A Visit to the Hospital

Sooooooooooo I went to the hospital this week, story time. 

So my anak had a bump on her thigh. We thought it was nothing maybe a bad mosquito bite and continued to work but then it hurt and got worse. We looked at it, a nanay saw it and said put chili leaves on it so we did and saw it was like a pimple and so we tried to pop it, that is when it gets worse. then it starts to ooze blood and puss for the next couple of days, and my anak can hardly walk, a nanay tells us that is normal. Then it got really pussy and white and purple and then we went to Cauayan mission home. We went to the hospital. Come to find out it was a boil that got really infected. They laid her down on a table and cut it out, without numbing it (MY ANAK IS SUPER TOUGH! SHE HARDLY CRIED!)   Cleaned it and then shove gaze in it. The next day they clean out the wound again and tell me that I have to do that for the next two weeks until it heals and so it doesn't get infected again. It also can't get wet. Then we got to ride in a car with the AP's all the way home. 

My anak has a hole in her thigh. It looks like a bullet wound! I have to take a syringe (like the one that we used to feed peg and al when they were sick.) and spray it with Peroxide and sodium chloride and wipe it out with gaze then put betadine over it. Then put gaze over it every day in the morning. Then we work until the pain meds wear off then we go home and plan and eat, rest and read and talk. I think that Heavenly Father is blessing me with strength to clean out my anak's wound because even though it is something that I wouldn't do voluntarily. I know that my anak (kid in tagalog) needs me to do it. I just keep thinking of how cool of scar she will have to show off, instead of thinking "oh man my finger is inside her leg." 

What a blessing it is that we have two weeks and then transfers.  I am most likely to leave so it needs to be healed so she can take over the area with a new companion.  

it was nice to stay in the mission home (air con, American food, and a celestial bathroom with hot water, and a washing machine and dryer), and it was good that we got the boil cut out before it could infect her bones or she got another one. Also I got to see my nanay (here on the mission) sister Diola. At the mission home she is an sister training leader in Cayauan zone, so they dropped by. It was fun. Also we found out that 3 weeks bfore we go home we have to get our picture taken and finger prints taken for our visa. They did that like 5 cycles back but the company that did it is not recognized by the government anymore. but that is ok we get a day in Manilla before we go home. 

Visited a blind dude that plays the organ, piano, Spanish guitar, like a John Denver like guitar songs, and can sing in English and Tagalog and improv and was the first to get baptized here in this town. He has the town memorized so he just walks around, it is just amazing! He is now less active because they don't have a Braille book of Mormon in Tagalog, but a different religion had a bible in Tagalog Braille so he goes to them. He is so sweet and makes up songs about the missionaries and about families being forever. We talked to him about his promise to God and how he needs to keep that promise by taking the sacrament every Sunday because when others make promises to him and don't keep it it makes him disappointed. Just like Heavenly Father is when you don't take the sacrament. 

For pday, we had an activity with our branch missionaries at the river. We didn't swim but we did get splashed thanks to our branch missionaries. (don't worry, we plastic wrapped sister pavino's leg) 

It was cold!

Echage branch!

We saw Sister Diola in the mission home