full and busy and encouraging

Well, so far this week the prayers I asked for have been very much answered: life here has been quite full in a lot of really excellent ways. Down side? I don't have quite the energy I'd like tonight to write a full blog! I have at least one good story to tell, and I do promise to tell it at some point, but if I go to bed in the next few minutes, then I might get over eight hours of sleep tonight, which would kind of be a much-needed miracle. So: tomorrow.

I will share a few pictures, though, which might make this brief update worth it...

Wheelchair antics. This guy had periorbital cellulitis. His legs work fine.

We've actually done a bit of house-cleaning on the pediatrics ward in the last several days, sending enough patients home that I looked around one of the two main rooms in the ward today and wondered where everyone had gone! It's a good thing, though, and has kept the days manageable. Here's one of our little ones, feeling a lot better after being treated for pneumonia.

So glad to be discharged home!

And finally, the weather: it's fluctuated from downpours to a few days at a time without rain. Today after lunch I was sizing up the sky, thinking, "Hm, are we really going to make it a fourth day in a row without rain?" Half an hour later, I saw this out of the nursery windows. So... no. Not really. But there is nothing quite like seeing a storm roll in here, with grays crowding out the blue against a backdrop of all of the rainy-season greens. It's just beautiful.