02T14:31:00.000-07:002017-09-02T14:31:46.540-07:00But God....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This has been a hard couple of weeks for a lot of
people!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First the flooding here and now
watching the flooding happening in Houston, in Asia.....Uncle!!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That being said, it’s
been incredible to watch the way people have shown up in the midst of these
tragedies. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Several months ago I read something that challenged me to
look for “But God….” moments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
things are painful and difficult BUT GOD is doing this! BUT GOD has done
this!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last week I had one of those
moments that brought me to tears.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Over the last year or so, I’ve built a relationship with a
teenage girl in our community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She’s 16
years old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As is a sad tale that is far
too common here, she was sexually abused by someone in a position of power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since coming here I’ve seen it happen with
students and teachers, young girls and policemen, and of course family
members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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This girl, Jariatu (not her real name) now finds herself
pregnant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The abuse started when she was
just 14 years old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The man, of course,
has run away and is nowhere to be found.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The people she was staying with said she could no longer stay there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some other missionaries and myself have been
really burdened for what is the best solution for this girl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can we help????<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter and I talked about it and were ready to
bring her into our home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we both kept
wondering if that was really the BEST thing for her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not a Sierra Leonean woman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being pregnant and giving birth is such a
personal thing and there are so many cultural things that influence perception
and beliefs surrounding it. I’ve delivered quite a few Sierra Leonean babies
and until I stopped, was still finding out new cultural beliefs and practices surrounding birth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we were ready to take her in….unless a
better solution could be found.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We kept
praying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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As we were praying, one of my friends kept thinking of two
Sierra Leonean pastors that we know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Peter went to go talk to one of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He said that before he even finished explaining the situation, the
pastor said, “We will take her in! This is the role of the church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will take her as our own daughter.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Peter told me about the conversation, I
just started crying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s so true!! This
is the role of the church!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To care for
the poor and desperate! We can be their “people” when they don’t have anyone
else!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> This is what Jesus would do! </span>We are confident that with this
pastor and his wife, Jariatu will not only be cared for physically, but will be
nurtured and loved and invested in.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The last couple of weeks have been tough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>BUT. GOD. God is still working and is using
His Church!! Someone from the States pledged to send some money every month to
take care of her expenses so that it will not be a huge financial burden to
this pastor and his family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the
church working together to care for His people……and it’s just beautiful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s still a hard situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She’s still a young girl who has suffered abuse and is now pregnant. She
doesn’t have an easy road ahead of her. BUT GOD will not forget her. Of this I
am sure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644013735982904967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1184595347767393919.post-17597686806132571682017-08-24T05:13:00.000-07:002017-08-24T05:13:36.848-07:00Disaster <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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One week and a half ago, Peter and I were woken up at 5am by a
phone call from a friend of ours in Freetown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>His house was being flooded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
few hours later we would find out the depths of the tragedy that was
unfolding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>August is the height of rainy
season here and at 6am the rains caused a mud-slide that was wiped away the
homes of thousands of people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It also
killed hundreds. As of yesterday, 493 bodies have been buried, with hundreds of people still reported missing. There are three holding centers for the displaced with 250 unaccompanied children (can't find their parents). It is reported to be the worst flood in Africa in the last two decades. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Reading the stories has been horrible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But on Monday afternoon we got a call that
made it hit even closer to home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have
a man who has been cooking for Peter and helping us with <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>various household things for the last two
years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter’s known him for many more
years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He called us on Monday to tell us
that his son’s friends had called him because they thought he might have been
one of the flood victims.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wasn’t going to
be able to come to work because he had to go down to the morgue and try to see
if he was there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He called that night to
say that by the time he was able to get down there, it had been too dark to
identify anyone, so he was going to have to go back the next day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Tuesday afternoon he called Peter, crying that his only son
had been lost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do you say? How do
you comfort someone who has just lost everything?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Sierra Leone, most people don’t set up
retirement accounts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They invest in
their children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They spend their money
on school fees and other things to help their children succeed, not only
because they love their children and want them to do well (they do) but also
because the better job their child is able to obtain, the better they will be
able to care for them when they are old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Because in most households men control the purse-strings, sons are
usually in a better position to help than daughters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not always, but usually.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So not only did our friend lose his child, his
only son, it’s like he lost his life savings as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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One of the saddest things that I keep hearing from the
people here in response to this tragedy is “Please God, I know we’re wicked but
please have mercy on us and stop doing this to us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have to start doing better so God will
stop this.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To be honest, one of the biggest things that I have struggled with living here is reconciling the Jesus and I know and love with the pain and destruction that I see every time I walk outside my house. I don't know where the line is drawn between God’s
intervention, sin, and natural consequences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I know that this kind of thing had to pass through God’s hands in order
to happen, but I also know that He is WEEPING with his people and His heart
breaks along with my friend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Statements like
the one above just bring to mind thoughts of the gods of ancient Rome and
Greece, needing to be appeased in order do do this or not do this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s not the loving Creator that I
know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I will wrestle with the tension, once again with
how He could be loving, powerful, and still allow my friend to lose his son. I will once again imagine myself as Joseph, sitting in a prison cell, feeling the fullness of the injustice around me but recognizing that I have no idea what God is doing outside the walls. The massive victory and salvation to come when the time is reached. I
will be frustrated with poverty leading to deforestation that allows hillsides
to be weakened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will be discouraged by
corruption that facilitates the ongoing cycle of poverty, and I will do what I
can.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Another missionary and I gathered up clothes, blankets and
some money that we had here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marie
brought me all of the money that she’d been saving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We bought some foodstuffs that an
organization involved in the rescue and displacement effort asked for and took
it to them in Freetown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are a lot
of things that I don’t know and don’t understand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But right now, I will focus on what I do
know, which is Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will cling to the image of Him dying on a cross because that sealed for me, the proof of His love forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I know this life isn’t the end but we have the hope for eternity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I know that my job is to love Jesus and love
the people He places before me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I’ll
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Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644013735982904967noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1184595347767393919.post-59034335585064554152017-08-04T12:43:00.000-07:002017-08-04T12:43:12.589-07:00Harnessing My Inner Rachel Ray<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Yesterday I was feeling a bit nostalgic and reminiscing
about the time I’ve spent here in Sierra Leone. I was laughing a bit, thinking
about the different roles that the Lord has put me in since arriving here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Roles that were COMPLETELY out of my comfort
zone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An ICU nurse, who’s patient
population was usually over the age of 60 turned pediatric nurse in Sierra
Leone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An ER nurse who had seen exactly
one baby delivered in nursing school turned OB nurse delivering babies in high
risk situations in Sierra Leone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Single
gal with role models like Amy Carmichael and Mother Teresa, ready to blaze the
trail and change the world by herself, turned wife and mother in Sierra Leone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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And perhaps, the most shocking of all…….girl who’s cooking
skills are legendary for always setting the burner on high and burning most
things, adding chocolate chips to African food on accident, forgetting all the
dry ingredients in a desert, among other things…..turned hostess in Sierra Leone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s right. Five days after arriving in
Sierra Leone we started receiving guests from the States and we've had visitors every day since then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our last ones left
a few days ago. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pastor Randy came to teach in the Bible Institute and we snagged him to preach on Sunday as well. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arlene is a nurse who came to stay with us for a few weeks. I was in the office next door and heard screaming and wailing! I ran to see what was going on and it turns out they were just doing some hands on teaching and some of the Aunties were being VERY dramatic about their "wounds." They were in hysterics. :)</td></tr>
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I love having guests. I love getting to watch people see
firsthand what’s going on here. I love seeing people broken by the poverty and
pain, while getting excited about the possibilities. A lot of our guests are
people that I know from home so it’s fun to get to work together in a different
context. That being said, now time for full disclosure. It’s also stretching
for me because…..I’m a terrible, horrible no good, very bad cook.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And these peoples LIVES are in my
hands!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It might be a bit dramatic, but
in my mind, one bad egg and these people are puking all over the place,
confined to their bed and unable to do what they came here to do. And I was the
one that gave them that egg!!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Frank is an IT specialist who came to train our teachers in the use of computers.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We are a full service organization! My dad even had some dental work done while he was here!</td></tr>
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Not only is their health a concern, but so is their general
ability to eat my food and receive the nourishment that they need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mentioned some of my mistakes above.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is not an exhaustive list and I’m afraid
that I’ve developed somewhat of a reputation for my…eh hem….notorious
dishes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have five or six dishes that I’ve
managed to learn how to make and generally avoid catastrophe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However some of our guests stayed for six
weeks so….if you know who they are, you might want to take them out to dinner
when they get home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take them somewhere
that doesn’t serve spaghetti, pasta or rice! <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And my toddler continues to be.....a toddler</td></tr>
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I just love the way that God takes us in our weak areas and
decides that that’s exactly where he wants us to serve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s SO comforting to know that he doesn’t depend
on my strengths or my abilities to accomplish his purpose. Because even with my
six dishes, I still overcooked desert, served the same cabbage salad Every. Single.
