Nov 2,2008

greetings to all. haven't been blogging last few days due to a case of dehydration I am still recovering from. I had lost quite a bit of weight the first 2 months here and of course I KNEW it was mostly water weight, but why be concerned? I had been feeling poorly for a couple of weeks and this week it became nausea, dizziness, weakness, etc. after inhaling salt and water for a few days, I am feeling better. I don't use salt hardly at all, and as I would sweat I was losing it w/o replacing it, therefore losing fluids. Not fun. so I take salt daily now, and drink LOTS of water, to the point I really can hardly stand it. Jessica on the other hand is recovering from dengue fever. Rash, sore throat, malaise, recurring fever though in this case it has been pretty mild for what it could have been so we are all grateful for that.

last night it rained hard for a couple of hours, hadn't had that kind of rain since the hurricane's ended. It actually has been rather nice the last few mornings and evenings, things are starting to cool some here. days are still warm, but it certainly makes it easier to sleep which is a real blessing. we now have piped in water!!!!! amazing how those things happen here. Gary bough the plastic pipe, Marco and helpers from school dug a trench thru the street to the other side of the road where the bigger feed pipe is, and a guy from the city comes out and connects it. you shovel dirt over the pipe and voila! water in the house! now, it's kind of yucky water, but it is for dishes, showering, etc. it is clear, it just has a very mineral taste to it and you really don't want to drink it anyway. we still drink bottled water. but it is much cheaper than bringing in a tanker truck to fill the cisterns. and fairly soon, we may have electricity regularly!! seems if you are willing to buy your own transformer (and a group locally is setting this up for the local 8 houses) you can get power pretty much whenever the generators are running instead of when they decide to give it to your area. Living high in Haiti! :) I pray all is well with everyone home, everyone take care, will post more later. bye for now.....