Coke-a-cola girl

 

Yeah!  The little girl that got hit on the head with a pop bottle was sent home! 

She was just playing with another patient’s walker, she was walking fine with just a little weakness on her right side.  A true miracle!

Busy Saturday in the ER

Saturday was one patient after another 5 after another 5!  Finally about 3 in the afternoon, the ER exploded with a bus full of intoxicated people who had swerved off the side of a one lane bridge to the river below to avoid hitting another car.  If you have seen our highways, then you know how scary that is! 

 

After a couple hours, many doctors, many many nurses and aids, everyone was taken care of and treated.  Just another day in paradise!

Litter bugs?

 

 

In PNG if someone is putting trash where it doesn’t belong…this is what you do.  Pick up the trash, hang it on a stick.  This let’s everyone know you don’t appreciate the trash and to stop it.  I am wondering if this would work in other countries as well?

Playing with beetles

Last week Olivia and a friend found some beetles near the old hospital, they made a house for them with beds and blankets out of various things.

   Notice these are big, yucky bugs!  Gross!  I would not be playing with them!  It was all fun and great until Olivia found one that wasn’t dead and it gave her finger a good pinch!

Coca-cola is bad for you

When I went in to surgery on Tuesday, there was a little 9 year old girl

who had been hit on the head by her brother with a plastic 500ml of coke.  It caused a depressed skull fracture.     

She had weakness on the right side before surgery and I checked on her today, and her right side is still weak.  Please pray for her recovery. 

Bat anyone?

 

Some of the males on station were going to the bat cave on Sat. morning.  Allison asked them to bring her back a bat…  …so she could eat it! She got it down, but it did take quite a bit of chewing.  She said it was horrible.  A person doesn’t eat the wings or the head, but you can pose with the bat head in your mouth.

Ducky Birthday

Olivia had a lot of fun at her birthday party!

   

Breakfast in bed for the 5 year old!

A tradition at our house is Breakfast in Bed for your birthday.  Olivia said she wanted “grilled cheese, without the cheese”  for her breakfast.  Can you guess what that is?

Well, Liv woke up before her breakfast was ready, so she waited in bed, singing songs to her bears. Finally, the “french toast” was ready and so was the birthday girl~! 

The first present of the day was 2 outfits from Grammer and Papa and a cake!

Walk to the market

 

Olivia has developed a taste for PNG “hot dogs” (thanks to my dad), so when we walk, she wants to buy one.  They have a potential of being clean and not making a person sick… So, when we walked with our friends, the Kumors, Olivia bought one like normal and then Caleb wanted one too.  He did a great job of buying it all by himself and they enjoyed the little sausage.

Then we went across the street to get an ice cream, 

walked through the second hand clothes, got some produce and headed home.  It was a nice outing.

Learning to give grace

 

On our trip home, before our first flight, I had the girls hold out their empty hands.  I then filled the hands up with grace.  I told them that grace is undeserved loving actions. We knew that there would be times when we didn’t feel loving and didn’t want to be loving along the journey, but we could remember that I had given them extra grace so that they could share it with our family.

 

This seemed to work.  I also would give “refills of grace” when attitudes and emotions were getting a little hot.

I decided to continue this behavior modification at home.  A friend had drawn pictures of the girls (aren’t they good?) and I printed off some grace and stop pictures with names on the front and magnets on the back. 

 

So, if Allison shows Olivia grace and lets her keep blowing the whistle in the house without asking her to stop, Allie would put a grace picture from her bag on Livy’s photo.  Or is Emma is driving Liv crazy and Olivia wants her to stop, then Liv can choose if she wants to ask her to “stop” or wants to “give grace.”

It is not a bad thing to ask someone to stop, but you are only allowed 6 stops per day per person.  You do have unlimited grace magnets to give to your sisters.

This hasn’t stopped all of the little bickering at our house, but it has cut it back some and we are all learning what grace means!

Continued Ron Don

 

You will have to carefully choose your restroom.

    I am so happy to be a Mom!

More pictures of Mother’s Day

 

Took a long walk through the rain forest to an orchid garden, but it was locked!

     

And Olivia met a friend!  Notice Scott is missing from the pictures?  He is in the capitol city going to meetings. Actually on Sunday, he was scuba diving, but the purpose of being in Moresby was the meetings.

Mother’s Day

 

    

A bunch of us traveled up to Ron Don Ridge Hotel to celebrate Mother’s Day.  It was a great lunch and fun relaxing time (Mom- the fish was breaded and tasteless).  It was a great little get away!

Hand surgery pictures- do I need to say that there is blood?

 

I enjoy going to surgery so much.  Em was sick and I wasn’t going to go, but then she was feeling better.  A friend visiting our station wanted to come and watch surgery as well.  She took the pictures, so many times I take surgery for granted and don’t see the life changing effects.

So, let’s call him Paul, had a job to keep people from stealing coffee from a garden.  Men came to steal the coffee, Paul tried to stop them, and Paul got a broken ulna and 5 severed tendons. Dr Jim opens the wound, finds the tendons (10 pieces) fixes the bone with K-wire (first picture)

Attaches all of the tendons back where they go, and now, Paul can resume his coffee guarding duties.