Night and burnt things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rachel Ray I
shall never be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But with His help, I can
be faithful. I can be faithful with the things He’s called me to and leave the results up to Him. No doubt some people have undergone some great sanctifying work after going through the trial of my cooking. :)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644013735982904967noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1184595347767393919.post-62649692842002629152017-06-17T15:49:00.001-07:002017-06-17T15:49:28.317-07:00Home Sweet Salone<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Today marks one official week that we’ve been back in Sierra
Leone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All in all we are doing really
well as a family to the adjustment!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our
flight was awesome (much better than my flight to the States alone, pregnant
and with two kids!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter and I were able
to tag-team and although we still didn’t sleep the entire way, our kids
did…..which makes everyone happier. <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shout out to my new favorite airline (KLM)
and airport (Amsterdam).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We got to sit
in the bulk head the entire way so Haddie could lay down in her little bed and
we all got extra leg room! The airport had a play area for the kiddos so they
ran around with the other kids there until they dropped and slept a lot of the
second leg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All in all, not bad at all!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No sleep + play area= really tired kiddos in the airport</td></tr>
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As we’ve come to expect the missionary life to be, our
re-entry into the field was bitter sweet. We celebrated rejoining some of our
friends and grieved those who had returned home while we were away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marie was thrilled to be reunited with her
best bud who lives on our compound and Ben……he was excited to be around the
puppies. He. Loves. The. Dogs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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All the jet lag seems to have done Haddie some good as she’s
slept through the night for the first time the last three nights!! Mommy and
Daddy are HAPPY about that!!!<o:p></o:p></div>
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It took me awhile to get all our stuff unpacked but I’m
feeling better about the state of my house and we are ready to rock and roll
with visitors! We have a pastor vising here who will start teaching at the
Bible Institute on Monday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Monday we
will receive a couple coming to help with the orphanage and my dad comes on
Friday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Busy, busy busy! But we’re so
excited about the things that are happening!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Playing with dolls in every country....this time at 2am courtesy of jet lag</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Other things the same in every country......toddlers</td></tr>
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We went to visit the kiddos at Grace Village to introduce
them to Haddie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were excited to
meet her and of course commented on how fat she was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To that effect they also commented on how my
“body is fine….” Which is translated “Wow, you’re big!!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Got it kids….thanks for noticing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fortunately my nightly ice cream ritual is a
distant memory now so….the Sierra Leonean diet has begun!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ben of course, went straight for the new puppy</td></tr>
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Minus the lack of chocolate chip mint ice-cream, we<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>are really glad to be back!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644013735982904967noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1184595347767393919.post-11776820281651989422017-06-07T22:31:00.001-07:002017-06-07T22:31:38.956-07:00Small update that turned into my birthing story. Read with caution.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Lastt week I had a baby. Wait, not last week.....2 1/2 months ago. That was fast!! As I write this, it's the middle of the night, my family is all asleep and we are getting on a plane in t-really soon. (I'm too tired to actually calculate what that would be). But I thought since I've written essentially nothing since we arrived in the States to have our little bundle of joy, I'd give a quick little update. What, you say? You want to hear my birthing story, you say? Well alright, I can give you a quick snapshot. <br />
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I had a doctor's appointment on the morning of the big day. Like most pregnant women, when the time came, I was ready for this little one to get OUT! I'd been having timeable contractions for months and now that it was time for her to come she was being really stubborn! After months of heading to bed anytime I started doing too much physical activity to get my inevitable contractions to go away, I went for a strenuous walk and all I got was severely short of breath. After basically no physical activity for the past 9 months (and by that I mean probably more like six years.....running in ridiculous heat/humidity with people staring at me yelling "white, white" is not my favorite). No contractions. Nothing. <br />
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So the morning of my contractions I started doing all the old wivesy things to get her out. Walking, bouncing, etc. I had a feeling today was the day. I started doing laps in my parents' neighborhood and as I did, started getting some contractions. Then they started getting stronger. They got to the point that I had to stop walking when I would get one. Pretty quickly they started coming about 1-2 minutes apart. But I'd been having contractions for so many months, I still wasn't sure if they were real. So I kept doing laps. I guess my dad came home from work during this time because while I was pretty far from the house, he drove up to me in his car. He rolled down the window and asked what the heck I was doing. I explained the contractions situation and he convinced me that if I was having contractions that were difficult to walk through and were 1-2 minutes apart....it might be time to go to the hospital instead of having a baby in the middle of the street. Ok, I see your point.<br />
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Peter and I headed to the hospital and I was pretty sure this was the real thing. I'd been having contractions for awhile but these definitely felt different. These were not fun. Now I live in Oregon. I have a lot of crunchy/hippie/all natural labor loving friends (you know who you are). I love these girls! I admire these girls! I am not one of those girls. I did the "natural" labor thing with Ben (to be honest, it was not my choice) so this time I was all about the epidural! And I had a great one. They put that thing in and in 30 minutes I was feeling no pain! <br />
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There were a few reasons for the epidural. One, was to not feel pain. That seems pretty obvious. Although I did threaten Peter at various times in my pregnancy that I may forgo the epidural just so he could see how much I suffered and feel bad for me for at least 10 years. Natural labor is worth at least 10 years of sympathy i.e. foot massages every evening right? But who was I kidding? When those contractions came all thoughts of eternal foot massages went out the window and I was all about the epidural. <br />
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The other reason I was thankful for the epidural was Marie. Marie had been asking to be in the delivery room for months. My answer was always "No" but in my mind I was leaving it open as a possibility. Because of the way my labor went with Ben, I knew I knew I wouldn't want her there if things got crazy. I also knew that if I was in a lot of pain, it would be scary for her and I wouldn't want her there then either. That's why, when I got my awesome epidural and was feeling no pain, I called my mom to bring her on down. She was very, very excited. When she started living with me, I had no childcare so I took her to work with me every day, delivering babies.. She's been around her share of birthing mamas, although she's never actually been in the room. When they arrived, Marie got on her Ipad, my mom read her book and Peter and I watched "Survivor" with our nurse. That was pretty much as exciting as it got until it was time to push. Two pushes and she was out. Peter, my "want to vomit at the sight of blood husband" surprised me and cut the cord. It was a perfect labor, exactly the way I would have wanted it. I was SO thankful for our excellent medical care here.<br />
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Two and a half months later, here we are. We're getting on a plane tomorrow to head back to Sierra Leone. As always, my emotions are mixed. I think the older my kids get, the more difficult it is to leave my family. But God. But God is so faithful. Every time I want to dwell on the pain of leaving our friends and family here, I remember heaven. Even if we stay in Sierra Leone for the rest of our lives, in the grand scheme of eternity, the time is so short. When I think about that, and I think about God's ability to bless us with strength to do His work, joy in the midst of that work and the privilege of having a job to do for and with Him, I just get so excited!! We have also been blessed with an amazing team in Salone, which makes it even easier to return. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coming back as a family of five!!</td></tr>
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So thank you so much to those of you who have loved on us and blessed us while we've been here. We've been overwhelmed by the grace of God flowing through people while we've been here. <br />
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Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644013735982904967noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1184595347767393919.post-71744287386417724052016-12-23T01:43:00.000-08:002016-12-23T01:43:42.430-08:00Pregnant in Sierra Leone<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I've been wanting to write about this for awhile,
but to be honest, by the time the kids are tucked in and the clock strikes
9....I. Am. Done. My brain refuses to function and the energy required to
move my thumb to scroll down my Facebook feed is all I can seem to muster.
