Day seven
First thing this morning Robert, Christiane and I made our way to Copan Green to arrange for another supply of water to be delivered to the hogar. Telma’s nephew (who works with World Vision) will be here visiting tomorrow and we will talk with him about biosand filters that he may be able to help us with.
Jean-Mari's birthday
The afternoon was spent at the hogar where there was a celebration for Jean Marie’s birthday. I brought the girls a notebook with a page each of the medications that there are in the school and included information on what conditions they are used for and duration of treatment etc. I drew Dona Delsy’s attention to the child with the skin infection on and behind his ear. She said that it started out as scabies and then he scratches and it gets to this point. She said that they will put him on an antibiotic but I encouraged them to have him seen by a Dr.
Valentine's day cakes
There was a fun barbeque celebration at our Posada today. The cake was marvelous- a work of art we thought. We all enjoyed it very much.
Telma
This is our landlady Telma. She is a tremendous source of information about the local community and where best to locate whatever we need. She also seems to be able to diagnose most everything I talk to her about including the rashes that I show her if I take pictures of them. She is a fabulous hostess, a keen businesswoman as well as being a terrific mother and organizer. I don’t know what our time in Copan Ruinas would be like without Telma.
We will purchase a supply of soap, baby oil and shampoo . I had a number of small bars of soap that I am bringing up each day but they seem to be used up really rapidly.