From Nancy

Sao de Ka! This is Nancy! This is our third day in the village and we got a lot done! We finished digging the toilet/sewer and set the cement rings and top, which was the actual sewer tank. Some local boys came to help with the digging and thru the course of the digging a mud fight ensued! Abbie, Emily, Peter, Jon and the boys had a ‘bonding’ moment! I’m not sure who started it, but fun was had by all! Jordan, Peter & I finished leveling out the area where the shed had stood and Dan, Jon, Ellie & Rick helped finish putting on the roof of the extension. Val, Julie and Jasmine cleaned up where we had hacked down all the plants and picked up general garbage on the property. We did all this BEFORE lunch! In fact, we were so dirty and smelly we asked to eat outside so we wouldn’t dirty up the house or stink them out! ;~)

Before lunch, Julie let us know that Jessica still wasn’t felling well. She had mentioned having a sore throat earlier and we had tried some things to help but she was definitely worse and in looking at her throat I knew we needed to get her to a doctor. In talking with Somm and Jasmine thought the clinic in Chiang Dao was the best. After lunch, Somm drove Jasmine, Jessica and I went in to Chiang Dao, which was about 45 minutes away. It was and nice clean clinic and professional looking. The receptionist asked for Jessica’s passport to copy her name and then took her blood pressure. Somm waited while the 3 of us went back to see the doctor. Jasmine explained Jessica had had a sore throat for several days. He asked about any cough or nose problems of which we said no. He then asked about a fever and I felt her forehead as any mom would do and said yes!

The doctor then looked into her throat and said, “OH!” It was easy to tell he thought that her throat was very bad. He explained that it was tonsillitis and wrote out a prescription for antibiotics and pain reliever. We stepped out back into the waiting room where Somm was waiting and the girl behind the counter filled the prescription. The total cost for everything was 315 baut, which is about $10! It had taken a total of 10 minutes at the most and we were walking out of the clinic! The pain pills were really helpful and we were able to get both doses of antibiotics into Jessica that day to help her get felling better faster!

When we got back to the village, they were working on the concrete floor of the addition having mixed and poured one batch. It was an interesting prosess where they mix the concrete on the ground and we used buckets to measure amounts of sand, rock and then pour the concrete. We got good at being a bucket brigade! We got about 3/4ths of the floor done and would finish tomorrow before we left.

Lastly, Jon, Dan and Peter all tried flying squirrel at supper and then Somm brought out some fried frogs for people to try! Dan, Jon, Peter, Jordan and Rick were the adventurous ones!

This is an amazing place and I am cherishing my time here wish you were all here with us! In Christ’s love and mine,

Nancy Rasmussen