But right now, thanks to pregnancy induced insomnia, I have a quiet
house, and a brain that won't turn off. So I will grace the world with my
thoughts on being pregnant in Sierra Leone. :) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I found out that I was pregnant a few days before
we came back to Sierra Leone. SURPRISE!!!! Unfortunately a few weeks
after arriving in Sierra Leone I started having the same signs of miscarriage
that I had with my last pregnancy. Stink. Now what do I do? This is
where I saw part of the blessing of my previous miscarriage because I knew what
the doctor had done in the States so I decided to do my best to replicate it
here. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">The first thing I needed to do was to get some labs done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s a specific lab (HCG) that they will
check once, then check again in 48 hours to make sure it’s doubling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This indicates that the pregnancy is
growing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But where in the world could I
get this done here?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I asked around and
found one lab in Freetown that said they could do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we got the first result, it was very low
for the number of weeks pregnant I was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It didn’t look good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we went
back to get the second set done, it had increased, but only a tiny bit, also
not a good sign.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was six weeks
pregnant but the labs indicated that I should only be 2-3 weeks…..and baby
didn’t seem to be growing the way he should.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>By this point, thanks to my limited medical knowledge and Dr. Google, I
had my diagnosis’ down to either a blighted ovum (where there is a sac, but no
baby inside) or an ectopic pregnancy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An
ectopic pregnancy is when the embryo implants somewhere other than the uterus
(usually in the fallopian tube).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
they kill women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I’d been having some right-sided abdominal pain, which is one of the
signs of an ectopic, so I decided that I needed to get an ultrasound to rule
that out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is where it got a little
tricky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I needed to find a place that 1.
Had an ultrasound machine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2. The
machine wasn’t broken. 3. Had someone on duty that knew how to read an
ultrasound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A difficult trifecta. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">We’d had some luck with a hospital about 2 ½ hours away, so Peter and I
decided we’d give it a shot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we
arrived, we went and bought our little registration card and got in line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When my turn came to go talk to the triage
nurse, they pointed to a chair about 15 feet away from the triage nurse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The table where she was sitting was
surrounded by other people (mostly men) all looking at me, waiting to find out
why I was there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>HIPPA is not really a
thing here. </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Times; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I took a deep breath and started. “Ok….so I’m 7 weeks pregnant today and
have been bleeding-“ She interrupts me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Ok, come closer to the table.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Well that was good. The people around the table didn’t move, but at
least I didn’t have to shout across the room now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I explained my symptoms, showed her my lab
results <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and told here that I wanted to
get an ultrasound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She sent me to the
pregnant lady section of the hospital.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After telling my story to several other people and waiting for a couple
hours, it was our turn for the ultrasound.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I explained my concerns to the “doctor.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He put the ultrasound probe on my stomach to look around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To his credit, he was VERY patient.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He found the little sac, which was a relief
because it meant it wasn’t in my tube (ectopic).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as hard as he looked, he couldn’t find a
heartbeat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally he told me that I
needed to come back in two weeks and they would try again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was only seven weeks and knew that the
likelihood of seeing a heartbeat from an abdominal scan would be slim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hemmed and hawed a little bit and then asked
if he could please try it the other way….the much more personal way. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He looked kind of startled but agreed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I looked at the screen and immediately saw
the little flicker of the heartbeat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was. Shocked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I had been SURE this was going to be another miscarriage! It felt SO
much like my other one, and that, combined with my discouraging labs, made me
blink twice when I saw that beautiful little flicker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And all for the low cost of a $6 ultrasound!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">The lack of medical care here has definitely been a challenge at
times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lack of medical care…..and
the lack of food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two biggest
challenges. </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Times; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I recently found a new maternity clinic that
opened up in Freetown so we went to check it out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the doctor started interviewing me, he
asked about my pre-pregnancy weight and my current weight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I told him, he told me that I hadn’t
gained enough weight and he wanted to see me gain some more before my next
appointment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told him he was the first
person to ever tell me that I needed to gain weight….and that I loved him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I explained that I’d lost quite a bit at the
beginning because I was so nauseated and unfortunately every food I wanted to
eat was thousands of miles away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">At one point I heard a rumor that Liberia had a McDonalds and BEGGED
Peter to drive on over and pick some up for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He refused!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Might as well have
since they would have been cold by the time they got back to Sierra Leone and
everyone knows that MickyD’s fries are best when they are piping hot! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Because Ben came so early, I’ve been a little more nervous about this
pregnancy than I was with Ben.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I
was pregnant with Ben, I had to go to the hospital at 22 weeks in order for
them to stop my contractions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So when I
made it to 22 weeks with no contractions I was super excited!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then they started at 23. </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Times; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">L</span></span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They seemed
like your typical Braxton hicks contractions. They would start when I was on my
feet for long periods of time and would go away when I lay down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Probably perfectly normal. But in the back of my mind was the constant
worry of “what happens if they don’t stop like they didn’t with Ben?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a plan. I had someone bring in the
same medicines that they gave me in the hospital to stop my contractions with
Ben.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve known what I would do since I
found out I was pregnant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But when push
came to shove, it was a little scarier when it looked like it might actually
come to that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">So many of you prayed for me and I am SO thankful!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After about a week and a half of having lots
of contractions anytime I was up too much, the past week or so I’ve had almost
none!! Such a blessing to not have to worry about that right now!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank you so much for praying!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Although there are some challenges with living here while pregnant,
there are also some benefits! Like the fact that you have friends with their
own portable ultrasound machines who come to your house to find out the gender
of your baby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And……It’s a GIRL!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was shocked! I was SO sure it was another
boy that we already had a boy name picked out and no idea about a girl’s
name!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I’ll be coming home in a month or so with the kiddos and Peter will
follow a few weeks later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank you so
much for those who have been praying for me and this little girl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m so thankful that no matter what happens,
we are safe in the palm of God’s hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644013735982904967noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1184595347767393919.post-63326875689729611642016-09-23T04:59:00.000-07:002016-09-23T04:59:28.823-07:00I lost a child this week.....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I lost a child this week. Well, that’s not entirely true. She was never mine. I’ve had family and friends who have lost their children and I would never want to minimize their pain by comparing my situation with theirs. I don’t have a lifetime of memories with this little one. I only had the dreams of them. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Before Peter and I even got married, we knew we wanted to adopt again. But how? How do you choose one from the thousands of orphans in this country??? A little more than a year and a half ago, I saw her picture for the first time. In a crowd of many. She captured my heart. We’ll call her “Sia” (not her real name). Peter and I started praying, and continued to pray for months and months. Things like pregnancies, miscarriages, emergency return trips to the US and changes in the visa rules all dictated that we needed to wait. So we did. We waited, and we prayed. <o:p></o:p></div>
