May 28, 2015

Some rest at least.  We were expecting to meet Edgardo and go with him up the steep hill to Natavidad’s house to carry her down in a chair.  We were also scheduled to arrive there at 4:45 am.  We got a call from Edgardo at 8 Wen. night that we did not need to be there until 7:45.  Wow.   When we arrived, Natividad and her daughter, Mirnda had already somehow made it down the hill and were waiting for us beside the road so we got off to a quick start.  This time the appointment was in Sonsonate and we got there about 8:45.  We saw an emergency entrance to the hospital so we parked near it and got out.  But each door we went to they said where we needed to go was further.  By the time we got to the correct place we had walked pretty far and I felt really bad for Natividad because walking is so hard for her and we could have stopped in front of the door if we had known where we were going.  They only let Natividad and Mirdna in and Edgardo, Charlotte and I set off to find (you guessed it) Selectos.  We saw a Dollar City on the way and went in and got some things.  Then on to Selectos.  We got several items we had a hard time finding elsewhere.  Charlotte got all of the Campbell’s chicken soups.  Then we headed back to the hospital and found Mirdna walking on the street looking for us.  We picked her up and went back to the entrance where her mother was sitting and waiting for us.  Fortunately they had only been out about 15 minutes so the timing was almost perfect.  When we got back we did carry her up the hill because we knew she could not walk up.  By the time we reached her house Edgardo and I were exhausted and wet with sweat but at least we made it ok and she was in much better condition than the last time.  Charlotte and I got home about noon.  We had not had any idea how long the trip to the doctor would take (from 4 am to 6pm last time) so we had not made any other plans for the day and we were really exhausted from the campaign so we both rested about an hour and then got up and had lunch and worked around the house some for the afternoon.  Then we watched a movie on Netflix for the first time in a couple of months.  Thankful for some rest so we can go again Friday.

Close up of baby birds....will be gone soon