An unexpected, but necessary intermission…
Soleil has had a fever for three days now. We went to The Surgery this morning . The Surgery is a great clinic/hospital that many expats, NGOs and “upcountry”* organizations use as they even have auto and air ambulance services. We are grateful for the wonderful healthcare available to us in the city for quite low costs.
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*upcountry refers to well, everything above Kampala, which is quite a bit of the country. It is the African bush and village scenario as opposed to our far more urbanized lifestyle here in our 2 million people plus city.
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So anyway, Soleil. Is sick. High fever of 103.8F last night and throughout the night. Miserable. Gave her Tylenol and put her in a bath at midnight and that helped bring it down. She still had a fever around 101 this morning. The Dr. ruled out an ear or throat infection. They are running other tests (blood, urine, etc.) to rule out other issues such as urinary tract infection, malaria, etc. (It’s totally NOT malaria, don’t worry.) The fever has really been her only symptom so he thought it likely to be a viral infection she is fighting but we may know more when we get the test results back.
And in somewhat related news, this blog has run out of storage space for pictures!!! So we will have to have an intermission from my 7 day series as I take care of sick baby and work on my new blog. I could just delete the previous photos but I’ve gotten rather attached to blogging with pictures and would anticipate the same thing happening again so we will have to do a move from this blog to a different one. Just to warn you.
The new blog address will be forthcoming…
We appreciate your prayers for Soleil’s health and our continued adjustment to life and ministry here. I may have had a few moments today being overwhelmed with all we need to do and/or feel like we should be doing. {buy furniture, write newsletters, write thank yous, start language studies, deal with some car maintenance, keep up with ministry, home, neighbors, and etc but you get the idea…!} So as we deal with these normal (but sometimes stressful) things to do please continue praying for us for love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness and self-control in all situations!
We know the Maker of each new day, and we know He holds new mercies for us each new morning, and that is enough.


























