Still Disconnected

It's a dramatic saga. We still don't have internet in the house. It has been a LONG time, or so it seems. We are completely addicted to it and it is HORRIBLE to not have it. We are at an internet cafe in town again. It seems to have very bizarre hours, though, and we were just happy to find it open.

With any luck, the phone company will send someone out tomorrow. We have very little hope that anything will actually be fixed tomorrow, since getting anything DONE seems to require several trips here in Guatemala. Pray that we're wrong.

We were in Nueva Santa Catarina this morning. Apparently, word has gotten out that a doctor comes once a month. The entire world was standing outside. We saw around 50 patients, which in that place is a lot. Translation goes quite slowly and it seems like every little thing takes a very long time to explain.

Then we had to drive back to Chichicastenango and check on one of Heidi's patients there. She operated on this woman last week to remove a molar pregnancy and found that the woman's uterus was just plain rotten. It came out, too. The bad news was that a chest film discovered that the mole had turned into cancer and spread. The woman now has cancerous lesions in her lungs. And today in the hospital, she's turning yellow. So, some more tests were ordered, and Heidi will probably go into the hospital tomorrow to check on her, even though it's her one day off for the week. So it goes.

In other news, please pray for Leslie and Rachel Ficker to have a safe trip to the US to go to Hannah's graduation and to bring her back to Guatemala for a month or so.

Also, there was a bit of vigilante justice that went down in San Andres last week during the week that left one drug dealer/murderer dead and two more beat up pretty bad. The rumor is that there will be more this Wednesday. While vigilante justice might seem needed sometimes, it would be better if the town didn't just erupt into full-scale anarchy. Please pray for peace there.

Well, that's it for today. Our time here is running out (at the internet cafe). Maybe we'll write from home tomorrow.... or not....