Hugo is showing some more signs of life today. He was up a little more, although still walking like an 80 year old... His blood test came back showing that his hydration levels had once again gone up so that's really good. I'm sure it will still be a bit before he can even operate at 50%, but things are headed the right way. We sure do appreciate all your prayers at this time. There is still a good chance that as he recovers he will experience depression, moodiness, and trouble sleeping. So please continue to remember him and us in your prayers.
Tonight I got a call that Ibu Ritha had a high fever and was unconscious. Yikes! She'd had a fever on Tuesday already and so I gave her some acetaminophen for it along with the amoxicillan that she was supposed to take for her teeth. Then on Wednesday she had a funny wound on her foot that made her foot sore and she could only walk on her tiptoe. Today she said that her foot felt a bit better and that the fever was down. So she worked a bit and went home. I guess her fever came back and her sister and other relatives wrapped her up in blankets instead of trying to cool her off. So she went unconscious. Our neighbour, whom she also works for, took her to the best hospital (where Marc was born) after bathing her in ice water for a half hour. There they took some blood and put smelling salts under her nose and she woke up. They checked for malaria but said that the test was negative (who knows who is working in the lab on the evening before Good Friday?) and the doctor refused to just give her a quinine shot. So she was sent home and thankfully is awake and wanting to go home to her girls. John, the neighbour (who has lived here for his whole life), feels that she does have malaria and so in the morning we will try and get her some quinine. Hopefully there will be a pharmacy open as it is Good Friday. In the meantime she will take medicine to try to keep the fever down. Please continue to pray for Ritha that she may experience a full recovery and be able to care for her girls.
Oh, and Brynnie's malaria slide was negative. It is possible that when she was really sick a few weeks back that she had a mild case of dengue and that is why she is still not 100% now as it takes a long time to recover...