The Current Situation

Hey there! It has been a very busy week, and I have homework to do; so brief recap :)

So I wrote on the last post that I had gotten sick; but was getting better... Yeah. On Friday night I started to feel worse, and had a fever and all that fun stuff, so we went to the hospital again. After about 4 hours, it was decided that I had pneumonia, and that the best way to treat it would be 3 rounds of IV Antibiotics. So I got three IV's and on the last day went to see a Pulmonologist. When we got in his office, he told us that I for sure didn't have pneumonia, and that I never needed IV's. Argh. Turns out it was some kind of Bronchitis, that was particularly annoying. So I finished up the oral antibiotics today, and am feeling much much better. Still cough a lot, but I can run up to the 5th floor again without falling over. 

So in other news; the floods are getting worse, and we're heading out of dodge. They are sending us up North with one of the APSAI teams, which means we get to go to Burma, and Chaing Rai, and Chaing Mai again. If all goes well here while we're going to be back in about a week and a half. If the flooding here does get bad, or food is impossible to get here or anything, we'll just stay up north until it gets better, or until its time to go home. Right now, almost all of the public transportation is shut down- no buses, very few taxis, and the ones that are running are rather spendy. 

I have mixed emotions about the trip. I really really don't want to leave Bangkok, cause I love it sooooo much. I've only been to Bangkok City Church once in the past month cause of stuff that's come up, and we haven't had Thai very often for the same reason. We haven't been able to teach in our regular areas cause of being in Cambodia, and flooding issues, and illnesses, so I miss all those little buggers. But at the same time, this is a cool opportunity to go see more of Thailand, and we get another stamp in our passport, which is always fun. 

Oh well. Please Please please please be praying for Thailand. This flood is going to effect life here for months to come- people are losing their lives, their houses, their possessions, their jobs... it's going to take a while to recover from this. Please be praying for the missionaries here to have wisdom with what to do and how to help, and how to share the love of God while these people are looking for answers to why theirs gods didn't save them. 

Thanks!