Mr. Iddrisu did not come to work today; he was sick. He thinks he has malaria so he is treating himself for it. If it is malaria he will feel better in a couple days. Steve talked to him and he said he sounded congested. He must not have been feeling so fine yesterday because he only got one of the metal doors painted. He did not say he felt bad but he asked for some Aleve which usually means his back is hurting.
Steve also called Meri, one of our interpreters to see how her son Aliu was doing. She said that they were planning on discharging him from the hospital today. She said that he had to have an additional pint of blood. That makes a total of 4 pints. She said that he was feeling a little better today.
This morning while we were at the hardware store buying paint we saw Zorash, the Child Center receptionist, drive by on her motorcycle. She was not headed for the mission house; she was headed for town. We were afraid that she would not come to work either. She was late for work but at least she showed up.
We started passing out the hand crocheted baby hats this morning. We gave one to every baby / child that came to see us. Forty-six lucky children got hats. The mothers were so proud of the hats! News will get around that we are passing out hats; we expect more mothers to come tomorrow. Our thanks go out to all of those who made hats or bought yarn for the hats or helping with the cost of the extra luggage to ship the hats.
Red stopped by this afternoon to measure the metal for the upper gutters on the house. He plans on coming tomorrow and adding a strip of metal to help stop the leaks. While he was here he fine tweaked the metal storm door he made for Mr. Iddrisu’s office. It would not close properly. After he got it to close completely he added a spring so that when the wind blows the door will stay closed.
Abenada, John Kanbonja’s widow stopped by this afternoon. She had taken her son Michael to the clinic only to find out his health insurance card had expired. Steve gave her the money to renew the insurance but that did not help the child. We expected he had malaria so we took him to the pharmacy and had him tested. The test only takes 15 minutes. Sure enough he had malaria. Steve bought the medicine for him.
We tried a new street food today while we were in town. It was delicious but then it was 3:00 and we had not had our lunch! This was a fried yeast type bread that was seasoned with hot pepper and onions. After it was fried granulated sugar was sprinkled on it. In all the years we have been in Ghana we have never eaten this. The lady that is frying it has not been frying it for very long; she was not cooking it the last time we were in Yendi. We got ours straight out of the grease; it was sweet, oniony and slightly hot with red pepper. A definite must eat again and must see if we can learn how to make it.
Thank you for all you do for the work! We appreciate the help.
In His Service,
Steve and Kandie
