Another wedding...

   Last Sunday was Isaac and Heather's wedding. We went down on Saturday morning because we had a few things to do in Port. It seemed very strange that the machine was so empty. Trevor and Mirlene went down on the moto and Cam is still in Wisconsin. There were still seven of us but it felt like we were popcorn bouncing around in a popper because there was so much extra room. Saturday evening we went to see where Isaac and Heather are going to live then went to the family supper. They are living in town but where we ate was only a couple of blocks away and was like almost like a park. Big trees with benches set around. It was very pretty and only a little warm.
    The wedding was scheduled to start at 10:00. It started about 10:35. Some of the ushers didn't know for sure who all was family so led several of us "white" girls to the front bench. We sat there for a few minutes then opted to slip out the side door and go sit in the balcony. Not long after that Heather's brothers and sisters took those seats. There wasn't quite enough room for Isaac's little brother and two of Heather's nephews to sit there too so they gladly sat on the steps to the rost-room (?sp) facing the congregation. I thought it was pretty cute when partway through the service they noticed someone had a water jug and they took turns tipping it way up and drinking until it was fiinished. It was a warm day and the church was full. They didn't have quite enough chairs to seat everyone but I don't know how many people were actually present.  I was very thankful when the breeze came through the windows... Sometimes it brought wafts from the neighbors' houses where they were cooking lunch... And it seemed like breakfast had been a long time ago. The service lasted three hours then the family and close friends went to another place for the reception.  The family had had meals catered at the church for everyone else. The reception was held in an air conditioned building which felt wonderful! I guess we weren't getting out of there quite on time so all at once the air conditioner was turned off. Then a little later the music was turned wayyy up. We did catch the hint at that and got out. We were heading back to the place where we had spent night to change clothes before heading back up the mountain. We were almost there when we were informed that the road up ahead was closed due to a protest. That morning someone had been shot and the people were upset. We got to the house but knew we couldn't get through so I had a nice nap while we were waiting. About six o'clock Keith got the word that the road was open so we headed up. Got home a
little after nine then quickly made some cheese sandwiches for supper.
    The clinic has been busy lately. Fridays are usually short days but last Friday we went back to the clinic in the late afternoon  for a lady who was in labor with her first child. Probably an hour later we had another lady come in who was also in labor with her first child. So we had two ladies taking turns hollering. They were at about the same stage of labor so Keith called the other nurse who works there to come also. I was glad because they each had an IV go bad and each had some difficulties. The first one had her baby girl but then the placenta wouldn't come. We gave an injection but still no results. Meanwhile the other lady was getting really close. After 40 minutes we knew something had to be done so... The other nurse didn't want to be the one to do anything there so she went and delivered the other baby while I put to use the technique I had observed and almost fainted over.  I had to reach up in there and get the placenta out. It wasn't so bad and I was finished in a few minutes without even a thought of getting queasy, but then we had a bleeding problem. I ended up having to give her another injection for that and finally was able to stitch her up. Was I ever thankful that her baby had started breathing right away so we didn't have to worry about that. The other baby only took a few minutes to breath so wasn't a lot of stress there either.  Needless to say, supper was late that night and I was ready for a shower!
   The other day we had a little boy come in who had the worst case of malnutrition I have seen yet. And he lives only about thirty minutes from us. He had almost doubled his weight in one month, mostly fluid I'm sure. His hands were about an inch thick and his legs and feet were so swollen and cold the skin had burst open and he was just dripping fluid onto the floor. I didn't know if lasik would do any good but didn't think it could make him any worse so I gave him a shot and we gave them food and milk and told them to come back in two days. I didn't know if he would still be alive but he was and had lost two pounds of fluid. I couldn't see much of a difference but according to the scales he was two pounds lighter so I gave him another injection and told them to come back yesterday. They didn't show up yesterday or today so I don't know what the deal is.