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After my miscarriage in the States, I was devastated. I was sad about the child I’d lost but I was also really sad that the little one that was waiting for me, would have to wait longer. While we were in the States, Peter and I talked a lot about what to do. After a LOT of discussion, we decided that when we returned to Sierra Leone we would go ahead and begin adoption proceedings for Sia. I. Was. Stoked. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I started scouring the clearance racks, Goodwill and St. Vinney’s looking for cute, little girl clothes. I bought extra hair supplies and tooth brushes, a new set of sheets and a new thicker blanket for the “cold” nights. I spent WAY too much time trying to find just the right mosquito net that would match Marie’s and make their room look girlie and cute. We had been talking with Marie about the idea of adoption for quite a while. And Marie actually came to us one day and said that she thought we should adopt Sia. before we EVER mentioned a specific kiddo to her. Once our decision was made, we told Marie our plans and she got really excited and picked out some matching outfits for her and her new sister. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And then another curve ball. A few days before we left I found out…..I was pregnant. Surprise! (Yes, we know how that happens….blah, blah blah. But I’m telling you! There’s a reason people say that abstinence is the only 100% effective contraception!)<o:p></o:p></div>
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So now we’re back to square one. The problem is that we wouldn’t be far enough into Sia’s adoption to be able to get a visa for her to visit the States for me to have the baby. This meant we 1) wait almost another year to start adoption proceedings 2) start the process, bring her into our home, but then have to leave her here when we went back to the States or 3) have our baby somewhere besides the US. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Because Ben came so early and needed the extra help of the NICU, we knew that we wouldn’t want to have the baby here. We started researching and discovered……Kenya!! I spoke to a woman who had had both of her children in Kenya and LOVED it! I started e-mailing her OB/GYN to discuss my options and found out this particular hospital has a NICU, a neonatologist and great success with premies. It wasn’t ideal. I would much rather give birth in my own culture, with friends and family nearby. But it seemed a small price to pay if it meant we could all be together. Finally. October 1 was the day. The day we would bring Sia home.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We started putting things in motion and began talking to her family members about the adoption. Then one day it all stopped. We found out that someone, somewhere along the way hadn’t been completely truthful. Sia did have some family that was willing, able, and really WANTED to take care of her. After investigating for a few days, it was decided by all parties involved that the best thing for Sia would be to go live with her biological family. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I was so happy for her. Adoption is wonderful, but it’s also very painful. For her not to have to struggle with those tough questions of “who am I,” “where did I come from,” etc. would, OF COURSE be best for her. I was happy for her. I was devastated for us. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This week has been a painful one. The “memories” are just everywhere. Well, not memories, but memories of plans and dreams. I have a closet and dresser full of clothes that were specifically purchased for this little girl. I can tell you where I stood in Old Navy when their swimming suits were 50% off and deliberated FOREVER about which bright color would look most awesome against her dark skin. I walk by Marie’s room and see the empty bunk-bed that will remain empty. The packet of toothbrushes and extra toothpastes I bought. More ribbons and hair bows than one little girl needs….but just enough for two. Yesterday I was cleaning up the top of my dresser and found the “Sisters” picture frame that I finally found at Hobby Lobby after looking all over town. It feels like everything is tainted by this. The staple meals that I cook are different now because I’d started wondering if this amount of food would be enough for THREE kids. And would she like it? My Amazon shopping cart has a baby doll in it that my mom was going to bring over for Sia’s birthday in November. I have her stocking for Christmas. I don’t know how many times I’ve imagined the five of us reading our Advent story by candlelight. The “memories” are just everywhere. And they’re painful.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But oh my goodness, how God is gracious. Even in the midst of this pain, I can see His hand of mercy. Thank you Lord, that we found out about this before she came to live with us. How much more painful it would have been for all involved if we had started that process of becoming a family, only to have it ripped apart. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I had the opportunity to go see Sia with her family. At first I didn’t want to go. I’d had a particularly rough evening the night before when I went through her clothes, trying to decide which ones to give her. (I had an entire wardrobe for her but didn’t want to overwhelm her family and make them feel “less than” because they didn’t have that to give her). After doing that incredibly painful thing, I decided I couldn’t go see her with her family. I was afraid I’d just start crying and make things more awkward than they already were. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I changed my mind. And WHAT a blessing it was that I did!! The next day Peter and I went to see little Sia. To be able to see her with her family, see how comfortable she was with them and they with her, was like putting cold water on a painful burn. It was soothing. And God was so gracious. I held it together until we were leaving. The pain isn’t gone……but being able to see them together, a family reunited, made my pain feel less in light of their joy. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Although I see a lot of things here that make me ask, “Why God? I don’t understand this! I don’t see Your hand here. I’m really confused,” this wasn’t one of those times. It was pretty simple. We live in a broken world and people sin. Someone that I’d never met didn’t tell the truth a long time ago, and that lie started events in motion that ended with our family being hurt. Sin has consequences. Our pain is one of the consequences. Life here on earth is hard. It’s not heaven. But to see Jesus working……forgiving, healing, comforting……I’m so thankful. Thankful that we haven’t been left alone. Thankful that He makes things new, and makes beauty out of ashes. He promised that we would have trouble here on earth, but He also promised to be with us in the midst of that trouble and pain. And He will overcome. What an awesome God we serve. </div>
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Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644013735982904967noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1184595347767393919.post-18331017624349124172016-09-08T14:59:00.002-07:002016-09-08T14:59:58.775-07:00Tylenol how I love thee....let me count the ways....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Last night a caretaker from the boys’ house called to let me
know that one of the boys, we’ll call him “Abdul” was unconscious. Unconscious? Say, what? My body immediately went into “fight or
flight” mode as the rush of adrenaline swept over me. In my experience, “unconscious people” don’t
do terribly well here. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Peter was in a meeting so Nicole offered to watch my kiddos
while I ran to see what was going on. I
had just seen Abdul yesterday and he’d been fine. He’d complained of a headache
and tested positive for malaria, so I started him on the treatment. But the “positive” line hadn’t even been that
dark…at least not as dark as the other boy who had tested positive. And he came up to me to complain of his
headache as I was leaving, almost as an afterthought. What the heck had I
missed!??!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I started racking my brain trying to think of what could be
going on so I could be prepared with some supplies. I went to my little IV kit area and had IV
fluid but couldn’t find the tubing or IV cannulas. So…not super helpful. Nice, Emily.
I ran to the fridge and grabbed a soda with some crackers and peanut
butter. When I worked in the hospital, our malaria kiddos would often have
really low blood sugars. Depending on
what exactly “unconscious” meant, I could see if a little sugar rush would
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When I got the house I was led into a dark room, lit only by
a single battery operated lamp. Abdul
lay on the bed with several caregivers sitting next to him and other children
peering in the doorway. They made room
for me on the bed and I sat down next to him.
As I conducted my initial assessment by just looking at him, I saw a 15
year old boy with about 27 layers of clothes on, the top layer being a wool sweater. He was laying down on the bed and responded
by turning his head when asked questions, but wasn’t talking very
coherently. At least what I could
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I got more of the history from the caregivers. Apparently he’d been fine most of the
day. He’d eaten all of his rice and had
been drinking water. No vomiting or
diarrhea that they knew about. Ok. This
lowers my suspicion for extreme dehydration or hypoglycemia. Apparently he’d been doing just fine until 5
minutes ago when he said he wanted to lay down and came inside. Now….5 minutes. I’ve learned in my years here, that I can’t
take things like “minutes” literally.
(Also, FYI also don’t take “I’m coming” or “I’m almost there” literally either). They’re not meant to be taken that way). So when they said it was “5 minutes” it really just told me that he hadn’t been laying in the bed for most of the day. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I checked his temperature and it was 103.6. Pretty high for an older kiddo. When I asked about his last dose of Tylenol
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I took some out of my bag and, with the assistance of one of the caregivers,
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Now what to do. He
looked sick. He wasn’t “unconscious” in
that he was completely unresponsive, but he was mumbling and really restless,
moving around on the bed. Although I had
diagnoses like cerebral malaria and other scary words in my mind, I decided
that because he had only been sick for “5 minutes” I would give the Tylenol an
hour to work. If he didn’t turn the
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I had quite a bit of faith in the Tylenol. Like 80% sure it would work. The other 20% of me felt nervous just sitting
there, but the 80% won out. I sat there
quietly, softly patting Abdul’s arm.
