Santi

I know we write about Santi a lot but we would like to ask you to continue praying for us as I know many of you do daily.
Santi has had diarrea since day two of our arrival in guatemala. But he never cried or seemed to be in any pain and we thought it would pass. Well, two nights ago we could tell by touch(we don´t have a thermometer yet) that he had a fever. We gave him some tylenol and the fever went down. The next morning around 5 he woke up hotter than I have ever felt him. I want to guess that his temp was at least 102F. We called the firedept. who are volunteers and it took them about 10 or 15 minutes to arrive. By that time without giving him any meds his fever had gone down a little. The firemen were basically a free taxi. They did not check him at all. We even stopped on the way to the clinic for some other volunteers to pick up their gear from the minivan that is their transport.

When we arrived at the clinic we were the only ones there and the doctor was very nice. She said Santi´s stomache was very swollen but we told her he is just fat. She said no and she listened to it and could hear a lot of gas.
The woman who works in the lab usually does not come until 7am but that day, for some reason, she came earlier. So she took a speciman from Santi and right away we found out that he has an intestinal infection and many many friends having a party inside of him.

We got all his meds and started him yesterday. last night he woke up with another high fever and we gave him tylenol and it went down. He is doing much better today. He is on parasite meds and an antibiotic, plus occasional gas reliever.

His cousin who lives with Beto´s parents is also sick but with a chest infection which is normal for her. What I do not understand is that they checked her and she does not have any parasites or infection in her stomache and she lives here and does not take near as much caution as we do!!!

I feel like I am constantly washing Santi´s hands and then after I dry them I put the waterless antibacterial stuff.
MaRY I was going to send you the names of the meds but I forgot the prescription.

Anyways, please keep us in your prayers. We are planning on leaving Guate for Tegucigalpa next Tue. the 29th. At this point we will have to take a bus for 12 hours which we are not looking forward to becuase flights are very expensive right now.
We are anxious to get to Teguc and see friends and later move into our place in La Esperanza and get settle and started in ministry.