The last 3 days have been pretty rough for our family. All is well now, so don't worry. But here is the story.
Sunday, Brett started feeling a little funny in the tummy, but didn't think much of it...until about midnight when he woke up feeling more than a bit funny in the tummy. I'll leave out the gory details, as I'm sure you can imagine what it's like to suffer from gastroenteritis. Anyway, he couldn't keep any food, water, or medicine in his system and was getting severely dehydrated. 16 hours later, we finally decided he needed to go to the hospital. Now, as most of you haven't been to Africa, I'm not sure you can imagine what hospitals in rural Africa are like. The fact that we were willing to go means Brett was pretty bad off. But then we had an idea. There's a South African/Ghanian gold mine just outside of town that has a hospital. We knew that it would be significantly better than the town hospital, but getting into the gold mine is difficult. You have to have special permission, and they don't give it out very freely. However, our teammates Carson and Holly are renting a house from a man named Gaston, who is an engineer at the mine. We'd only met him a few times, but we called him up anyway and, being that he is extremely kind, he managed to get us permission to come to the mine. So that we did. We dropped Baylor off to stay with Alicia, another teammate, and went on our way.
When we got there, Brett had a temperature of 101 and his blood pressure was 70/47. The doctor's said he was pretty bad off. Everyone was incredibly nice and knowledgeable. They hooked him up to an iv and tested him to find out what he had. Turned out to be a nasty bacterial infection, probably coming from food or water. Fortunately, it's almost impossible to pass on to other people. Three days and 14 ivs later, Brett feels much better and this morning was released. He's now resting on the couch watching a movie on a not so great copy dvd.
We're really glad to be all back together and mostly healthy. Praise God for taking care of us!
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that sounds so miserable! glad he's feeling better and that gaston could help.
ReplyDeletewow chrisrie that sounds rough. this also explains the no email response lol..as for the crappy dvd quality this is because every dvd yall own is from china and pirated lol
ReplyDeleteI am so thankful Brett is better. I praise God for the relationship that opened the door for him to get good medical care. We praise our Father for his continued provisions.
ReplyDeletewe are always praying for you guys - we'll lift you up even more - love ya'll - give a kiss to that sweet girl of yours!
ReplyDeleteso glad Brett is better! and very very glad that you and Baylor have stayed well!!
ReplyDeletePraise God that you were able to get into the hospital. May Brett recover quickly.
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