Hello everyone... sorry for not updating recently. I tried to one time and I wrote this whole long entry about the coup and then when I went to post it my internet went out and I lost it all-- maybe it wasn't meant to be.
So yesterday I had a big eye opener here. As most of you I have been working with the support group for people living with HIV/ Aids. This past week we had a workshop on income generation and one of my support group members came from a surrounding community. She has been really sick lately but was feeling better enough to come to the workshop. On the last day of the workshop she started getting sick again and sent for me to get her dinner and bring it to her room. When I got there she was burning up 102 degree fever, chills, shortness of breath-- i was really worried. I told the peace corps staff that were incharge that she was in bad shape and we ended up taking her to the hospital where she was admitted. It was really upsetting for me because I have watched her deteriorate over the last 6 months and she is just sooooo skinny now. Now the doctors are talking about how they want to do a cat scan on her brain because she has severe headaches all the time, in addition to chronic diahrrea. The test itself is 3500 lempira.... basically a month's salary for her and her husband so there is no way she can afford it. Thank god we have the support group fund and the Manta business because with that money we are able to pay for the test, but depending on what comes from this test-- who knows what the costs will be.
It is just so difficult sometimes because I work with these people every month and for the most part they are in good health (we have been lucky) so it is easy to forget that they really are sick...until something like this happens and is a quick reminder that these people really do have a serious illness and being sick is unfortunately something they have to deal with way more than the average person.
Sorry this isn't a cheery update...maybe next time I will have a little more uplifting news.
-Kristina
Disclaimer
The contents of this website are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the US government or Peace Corps
About Me
Countdowns
- Months in Honduras: 22
- Sickness: 8
- Baleadas eaten in SRC: stopped counting..somewhere around 150
- Favorite Tele Novelas: Victoria y Sin Senos No Hay Paraiso
Books I have read in Honduras!
- Dear John
- James and the Giant Peach
- Million little pieces
- Hope in Hell
- El Alquimista
- My Best Friend's Girl
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
- Tuesday's with Morrie
- Lovely Bones
- The Five People you Meet in Heaven
- Eat, Pray, Love
- Love in the Time of Cholera
- The Scandelous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc
- The Kite Runner
- 3 cups of Tea
Important Dates
- Sept 9th- THE MOST IMPORTANT DAY OF THE YEAR
- December 1-- World AIDS day!
- December 2009- Parents Do Honduras.. take 2
- May 1st 2010- Homeward bound
2 comments:
Hope she's doing better Kristina and that the CAT scan happened as hoped.
Hey Sis, I hope your support group member is doing OK. Give her my get well wishes. I hope ou are doing well yourself. I missed reading your postings. Do you have any new pictures you can post. Talk to you late. Love you!!!! Big Sis.
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