The hospital staff are in emotional turmoil not knowing where to go or what to do re: jobs. They are only seeing "emergencies" but a bus accident in Baitadi occurred today and all the staff were called in to handle it, then at the last minute all patients were diverted to the Gov district hospital here!
This week so many are confronted with moving... all hospital property has to be vacated by May 14th so the scramble for alternate living spaces and packing boxes seems to have consumed the majority of staff.
Just had a didi/ bhini ( women's) meeting here at my flat tonight. 8 ladies came to sing and pray and discuss the future and the ladies came up with the idea for a momo shop! ( momos are Tibetan steamed dumplings)
I am encouraging them to brainstorm for other options as well as only a couple were interested in actually doing it. At least we gave them permission to do some creative thinking!
Keep praying for us!
Almost ready to pour the cement roof.. Brick walls will be complete tomorrow and have to setup for a few days till dry, before they pour the beams and roof. We have been scrambling to collect enout wood beams and bamboo poles to hold it up. Also ordered a tipper truck of crushed gravel today and 2 more truck loads of 2 different kinds of sand!
Tomorrow is a holiday..."labor day" does this mean my Mistris ( workman) will not show?
To be seen!
Today the WYAM team showed up to help and dug out a huge amount of dirt from the back mountainside to back fill behind the retaining wall for level one and prepare the level surface for the cement roof that will extend 12 feet beyond the roof of level one. We will also build another 9 foot high retaining wall against the mountainside for level 2. It is imperative to complete this before the monsoons in a month or so to try to keep more landslides from happening! The team made huge progress and I am sooooooo grateful for their help. What a blessing! We did break a shovel and a pick ax handle in the process today!
Tomorrow they will assist us in painting the other porch room of the bakery. Such fun to have energetic youth with positive attitudes and willing hearts to share the burden here!
Pray for the one Korean girl on the team that fell down in the 12 inch crack between the wall and the side of the mountain and scraped her elbow up good! She was a very good sport and let me clean it up with soap and water and smear neosporin and a bandaid but it might smart tonight! Pray she can sleep.
The Sweedish Drs have left and the US family of 3 from N Mexico have replaced them.
I have played tour guide with trips to Dumara/ Pokara and the local bazaar and have been designated as their personal shopping assistant. I've been keeping them busy and entertained as they had high expectations of being able to work productively in the now closed hospital! That ain't happenening so we are trying to keep them occupied and busy. I tried to get them just to trash their expectations but some are not so good at doing that on command. So I am keeping busy keeping them busy? hummmm what is wrong with this picture? but like I said, the hospital staff are mostly all preoccupied with their own business!
Diane is now on antibiotics... coughed mosty of last night but says she felt some better today. She is a Master gardener and planted some flower seeds we brought,from the US, today in the bakery garden... I think it did her soul good! She smiled a lot more today!
Well I am beat... possibly have a little residual heat stroke from yesterday's long hike in the sun/ heat! Forgot the sunscreen on my arms and burnt like a lobster! Dehydration got the best of me though I worked on prevention... truly I did!
Today we had no water which complicated things! We got a little tonight though! We went down to the guest house and begged showers there which was a true blessing!
Well the 20 dogs in the village seem to be winding up now... six sleep all day on my 2 foot wide balcony and don't even move if you kick them to try to get around them. We keep trying to wake them during the day so they might sleep at night! But it is a dog's day around here and we are likely not going to change them in the remaining 4 weeks we are here! I hear a chicken too... not a good sound for 11 pm... hope it is not some dogs dinner! I hear a whole mess of them (dogs that is!) running and panting up the hill alternating with the barking! Oh JOY!
SO will tuck myself in for the night and chat at you later!
Keep those prayers acomin'! They are our backbone!
Dawn Didi
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| What a blessing this place has been to so many throughout the years. |
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| Just acouple of the staff that are now trying to figure out what to do next |
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| Many families rely on the care they receive from the staff and the many volunteers that serve that work here everyday |
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| This little one will miss this place |
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| Equipment like this is vanishing |
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