We got a small rain last night. We were so excited to hear it hitting the metal roof! It only rained for about 20 minutes but at least it cooled things down last night. The coolness did not last; the high temperature today was 114 degrees which is 5 degrees cooler than yesterday so we won’t complain. At least it did not take the laundry long to dry!
Divine was our first visitor this morning. He had spent the night at the hospital with his brother. He said that the doctor said his brother had been poisoned and he had to do surgery and that his brother was doing a little better but he was still in recovery. We asked him how he was poisoned and Divine said he did not know; it must have been something he ate. We told him that if it is food poisoning they do not do surgery. Divine said that the case was so serious last night. We told him that sometimes if the appendix ruptures the “poison” will spread into the stomach cavity; this is a type of poisoning but it is not from someone trying to kill you or from something that you eat. Steve explained the function of the appendix and told Divine to ask the doctor if it was his appendix. Sure enough Divine called later this morning and told us the doctor said that his appendix had burst. His brother also needed 2 units of blood which none of them was a match for so they had to buy the blood from the blood bank. Ghana Health Services is trying to stop the sale of blood; they want family members to donate. Steve told Divine to come back to the mission house and he would give him some money to help with the medicine and the blood they had to buy which is not covered by the National Health Insurance Scheme. Yes, that is the real name of Ghana’s health insurance!
Steve spent a good portion of the day working on the monthly report and I was doing paper work and I have finally started re-organizing the files. If you remember last year we bought a new filing cabinet; well it is very nice looking but it is standing there empty. Well, it is empty no more.
Red brought the handicapped tricycle to the mission house early this morning before he went to work hauling gravel. It looks good. I told him to have it painted blue; I meant a pretty royal blue color; well as always there is a “language barrier” the tricycle is blue but it is such a dark navy blue that it looks almost black. But at least it is nice and fresh looking. All the other repairs look good. Musa will be so excited when we give it to him. Hopefully we can find him Monday afternoon after he gets out of school.
Take care and keep us and the work in your prayers.
In His Service,
Steve and Kandie
