Transportation

Tomorrow morning, Craig will head over to Sacha Runa to help transport the lady who had her leg amputated to the mission hospital to have her stitches taken out. We will also hopefully be purchasing her some crutches. Craig has also purchased wood to build a better bridge to her house. Craig ordered the wood to be cut to the right size yesterday, then carried it to our house today (some he hauled on his back weighed way to much for him to do what he did with them - but he is sort of stubborn that way :). He will treat the wood this weekend, and then the team will help carry the wood to Sacha Runa and build the bridge next week.
The lady's husband will most likely be carrying his wife on his back (much like they carry babies here) to get her to the road where Craig will have the car waiting. We are praying that the river is low enough to drive over tomorrow morning. Today was nice and dry - lots of blue sky -but the river was still a little high.
Natalie Joy said she had the 'best birthday ever' and is now 7 years old. I can't believe how quickly my girls are growing up.

We did get news today that Brooke's EEG showed some abnormal activity and that they believe she has a benign type of epilepsy that normally goes away when she is in her late teens. We have never seen her have anything that would even look like a seizure -but we had taken her in due to blackouts. She is fine in Ecuador, but complains of the problems when we go back to the US. Anyway, no meds are needed.

Valerie Grace continues to do great, we are still waiting to hear from St Judes about whether or not they can fly us from our home here for followup MRIs.

Courtney is doing well. We just put all four girls back in the same bedroom - which we all like better. It seems they get along better when they all share the same room :) That frees up space for a guest room. We already received an email that cousin Steven might be visiting in July!

Love,
Celeste


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