Remember when I was whining about being sick from food poisoning? As it turns out, I should have been whining about being sick from Typhoid. Which feels about the same but sounds much more impressive. =)
I spent the night in the hospital last night, but now I'm home and feeling a bit better. It'll be fine I'm sure. It's not a really bad case at any rate, so it's treatable without me going into the hospital for the next few days. I've got my meds and I'll be back to the doctor on Thursday. So no...
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Friday, October 29, 2010
Ivan, one of the guys in the house, is studying to be a physiotherapist. A couple of months ago, he got a part-time job working for a doctor who specializes in physiotherapy. In all honesty, I imagine he explained the details of the job to me, but truthfully I was either not listening (it happens) or I just forgot. Either way, I...didn’t remember the details of the job. Remember that...it’s important.
So when he asked me last week if I wanted to go see his boss to get a treatment for my back (which has still been bothering me), I figured...why...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
I have the flu. It's been four days. It's dumb.
Well...I'm assuming I have the flu. I have flu-like symptoms. But I've never had the flu for four days in my life. Gravol has become a good friend. At any rate, tomorrow we're going to the hospital to get Yimy's bandages off, so if I'm still feeling sick, I may talk to a doctor as well.
Until then...feel free to pray.
&nb...
Monday, October 25, 2010
Think back (waaaay back for some of you) for a moment to when you were six or seven years old. Or if you have kids, think of who they were (are) at that age. Think about what your biggest worries were or how you spent your days. What made you happy or what made you sad.
Now imagine what it would have been like if you were alone...if you had no parents or family, no house to live in. If you had no idea where lunch or supper was going to come from, or where you were going to sleep that night. Imagine spending many of your most formative years living...
Friday, October 22, 2010
Yimy's back from the hospital and doing fine. He's pretty sore, but he's being a good sport about it. Plus I bought him some chicken (he couldn't eat today before the surgery)...so that helped. He'll be off the soccer field for a few weeks I think. But other than that, he should be as good as new in no time. The doctor said his nose was nice and straight now. I told him she said it would be better than it was before. ...
Thursday, October 21, 2010
This is just a quick note to ask you all to pray. We've been going through some more intense spiritual warfare stuff here over the past week, and tonight something else has come up. It's going to be something really good in the end...but the road there might be a little bit rough. I think that's the best way to put it. A little enigmatic I know, but that's the best I can do right now.
If you could pray, that'd be great. Pray for wisdom and patience for me, and an open heart and peace and strength for the young...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
There are a million things I should probably be writing here. It's been an interesting week for sure. "Interesting", however, tends to mean "Ken get's no sleep". So I've been pretty tired. Everytime I start to write something down, I get a paragraph in and then lose interest. =) So I have a bunch of sort of started posts...
Anyhow...I'll get to them at some point. I did want to ask you to pray for Yimy though. He broke his nose playing soccer yesterday and didn't tell me until he got home...
Saturday, October 9, 2010
These are the moments that try my patience. Remember when they were fixing my truck and I didn't have it for a whole week?! Yea, so I've had it back now for exactly ONE week and as I was leaving David's soccer game, once again I had no steering. I pulled over and sure enough there was a line of liquid on the pavement behind us. I climbed under the truck and exactly where I just paid them $500 to fix it? That would be where all the fluid was pouring out.
So...no truck until Monday when my mechanic will be...
People always tease me about my lack of organizational skills, and honestly...I can't deny it. If you gave me a list of numbers and told me to add them up I probably wouldn't get the same answer ten times in a row. It's the way I'm wired. I'm honestly just not a person who thinks about all the details, or has everything figured out three steps in advance. People know this and it makes them smile. It usually makes them shake their heads a little too and pray for a wife for me. I've gotten used to it.
Lately though, I've been thinking that maybe...
Monday, October 4, 2010
My friend Corina wrote this in one of her update letters last week...
"The reason why Santiago, one of Marco’s boys, came to El Jordan was because he was involved in gangs in his neighbourhood. But he wanted out...and he wanted to study. He’s been “out” for at least a year and a half but his old gang is pressuring him to get involved again. They wait for him after school; they’ve roughed him up...and threatened worse. The school principal called Marco and wanted to arrange a meeting with the rival school where these other...
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