After swallowing my pride and praying for him in Krio (something that
I’m STILL uncomfortable doing because I feel like I can never find the right words), I began
observing what was going on around me. <o:p></o:p></div>
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One of the caregivers began massaging Abdul’s legs. Another one sat near his head and kept
alternating the soaked cloths applied to his forehead. Yet another one stood in the doorway, and with her eyes
fixed on Abdul kept clucking her teeth and saying, “Eh, God.” I wondered how many times she’d sat in a
darkened room like this with some unknown ailment tormenting a friend or family
member….and it not ending well. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I debated about making Abdul take off some of the layers of clothes in an effort to help bring down the fever. But then I remembered when I had malaria. The first time I was in the village, and put on my own 27 layers of clothes. Even though I knew it was the wrong thing to do and had chastised I don't know HOW many parents for bundling up their febrile children....I. Did. Not. Care. I was freezing. So I had some mercy and just prayed the Tylenol would work really well.</div>
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After 15 min. or so, Abdul began talking. He quietly explained to the caretaker that
when he was small he’d had an accident while going to the market and landed on
his head. Since that time, every August
this kind of thing would happen and his head would begin hurting the way it was
now. I didn’t want to just dismiss him
but I felt like I had to explain that it PROBABLY wasn’t a chronic head injury
that just flared up in August. Instead,
it was more likely due to the fact that August is the height of rainy
season, which means it’s also the time that malaria is most prevalent. Since headache is one of the hallmark signs
of malaria, it’s more likely that he just gets malaria every August and that’s
what causes his pain. Everyone nodded their
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After about 45 minutes Abdul was less restless but still
complaining of a headache. I realized I
ran out of ibuprofen in my little medicine bag so I ran home to get some. When I came back, I noticed that all the
caregivers were out on the porch. That
was a good sign! I asked how he was
doing and they said he was sleeping. When I went in to see him he was DRENCHED
in sweat and finally agreed to let them pull off the 300 layers of clothes he
was wearing. He took some ibuprofen and another dose of malaria treatment and
went back to sleep. Everyone (including
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I went to see him today and I wouldn’t have believed it was
the same kid. All smiles, hanging out on
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Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644013735982904967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1184595347767393919.post-43318276872291481752016-08-05T14:07:00.001-07:002016-08-05T14:07:48.046-07:00Kids are the same......<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Well, it’s been over week since we’ve been back…….home?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t even know anymore. We’re back to
where most of our junk is. <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We jumped right in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The day after we got here, we took a break
from cleaning up the rat poop that seemed to invade every corner of our house
and went to see the girl kiddos we’ve been working with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We chatted with them for awhile and they
ooooh’d and ahhh’d over Ben.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we were
getting ready to leave, one of the Auntie’s brought a 9 year old girl…..we’ll
call her “Aminata” over to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They said
she that her “belly hurt.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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The complaint of a “belly hurting” is probably one of the
most common complaints I get when working with 50 little kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is usually vague, non-specific and sounds
suspiciously like what my sister would say when trying to get out of going to
Kindergarten. (Sorry Lis, called out on the World Wide Web).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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But this was different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This girl had tears coming down her cheeks as she walked towards
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I asked how long this had been going
on, asked about other symptoms, and did an exam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the little tests I did in school for
appendicitis seemed to be positive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
told me that she’d been sick for a couple of days so I didn’t want to sit on it
and decided to take her to the hospital right away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re very fortunate that to have a new
emergency outpost near our house so I took her there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They did an exam, gave her some pain medicine
and called their supervisor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After some
discussion, they decided to let her sleep overnight (treat her for the malaria
that of course she had as well) and the next morning she would go with Nicole
to Freetown to the bigger hospital where they would do a more thorough exam,
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The next day she and Nicole went to the capital and spent
the day at the hospital.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They couldn’t
find anything definitive and thought it might be because she had received some
pain medicine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was vomiting and dry
heaving most of the way to Freetown but by the time the doctor saw her, she was
looking better. They sent her home and said we should bring her right back if
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Then next day, Friday, I went to check on her and she looked
much better. She wasn’t doubled over in pain and wasn’t in bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Great! Maybe it was just a virus or
something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, the next night I got
a call that she was vomiting again and was crying in pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I went back to see her and she looked like
she had the first night I saw her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
initial thought was that maybe her appendix had ruptured which was why she felt
better the day before but was now developing some peritonitis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was Saturday night. I knew that if I took
her back to the hospital in Freetown, unless she was in danger of dying THAT
NIGHT, they would sit on her and wait for someone to see her in the
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I decided that I’d take her back to my house so I could
watch her closely overnight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marie was
thrilled to have a “buddy” to sleep with her that night. (One of her biggest
nighttime complaints is that it’s not fair that both Daddy and I have a “buddy”
to sleep with and she’s all alone in her room.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Aminata spent the night and the next morning…..looked better!! She
wasn’t in obvious pain anymore, although her belly was still tender in that
right lower quadrant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hemmed and
hawed, trying to decide what to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
kept thinking about a girl I’d taken care of in the village several years
ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had had belly pain that I just
couldn’t figure out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I treated her for
everything I could think of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I asked the
surgeons to look at her, but they didn’t think it was a surgical case so I told
her parents to just hold on for a couple of days. The American doctor was
coming and he could help me figure out what was going on. She died the night
before the doctor got there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was
rough. I couldn’t go through that again.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I decided that instead of taking her to the hospital in
Freetown, I’d take her to a hospital closer to our house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have two doctors there, one being a
recently arrived American surgeon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
did an exam and decided that he didn’t think it was appendicitis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She wasn’t in enough pain, and it had been
going on for so long that if it WAS, she would be much sicker by this
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He gave her several different
antibiotics as well as some worm medicine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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that night I got another call that she was crying in pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They gave her some Tylenol and the next
morning when I went to check on her she was still crying in pain and wouldn’t
eat anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grrrrr. What is going
on?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That night when I went to check on
her again, she was still crying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
decided to take her back to the hospital the next morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was so weird! She’d been on the
antibiotics for 3 days and I thought she should have started feeling better by
now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The next morning when I went to get her…..she looked better
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No longer in obvious pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I didn’t know what to do. Do I take her
in when she looks better than she had looked when I originally took her
in??<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I needed was a dang CT machine
to give me a definitive diagnosis!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nary
a one to be found in the country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With
my previous patient in mind, I decided to go ahead and take her back in, just
because she’d been complaining of so much pain the day before. <o:p></o:p></div>
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They wanted to do some more tests, one of which was a stool
test.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They gave me a container that was
about the diameter of my pinky finger (MY PINKY FINGER!!!!) and told me to put
some of her stool in there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just
looked at them. Excuse me?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can you
please explain to me how I’m supposed to get THAT from THERE to THERE!?!?!? Well,
I can now explain it if you ever need to know!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Let’s just say that it was done using a pit latrine, an empty water bag
and a stick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No gloves of course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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We waited for the doctor for a couple of hours…..and I
started to get a little suspicious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There was ZERO sign of pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
was happy as a clam, snuggling up to me, laying her head in my lap, watching
the pictures and videos on my phone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
started to feel like I MIGHT be getting played.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I knew that it would most likely be several more hours before we were
able to see a doctor so……I decided to peace out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could always bring her back if I needed to
(and find out the results from the hard earned stool test)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but honestly I felt like kind of an idiot
bringing her back because she looked so much better than the first time I
brought her in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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As we left, Aminata asked if I was taking her back to my
house but I told her no, I was taking her home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A few minutes later she told me she wanted to go play with Marie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hmmmmm…….I told her that she was sick, so she
needed to go home and rest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I stayed at
her home for awhile to make sure she was ok and there were a couple other
things (such as requests for cookies after just complaining of nausea and
deciding that she WAS in pain…..but only when I was paying attention.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that made me think this sickness might have
been extended just a little bit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think
I’ve been well played by a 9 year old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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I was annoyed at first, of course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was annoyed with the kiddo, but I was also
annoyed by myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ER nurse rule
#7:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your patients lie to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(For example: Excuse me sir, I noticed that
you cannot stand up straight, are covered in vomit and reek of alcohol.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How much have you had to drink tonight?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Patient:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>ONE BEER I SWEAR!!!!!!!!!!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
this was different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This precious little
one didn’t feel good and because of that got some extra attention, extra one on
one time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And she wanted more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can I really blame her for that?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She just wants what Every. Child. Wants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To be loved and important to someone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not because she’s one of the crowd, but just
because she’s HER.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Thank you Lord, so much for the privilege it is to care for
these little ones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644013735982904967noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1184595347767393919.post-58626236584891592442016-07-13T12:44:00.000-07:002016-07-13T12:44:45.975-07:00Pledging Allegiance! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Today a friend re-posted a blog that I’d posted exactly one
year ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I read the first line of the
blog and it was something akin to “we’re getting ready to go back to Sierra
Leone!!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could start this blog the exact
same way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whoda thunk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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But here we are! Getting ready to back…..again. <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The last thing we were waiting for before we
left was to get Marie’s citizenship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
we got it!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The significance was pretty
lost on her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While she and I were
waiting for her interview at the immigration office, Peter, my mom and Ben went
for a walk outside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marie repeatedly said
that she really wished she was outside on the walk with Nana instead of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>here in this boring office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sorry, not happening chica.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />
I was pretty nervous for the interview, just because it was the culmination of
months of gathering paperwork….and really, years in the making.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was formulating what my “plan B” was going
to be if, for some reason they said no.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My mind was whirling, I felt slightly nauseated and my hands had a
little shake to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marie just wanted
