Monday, June 23, 2008

Bonjour,

This morning, Nana packed her suitcases. Gilbert thought he was going
on the airplane too. First, he wanted to find his jacket; he remembered
wearing it on the airplane. He wore his jacket all day long. Then, he
told me that he needed his suitcase. I told him that Nana was leaving
but that we were staying here. He kept trying to think of a way that he
could go with Nana.

I got a few more letters written to send back with Nana. Then, I worked
on insurance paperwork.

Joe started coming down with something last night. He hasn't felt well
today either.

Danny has fifteen mango fly bites on his back. When the mango fly
bites, it leaves an egg under the skin. A worm comes out of that egg.
We just put cream on the bites until they turn yellow; then, you know
that the worms are ready to come out. Danny is also teething and has a
cold.

We left the house at 16:00. We had a doctor's appointment for Bonnie at
17:00. When we got to the doctor's office, Joe's doctor was there. Joe
was able to get a prescription for malaria from him.

When the doctor saw the "rash" on Bonnie's bottom, he couldn't believe
it. He asked me how long it had been like that. I told him that it was
like that when she came home from the hospital. He asked what they had
told us to do at the hospital. We told him that they had not said a
word and that we didn't even know it was like that until we got home.
It is not a rash but a second degree burn. He prescribed a disinfectant
and a burn cream. We are supposed to apply both of those five times a
day for a week and then take her back to the doctor. After that has
cleared up, she will get her first shots.

Rebekah Walker, wife of Ronnie Walker, came from Ghana today to the
hospital where the pediatrician is. She has three different strains of
malaria, one of them being cerebral malaria. They caught it just in
time. The doctor said that if she had waited another half a day, she
would have gone into a coma. We stopped in to visit her for a minute
after we finished with the doctor's appointment. Please pray for her.
She is coherent but is very weak.

We ate supper and then headed to the airport. Joe put Danny on top of
the luggage cart, and they went to help Nana check in. Gilbert was
trying to think of a way that he could get upstairs to look at the
airplanes. I told him that he had to have a ticket to go upstairs. He
said, "Well, let's get one, Mommy."

Both boys cried for about the first ten minutes of the ride home. They
finally calmed down. Gilbert was still trying to think of some reason
that we could go back to the airport.

We got back home at 21:00. Everyone is ready for bed this evening.

Please pray for Nana as she travels home. Her flight left her at
22:00. She has a six-hour flight to Paris, a four-hour layover there,
and then an eleven-hour flight to Houston. She should get to Houston
tomorrow afternoon at 1:45.

A demain,

Joe, Laura, Gilbert, Danny, and Bonnie