Different Cultures...

Thanks for your prayers and support everyone!
Sarah is doing much, much better. They have contacted the infectious disease list here in NKY, (because doctors here are so paranoid) but she is up and about and just a little sluggish because of the antibiotics she is on. She's almost back to her old self though. They still do not know what it was that had made her so sick, but through some blood cultures and X Rays, they have ruled out all the worst stuff like T.B, Malaria, Yellow Fever and so on. Sarah has mentioned that it is much different knowing first hand what it is like to not only be very sick in another country, where aid and medical treatment is so limited, but also what it feels like to be so sick and have no idea what it is that is doing this to your body. The worst part for me (Jesse), was knowing that we had been through the T.B. ward at the hospital with no protection, been playing with many kids that may have had HIV or other sicknesses, played with baby goats and monkeys, bit by mosquitoes and had possibly consumed very polluted water, so really, it could have been anything and we still may never know what had caused it.

Oh yeah...I almost forgot...The little boy in front (in the picture above) is named Simon. He was our favorite little boy in our village and he has Malaria. He got really sick while we were there and we were so worried about him, so keep Simon in your prayers as well if you remember. We are still in the midst of trying to get financial support over to our students in Pece, but it is much harder than it seems. It looks as if we may have to go through Invisible Children to get them support, but it is still in the works.

Thanks for all the love and support!
It has meant the world.....

~Jesse