to go on a walk. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In the end it was pretty painless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The officer had already gone through the
mountain of paperwork I’d sent in, so I just had to verify that it was all
true. We’d had an awkward interaction with the judge during Marie’s adoption in
which she’d started giggling every time the lawyer answered the judge with
“yes, my lady.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d tried to explain
that it was because that’s what princesses and queens are referred to in her movies,
but it didn’t seem to translate very well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I was praying we’d be able to skip that kind of awkwardness this
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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I stood and swore my oath, spent some time going over the
facts of the case…..and then it was done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I was ecstatic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marie was glad
she could go find Nana.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Marie finally got to go on her walk with Nana</i></td></tr>
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We had to kill some time until we could pick up the
certificate of citizenship so we went for a celebratory hot chocolate. Marie started to get into the spirit of
things when she told the barista that she was now a “u…nisyn” (US
citizen). The barista got all excited
and made a big deal about it. </div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Marie's celebratory "tea"</i></td></tr>
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When it was time to go pick up the certificate, Marie wrote her
name at the top of the certificate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
went to adhere her picture to the certificate and I cringed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I stopped the woman. <br />
<br />
“Wait. This is the picture you’re going to put on the certificate? It’s going
to be there forever?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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You see, the picture that she was attaching to the
certificate was a passport picture that I’d sent in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it was not good. The day we’d had the
picture taken was one of “those” days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
had quite a few things that just happened to need to be done the same day and I
was just barely treading water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d
taken Marie’s hair out but hadn’t had time to fix it again so it was…..a little
wild.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And she must have been feeling my
stress because my amazingly photogenic child could give me nothing but her
“constipated smile.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We teased her about
that smile for weeks afterward….and now they wanted to make it part of her
permanent file.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve sent in probably
1,000 passport photos in my day and I’ve never seen one again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now they want to make this one a permanent
one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The woman graciously told me I could use another one if I
had one, which I just so happen to have….a cute one with her hair all braided
and beaded and her thousand watt smile lighting up her face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I ran out to my car to get it and the crisis
was averted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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And now we’re headed back! Marie’s citizenship was the last
box that needed to be checked off before we can go back. Our tickets are
confirmed….July 25<sup>th</sup> we’re out of here!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644013735982904967noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1184595347767393919.post-85403924727214382392016-05-02T09:29:00.001-07:002016-05-02T09:29:47.277-07:00So here's the plan.....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I started to write this blog with something akin to “I’m a
planner and I always stick to the plan.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But then I remembered Marie. Not part of the plan. And Peter. Also not
part of the plan. And I’m supposed to be avoiding hypothermia in Russia, not
sweating to death in Africa. So I had to revise my statement. I love having a
plan. And that’s it. I just really like it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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When Peter and I went back to Sierra Leone in September, we
had a plan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had been praying about
adopting a little girl who was orphaned during the Ebola outbreak for almost a
year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our plan was to finalize Marie’s
adoption, adopt this little girl and then in a year or so, have another
biological child.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Easy Peasy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We finalized Marie’s adoption (on the Sierra Leonean side)
shortly after returning to Sierra Leone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However, the DAY that we were planning to go get this little girl from
the orphanage we found out that some visa rules had changed and we wouldn’t be
able to take her to the US for 2 ½- 3 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which meant we couldn’t take her with us if
we were going to have a baby back in the States in a year or so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That put a BIG crimp in our plans!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After weighing the options, praying about it
and talking about it a LOT (sorry Peter, you knew I was a talker when you
married me), we decided to make a new plan<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Our new plan was to have a baby ASAP, come back to the States and, while
we were here for the baby finalize Marie’s immigration so she would be a US
citizen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After having the baby and returning
to Sierra Leone we would get this little girl from the orphanage and just know
that we wouldn’t be leaving the country for the next 2-3 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a bit of a stretch because our budget
didn’t have us coming home this soon but we found a way it could work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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I soon found out that I was pregnant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But around this time I also noticed a growth
on Ben’s skin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At first I didn’t think
much of it….we get a lot of skin stuff here…..but then I noticed that it was
growing. And it was growing pretty fast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I had some doctors here take a look at it and even found a pediatrician
in Sierra Leone who was trained in Germany….. but had no idea what it was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fortunately, a couple doctor friends had some
suspicions and after sending pictures to the States and watching it continue to
get bigger for about a month, I was told that I needed to come back and have it
surgically removed and biopsied.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it
had to be done soon.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Now this was DEFINITELY not part of the plan!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had already bumped up our trip home for
this new little baby but to take ANOTEHR unscheduled trip!?!?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it was the absolute worst timing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter was supposed to go to Liberia for a
month, my mom was supposed to come visit me for a couple weeks during this
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do I take Marie with me? Does
Peter come?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How long will I be gone? No
idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So….make a new plan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The new plan was that Peter would stay so he
could go to Liberia and I would take Marie with me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We got home and were SO blessed to get right in to see a
doctor and got a quick referral up to OHSU where he had the growth
removed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a couple of weeks waiting
for the pathology results, it was not cancerous!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank you, Lord!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had a follow up visit and the doctor
cleared him to go back to Salone!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had
scheduled a well-child check for him to get caught up on his immunizations and
an OB appointment for me since I was here anyway, so as soon as those
appointments were finished we could head back!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I contacted the travel agent and reserved tickets to travel back on May
14.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would confirm them once Ben and I
had both seen the doctor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a month
of a lot of uncertainty, I loved having a plan again.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On Friday morning, I had my OB appointment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a couple weeks of suspecting I was
miscarrying, my labs and ultrasound confirmed it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Baby was gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m sad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I loved this little one deeply, even if it was only for a little
while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While I’m grieving the loss of
this little baby, I’m also grieving the loss of the one in Sierra Leone. The
one that we want so badly to bring into our family but seems so much farther
away now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another change in our plans.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A couple hours after
my OB appointment, I had well child exam for Ben. The doctor is concerned about
his eyes and wants him to see an opthamologist at a time still to be
determined.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This means there will be no
confirmation of our tickets home right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The month of dealing with Ben’s unknown skin growth was
incredibly challenging. I didn’t know what it was, what we were going to do….or
even WHEN we would know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was so
much uncertainty that at times I would feel physically ill with the anxiety of
it all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I can also say that it was
one of the sweetest times of spiritual growth in my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wrestling with questions of “Is God still
good if…….” Was painful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I spent hours
in my pantry, (which I’ve designated as my little prayer closet), over and over
again giving my son over to Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meditating
on the Truth of Scripture and pouring my heart out to Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over and over again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was convicted that I COULD choose to be
anxious about this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It makes perfect
logical sense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I didn’t have
to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And actually, Jesus didn’t WANT me
to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Phillippians 4 became my
mantra.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Do not be anxious about
anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving,
present your requests to God. And the PEACE of God, which transcends all
understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that’s what happened. I had peace. I
would sit in that closet and just pray and pray about every single minute
detail that was making me anxious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I
did that, it was amazing how my problem, even the unknown health of my son,
became smaller, as Jesus became bigger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It didn’t make sense. Phillippians was right. The peace passed all
understanding because NOTHING in my circumstances changed for weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Jesus calmed my anxious heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes I would have to go there several
times a day because as I took my eyes off who Jesus is and started looking at
the mess around me I’d feel the anxiety welling up, but when I was able to hand
it back over to Jesus, I had peace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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And then I came home.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At first I was just SO thankful, as I met with doctors who
gave me a plan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My son was sick and when
there were no answers in Sierra Leone I was able to get on a plane and come to
a country that has a plethora of doctors and even specialists who will be able
to take care of my son.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I left the
millions of Sierra Leoneans who don’t have that same opportunity behind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How is that fair?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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I made plans with the doctors and within a few weeks I had
the “not malignant” diagnosis that I was hoping for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were back on schedule!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I was able to pass my problems off to
doctors with answers and relaxed back into the comfort zone of familiar
language, customs, and relationships, it was almost as if I said, “Ok Jesus.
Thanks for all your help! I’ve got it from here.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Back to my plans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I became SO easily distracted by all the
things around me and I lost the DESPERATION for Jesus that I’d had in Sierra
Leone when I had nothing else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was
back in control!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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But I found that as I stopped pressing into Jesus, I
became…..frustrated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Annoyed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I missed my husband. Discussions about
ministry were going on in Sierra Leone and they NEEDED me to be there!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted to be there NOW.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I’m embarrassed to write this because it’s
not very “missionary-ee” but…..it’s true).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A couple of weeks ago, when I started having signs of a miscarriage,
instead of handing it all back over to Jesus as I’d done in Sierra Leone and
resting in HIS plan for our lives, I became overwhelmed with how this changed
all my plans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Baby, adoption, Marie’s
immigration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On Friday when the miscarriage was confirmed and then a few
hours later I got the news that depending on what happens with Ben’s eyes we
could be here for several more months…….I gave up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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As control was once again taken from me, my eyes were pulled
from looking around me to looking to Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lord!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Will I never
learn?!??!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can the lessons I so
painstakingly learned just a few weeks ago really be swept away by a few weeks
of comfort and security!??!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<br />
This morning I wept in church as we sang about God being a good, good
Father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About His ways being
perfect…….perfect for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the
conviction of my sin rolled over me, it was quickly followed by thankfulness
that “The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in
lovingkindness.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, so patient with
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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So as of this moment…….when am I going back to Sierra Leone?
Don’t know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are we going to adopt?
