We hope everyone back home is enjoying a good Thanksgiving Day holiday with all the good turkey and pie. Thanksgiving is not celebrated here so it's business as usual for all of us. The students at UBI, though have this week off for fall break. So life around the school is a bit quieter right now as many of the students are home with friends and family for the week.
Our past week was fairly quiet. We went with Jay Don and Mary Lee to a cardiac children's hospital where we were served a little lunch with a couple of the doctors there. Doctor Natalia, whom we had met at the Christian conference in Crimea a few weeks ago gave us a tour of the hospital. It was a little shocking as there were several beds in each room and not a single heart monitor in any of them. There was one room that she was very excited to show us as it had all the new equipment that Christians had donated to them. This was a nicer room and it had a treadmill and another machine that you can do some heart testing/monitoring with. It also had one portable defibrillator machine. It was a little shocking to see how little they had for all these children with heart conditions and yet Doctor Natalia and the others were obviously excited by these great new equipment pieces they had recently received. We also learned that this is also a teaching hospital so they have a few research rooms as well but we didn't see them.
On Wednesday we decided to take Jay Don and Mary Lee out for a nice meal as a 'thank you' for all that they have done for us here. We've really appreciated them letting us tag along with them and showing us around the Ukraine and their ministries here. So we went to a nice restaurant that we hadn't been to in a while and we had a great time visiting with them. But at 2:30 in the morning Bruno got out of bed and began a very restless night for the both of us. Bruno had food poisoning!!! I have never seen him so sick. I felt so bad for him, but there really isn't a whole lot you can do for someone that sick. He spent most of Thursday in bed and sleeping. And I went to the school for a bit to cancel some of our plans. We were supposed to have a friend over Thursday evening and Bruno was supposed to be doing the chapel talk on Friday, but his illness made both of those impossible. But by Friday evening he was almost 100% back to normal. I say 'almost' because his stomach obviously shrank through this ordeal because he has been eating far less than normal and far less than I am for 4 days now. I hope he gets his full appetite back soon ... I'm not too fond of out-eating my husband at every meal. :)
Yesterday Bruno preached at church again and I think he is now also scheduled to preach the morning of the 25th right before we catch our flight home. That's right ... two more weeks and we'll be coming back to give many of you a big hug. See ya soon!
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