Well, there’s another virus making the rounds of our home. Wah duh! Didn’t expect to get sick this much!? Thankfully this virus just makes one feel kind of lousy and have a fever for a night or two. Unfortunately Brynnie is suffering from it at the same time as reacting to her immunizations last week and she seems to have some sort of allergic reaction right now. At least that’s what the doctor thinks. Brynnie is covered in large red welts that are hot to the touch. She woke up with them, poor thing. But inspite of it all, she still has a tremendous amount of energy. The doctor prescribed amoxicillin so hopefully it helps whatever infection she’s fighting. It’s always a hoot to go to the doctor’s clinic here. For minor things and vaccinations I go to this beautiful new hospital but I’m not sure that the pediatrician there is very experienced and I trust a local doctor more (at least right now). When you go to the clinic you just put your name down on a list and wait. Today, I came 15 minutes before the clinic opened and I had to wait 1.5 hours to see the doctor. Ugghh… Not real fun, but we survived. Thankfully my Indonesian is a lot better now and I was able to understand him quite well.
Tomorrow we hope, provided everyone is healthy, to visit one of our helpers, Ibu Tati. It will be interesting to see where and how she lives and to meet her family. It will also be interesting to see how it goes as she insists that the entire family must come.