Haven’t a clue. Are we going to have another biological kiddo? No idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When am I going to see hubby again?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not sure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I have no plan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as someone
who could probably be described as a control freak, I can look to my Father and
be so thankful that He doesn’t want to leave me that way. That He’s bringing
circumstances into my life to slowly chip away at the things that keep my
relationship with him from going deeper. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644013735982904967noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1184595347767393919.post-16883795812053242472016-03-14T02:53:00.000-07:002016-03-15T01:04:21.200-07:00Swimming and...."chimp...ing?"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Nicole and I have decided that we want to start taking some of the kiddos we’ve been working with out in smaller groups as a way to get to know them better. We have a monthly beach get together with some of the ex-pats in our area so we decided to start our experiment by taking a couple of the smaller girls to the beach. I knew if they were anything like Marie, who was TERRIFIED to go into the water her first time to the beach, they would probably be happy just playing in the sand. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We didn't have swim suits for the girls so tied up one of Marie's for Abiatu (on the right) and loaned Messie (on the left) a pair of Ben's shorts and t-shirt. She ditched the t-shirt pretty quickly :)</td></tr>
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They seemed to have a great time, although I noticed that at one point, little Messie was shivering. I figured it was just because she was cold so I took her up to where we were sitting. She was super snuggly and Nicole noticed she was really warm. After lunch she didn’t want to play, but wanted to take a nap. A nap! At the beach! (Which incidentally is MY dream at the beach, but hasn’t happened since they kiddos arrived because they would never dream of taking a nap….at the beach. After the beach I took her home to check her for malaria and…sure enough. Poor little kid was trying to party hard at the beach but just couldn’t keep up.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So snuggly!</td></tr>
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We learned a couple things at this trip. Number one, too many white people. They were so shy that they didn’t really come out of their shell and talk because there were too many strangers speaking a language they didn’t understand. Next time we’ll go with just our family. It was fun to see them start chatting with each other sometimes, albeit done in whispers. If only I knew what was going on inside their heads. <span style="font-family: "wingdings";">J</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We were watching the monkeys behind a giant net because the chimps kept throwing rocks at us. The boys loved it! :)</td></tr>
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We had a good time with the girls at the beach, but decided to take a few of the boys to a chimpanzee park that’s here in Sierra Leone. They’re boys, right? They should love animals. They seemed to have a good time but honestly, I think their favorite part was when we brought them back to our house to eat lunch and they rode Marie’s bike and played with random toys. Ben’s toys were a particular favorite. </div>
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Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644013735982904967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1184595347767393919.post-16632527375165362962016-02-21T02:07:00.000-08:002016-02-21T02:07:20.462-08:00Not quite what I had in mind.....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Yesterday I had a clinic day with the kiddos we’ve been
working with. I wish you could be inside my head and see all the plans and
hopes I have for these kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>BIG
plans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>BIG dreams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want them to know how loved and precious
they are to Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want them to FEEL
loved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want them to know that they
have some people in the world who will go to bat for them, who will fight for
them and who will encourage them. I want to teach them to read, to be educated
and to make a difference in their country! I want them to KNOW JESUS!!! I want
them to spend their lives being utterly amazed by His Grace and to pursue Him
with everything they have.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I want
them to love people. They are the most vulnerable of the vulnerable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have no possessions and no “inner
circle” of people who care about them the way a mother cares.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Jesus uses the weak and the broken to
minister to His people and I want them to GET THAT!!!<o:p></o:p></div>
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So many dreams. So many desires for these precious
kiddos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it plays out so well in my
head!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s embarrassing to admit, but
with my rose colored glasses fully intact I was envisioning myself as a
younger, more robust…..Mother Teresa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Take that Malaria!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You shall
not have this precious child because I will vanquish you with my Artusunate Combined
Therapy and Healing Touch!!” I will lovingly stroke every fevered brow while
inspiring a deep devotion to Christ as they sense his Love through said Healing
Touch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And to be honest, the first few
clinic days it felt like that!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Malaria
be gone!! Scabies, you’re outta here!!” <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then we went
yesterday.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And it was hot. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And the kids crowded around me so tightly I thought I was
going to vomit.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And I made the rookie mistake of asking who wasn’t feeling
good and got 90% of the hands raised.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And the malaria is still there even though in my mind it be miraculously cured by the new bed nets we gave them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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And that stubborn rash is still there and I’m not sure what
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And I had a conversation that went like this:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Kid: Auntie,
give me your sunglasses.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Me: No, I’m
using them right now.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Kid:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Give me your sunglasses!!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Me:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Um, no.<o:p></o:p></div>
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promised me you’d give me your sunglasses!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I did not!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Me:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No!<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Kid: Ok,
give me an egg.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Me:……….<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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As I <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>poked what
seemed like the 100<sup>th</sup> kid to check them for malaria, the thought
crossed my mind that “this isn’t quite the romantic scene I’d envisioned.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
like the malaria and stubborn rashes don’t even know about my Healing Touch!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is getting kind of monotonous. Malaria, malaria, rash, malaria, abscess, malaria, malaria. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But as I put another bandaid on another foot I realized
(again….for surely I’ve learned this lesson before and just forgotten) that
this is real life. This is real ministry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There will probably be moments of pure bliss and excitement, but those
will be well hidden among a thousand moments of day to day faithfulness. Monotony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Faithful in the little things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Faithfully<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>and tenderly treating tummy aches and headaches and every other ache
that kids can come up with.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lord, help me to be faithful in the little things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Help me to faithfully love these little ones,
not just when it is convenient or feels good, but daily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Faithfully.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I want to be compassionate because You are so full of compassion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And when my compassion fails, help me to love
these kids because I love YOU and YOU love these kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And when I don’t FEEL loving toward You, help
me to faithfully love these kids out of obedience to You.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">One day at a time.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></div>
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Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644013735982904967noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1184595347767393919.post-52628945424592104332016-02-11T04:10:00.002-08:002016-02-11T04:10:39.700-08:00It Was An Accident!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My three biggest fears here are snakes, car accidents and
blunt force trauma to the head with no available neurosurgeons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m being forced to face these fears as last week my husband gallantly
saved us from a snake that was crawling in our gutter and a couple days ago
Nicole and I were in my/our first car accident in Sierra Leone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I’m really hoping I don’t have to face the
“closed head injury” fear but…..I am raising a boy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh dear.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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For those of you who have been here, you know that the
driving is just…..crazy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are very
few rules and what ones there are aren’t really followed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Except for the “no driving in flip flops
rule.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’re sticklers about that
one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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Nicole has been driving around our “neighborhood” but I had
to go to town for a meeting so she came along and we decided she was ready to
tackle driving to Freetown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we were
driving and she was enjoying the customary honking at people (come on
Nicole…you told me you love it) I told her that every time I make it back home
from Freetown without an accident I thank Jesus! Literally.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Five minutes later, it happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were driving down the main highway towards
town when the car in front of us stopped suddenly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nicole did awesome and was able to stop, but
the motorcycle riding our bumper wasn’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>His head broke our back window.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
felt a wave of panic as the reality of what happened hit me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I looked in the rearview mirror and saw that
the driver was wearing a helmet and that all three people who were on the bike
climbed off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ok.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone was alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank you Lord.</div>
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One of the reasons that accidents are in my top three fears
here are because of the things I’ve seen happen AFTER the accident. Things can
just escalate very quickly here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I heard
about two ex-pats who were travelling up country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their driver hit a person with the car and
then fled the scene.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The two guys he had
been driving were trying to figure out what to do when a mob gathered and
carried the guys into the bush and beat them up pretty badly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another friend of mine, a Sierra Leonean, got
in an accident involving a pedestrian and a mob immediately gathered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The policeman that came told my friend that
he needed to go with him directly to the police station because he wasn’t safe
there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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So that, combined with the lack of adequate health care,
makes me really, really nervous about accidents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I watched the people climb off the
motorcycle, I sighed in relief that they were ok.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now what?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You would think I’d have a plan for when something like this would
inevitably happen but….I was at a loss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I knew that if I showed any sign of weakness the whole thing would turn
out to be my fault so I put on my “angry face” (kind of like a Mrs. Potato
Head) and got out of the car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I slowly
walked to the rear of my car and gave a big “sigh” when I saw that my window
was shattered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I gave the driver a quick
