Happy Summer! While you are all enjoying your longest day of the year, we are experiencing our shortest. Coming from Spokane, with an 8 hour daylight swing between summer and winter, our 37 minutes here isn't saying that much, but it's just enough to notice.
In the last couple months, we have fought one medical challenge after another. On the heels of Frankie's foot infection (which, believe it or not, is still healing - healing takes so much time here!), Logan's legs (nearly always covered in some number of blistered bug bites) exploded in infections. We went through a season of changing around 17 band-aids every morning and night trying to fight the infections.
Next came the lice - yuck! A new experience for us, but not as bad as we first thought it would be. And before we had even finished clearing up the lice, we moved onto the fevers.
In God's providence, Logan's sickness came with a fairly high fever that also cleared out the infections in his legs! The sickness passed through two more kids fairly uneventfully. And then, Jacklyn came down with it.
She was in bed for days trying to get food and water down. This culminated in what we thought was a seizure but now seems more likely to be a vasovagal episode (still the loss of consciousness and muscle jerking, but caused by a sudden drop in blood pressure and heart rate). This is way better than a seizure, but a scary 60 seconds in the moment nonetheless. That same day Frank's fever started and would last almost four days. Both of us eventually received IV fluids which helped turn us around.
It's so hard to be sick and without energy at the same time as one another - kudos to our kids for making it through without parents for several days and for helping out around the house while we were so very sick!
We are still in recovery mode now, building up our energy and trying to pick up the pieces from being out of commission for a whole week collectively. But we are thankful to the Lord that He helped us to make it through, and we didn't have to medevac to a hospital. And we are also very thankful for love and care from our teammates who swept in and washed our dishes, swept our floor, poked our arms to set IVs, and brought some smiles and food for our kids.
In celebration of completing our formal language program, we are going to use this month's video to give you a little taste of what we've been learning. And actually, there's so much we're excited to share, this will be a longer video so we decided to count it as both May and June's updates.
In the last couple months, we have fought one medical challenge after another. On the heels of Frankie's foot infection (which, believe it or not, is still healing - healing takes so much time here!), Logan's legs (nearly always covered in some number of blistered bug bites) exploded in infections. We went through a season of changing around 17 band-aids every morning and night trying to fight the infections.
Next came the lice - yuck! A new experience for us, but not as bad as we first thought it would be. And before we had even finished clearing up the lice, we moved onto the fevers.
In God's providence, Logan's sickness came with a fairly high fever that also cleared out the infections in his legs! The sickness passed through two more kids fairly uneventfully. And then, Jacklyn came down with it.
She was in bed for days trying to get food and water down. This culminated in what we thought was a seizure but now seems more likely to be a vasovagal episode (still the loss of consciousness and muscle jerking, but caused by a sudden drop in blood pressure and heart rate). This is way better than a seizure, but a scary 60 seconds in the moment nonetheless. That same day Frank's fever started and would last almost four days. Both of us eventually received IV fluids which helped turn us around.
It's so hard to be sick and without energy at the same time as one another - kudos to our kids for making it through without parents for several days and for helping out around the house while we were so very sick!
We are still in recovery mode now, building up our energy and trying to pick up the pieces from being out of commission for a whole week collectively. But we are thankful to the Lord that He helped us to make it through, and we didn't have to medevac to a hospital. And we are also very thankful for love and care from our teammates who swept in and washed our dishes, swept our floor, poked our arms to set IVs, and brought some smiles and food for our kids.
In celebration of completing our formal language program, we are going to use this month's video to give you a little taste of what we've been learning. And actually, there's so much we're excited to share, this will be a longer video so we decided to count it as both May and June's updates.
Praise!
Prayer!
- Thankful to have successfully finished our final language check!
- Thankful for the Lord's love and care for our family.
- Thankful for two new families on base! They have both arrived safely and are settling in well.
- Thankful for the Lord carrying us through infections, bugs, and sickness.
Prayer!
- Pray for perseverance and diligence for our kids (and Jacklyn!) as they homeschool through the summer.
- Pray for a heathy summer and reprieve from sickness.
- Pray for the Donckles family who is settled and jumping into language learning.
- Pray for the Miller family who is settling (already knows the language and culture), and is preparing to build a house in the tribe with the Cann family.
- Pray for the details of scheduling a helicopter to sling load building supplies up to the mountains for the Miller house build. Frank has run into several challenges in this process.
- Pray for the English family, who are still stateside, finishing up their final support raising so they can join their teammates, the Donckles, and prepare to start a new church plant together.
- We are thankful for the wisdom of the Lord to give us just what we need each day - pray for us to accept what He puts on our plates with thankfulness and joy.
- Pray that our children would see God for who He truly is, and see themselves rightly. Pray that they would fully understand their desperate need for Him.
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