glance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was definitely shaken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had a tiny cut on his hand and said his
head hurt (no kidding) but looked ok.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The passengers had already joined the small crowd that was forming, so
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I had so many emotions boiling up at the same time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was shaken by what had just happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was thankful that no one had been
hurt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was afraid of the whole thing
escalating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I was angry at the
motorcycle driver. I am so so so tired of the recklessness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He not only put his own life at risk but the
two people who he was carrying and every other person on the road.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t know what else to do so I did what
I’ve come to do any time I don’t know what to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Call the hubby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My knight in shining armor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or more like shorts and a t-shirt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtED2Jv2G-6Y_bvkOpIErM-Hjjl6O3xxXoWes7YtR3aydZlXuHb924SGB8WT_P1faHKALxwZ3rAuH-hZWifkSaSngliHHroT65oApxVtgl5GtW-VGGXzxCe1iEd62MH-buBsyx5_UGTccm/s1600/IMG_3119.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtED2Jv2G-6Y_bvkOpIErM-Hjjl6O3xxXoWes7YtR3aydZlXuHb924SGB8WT_P1faHKALxwZ3rAuH-hZWifkSaSngliHHroT65oApxVtgl5GtW-VGGXzxCe1iEd62MH-buBsyx5_UGTccm/s400/IMG_3119.jpg" width="223" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So this isn't a picture of him actually coming, but this is what he looked like in my head. So tough! :) Especially with Marie's picture riding shotgun........</td></tr>
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Peter arrived and we exchanged cars so Nicole and I could
make our meeting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was so relieved to
get out of there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> We left for the meeting and every time I had to brake I watched my rearview mirror in fear!</span></div>
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When I got home later I asked Peter what had happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It turn out the guy had no license, his
motorbike wasn’t registered and the next day his friend told Peter that he was
smoking pot right before he left the house and was listening to music in his
earbuds while driving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grrrr…..<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were promised a new back window by that
evening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was a week ago and no
window yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not holding my
breath….. <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span></div>
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Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644013735982904967noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1184595347767393919.post-62798670422050668942016-02-01T06:17:00.001-08:002016-02-01T06:17:22.772-08:00It's All About the Shoes Daaaahling.......<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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When I came back to Sierra Leone in September, I wasn’t
really sure what I was going to do. I a few ideas in mind but wanted to
give it a couple months in the country before I committed to anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted to work on figuring out my new role
as “wife and mom in Africa” before I took on anything extra. I wasn’t sure what
Peter’s job would entail and how I would need to help him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, I think I’ve found what I’m going to be
working on. And I’m really excited about it! <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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When we were in the States at the height of Ebola, a pastor
friend of ours e-mailed to tell us about a group of kids that he needed help
with. Their parents were victims of Ebola and they needed help. At that time
there was SO much fear in the country that a lot of relatives didn’t want these
kids because they were afraid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The idea
of starting our own orphanage was thrown around in America but we could never
get the funding to start it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter and I
sent some money over as we were able and Marie and I printed out their pictures
and hung them on the wall in our house so we could pray for them every night
before bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We told our friend that we
couldn’t get the funding together so f he could find anyone else who could take
care of these kids, he should definitely hand things over to them!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We got word a month or two before we came
back that he found someone to support the kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Awesome!<o:p></o:p></div>
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As we got back to Sierra Leone and got settled, we went to
check on the kiddos that we had been praying for. I wanted to see how they were
doing and I really wanted Marie to see that the kids we’d been praying for were
REAL kids and were going through REAL heartache.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I think this is one of the biggest blessings
in living the life we’ve chosen).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After
meeting with the kids and the leaders I found out that yes, they had been
receiving help, but it was kind of a hodgepodge of people supporting the kids.
One man agreed to pay the salaries, one group was paying for the feeding, one
woman paid the rent, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there were
holes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>School was about to start and
the kids weren’t going to be able to go because they didn’t have any way to pay
their fees, let alone money for their uniforms and school supplies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They also didn’t have any money for medicine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My ears really perked up when I heard that. <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Before we left, my dad received a grant from rotary for
$3,000 to be spent on “orphan care.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When we arrived we weren’t sure how we wanted to spend that money but a
plan began to formulate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My amazing
husband met with three schools that were near where the kids live and they all
agreed to waive their school fees “as their Christian duty” to help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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We calculated what we would need for uniforms and school
supplies. Then my hubby went to town and spent <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">12 hours</b>……shopping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He took
the orphanage director with him and wouldn’t let Nicole or I go because as soon
as they saw our skin color they would jack up the prices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The uniforms were being made by the school so
they didn’t’ have to buy them but they did need to find the supplies,
undershirts, socks and shoes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shoes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shoes were the biggest problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can’t really take 50 kids with you into a
big city to buy shoes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Imagine 100+ mini
Goodwills with everyone selling their used clothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Except in this case you have to negotiate
every price and have multiple people yelling at you to come into their store
and shoving their goods in your face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">SO </b>not my idea of fun. <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTca8Uv2F7lGo8BTN8jjtmCwlK57dLrJq3JXMg9Tu1gpy1MzEQn4B7igw-2F0Ln6p9sMaeoQ5ooOdrM9D7xJslwiSTV_8lbTJ_uqdr7mC1vryvrys5bbKgJqDAPu0mvOz9EpKl6-zigQU0/s1600/IMG_1347.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTca8Uv2F7lGo8BTN8jjtmCwlK57dLrJq3JXMg9Tu1gpy1MzEQn4B7igw-2F0Ln6p9sMaeoQ5ooOdrM9D7xJslwiSTV_8lbTJ_uqdr7mC1vryvrys5bbKgJqDAPu0mvOz9EpKl6-zigQU0/s400/IMG_1347.jpg" width="298" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taking 100 random shoes and trying to find all their matches</td></tr>
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But my hubby is a trooper so he left the house at 6am (because apparently you get better deals early in the morning) with traced, cardboard outlines of every foot
and came back with 50 pairs of black school shoes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were quite a few “this won’t do for me”
comments during the distribution (all from the girls mind you).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One poor girl with “feet like a man’s”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>giant shoes still didn’t fit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Might have to import those from the
States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Anyway, after being about a week late getting to school, it
was so fun to go there on Sunday night and see all the girls’ hair all fancy
for school. <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>LOVE getting to be involved in this kind of
ministry!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We had 50 bags with each bag having the kiddo's shoes and school supplies<br /><br /><br />P.S. I didn't include any pictures of the kiddos in this post since I mentioned that they were orphans. Friends of mine who have been working with orphans tell me that the government doesn't want us posting actual pictures of kids if we mention in the post that they're orphans. Just so you know. :) </td></tr>
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Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644013735982904967noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1184595347767393919.post-980737039169480422015-12-23T11:19:00.000-08:002015-12-23T11:19:28.762-08:00The Best Christmas Pageant Ever!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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On Sunday, Marie had her Christmas play at church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It. Was. Awesome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After living here for so long, there are few
things that make me stop and say, “Wow! That’s different.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve gotten used to a lot of things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However. This is my first Christmas in Sierra
Leone! This was my first Christmas play in Sierra Leone. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The director of the play was so sweet and wanted to make
sure that Marie had a part so that she could mingle with the other kids and
make some friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus, she became
“Innkeeper #1.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were a little nervous
about it because her lines were in Krio and she while she is improving, her
Krio sounds…..well, like my Krio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
practiced her lines at home though (all 3 of them) and during the first
practice, when she NAILED her lines, everyone erupted into cheering and
started dancing around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So sweet. <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Practices were a bit of a challenge because “4 O’clock”
doesn’t really mean “4 O’clock” as much as it means “sometime in the
evening.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Half of the practices we ended
up leaving because none of the other kids showed up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The assistant director explained that you
have to go house to house to collect them, otherwise they will just be “playing
too much.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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My biggest shock came during the dress rehearsal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They went through the entire play but instead
of ending in the traditional way, they decided to go out with a bang with the
ending scene being when King Herod<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>ordered all children under 2 to be murdered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had 4 older girls with young children in
their laps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The soldiers burst onto the
scene and ripped the young children from their laps, laid them on the ground
and slit their throats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The mothers
started wailing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>End Play. Gives you that feel good Christmas feeling doesn't it?<o:p></o:p></div>
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I couldn’t believe what I was watching and Marie, who was
sitting on my lap, turned around and asked why my mouth was open like
that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fortunately a discussion ensued
and they decided that maybe they should cut it short because it was horrifying
(my contribution) it was too long and the kids would get dirty if they laid on
the ground while their throats were being cut (the assistant director’s
contribution).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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My favorite part was the awesome 3 person donkey they made.
It was hilarious!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Mary” was an average
sized girl but was tall and the rear 1/3 of the donkey (where she was sitting)
yelled during every practice that “she’s big! She’s big!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just what every teenage girl wants to
hear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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While there were some differences, I was chuckling to myself
on performance day when I saw all the phones come out to record the performance
and all the proud parents getting up from their seats to get the perfect
shot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some things are the same in every
culture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Merry Christmas!<o:p></o:p></div>
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