Visualize this...with picture evidence!

Do you remember having chicken pox?  Of if you're a parent, do you remember your kids having chicken pox?  It's terrible.  You're itchy, grizzly, with high fevers, and just all out miserable.  Oatmeal bathes help in the moment.  Calamine lotion is more of a patch, not a fix.  And there are never enough cuddles to go around.  Well...as of today we have 23 kids in the Baby House with chicken pox currently (several already went through it in the weeks past)...that leaves us with 14 who are running circles around the itchy ones.  There are no couches for them to lay their heads on and watch movies all day.  They don't have a mom each to cuddle them and tell them it will pass.
Instead we have a Baby House...37 1-5 year old living together in one house.  5 tias (or aunts) who look after them.  3 missionaries who are working double time to give enough tlc to just get them by.  And some very tired nurses who are spending their days taking temperatures, drawing up medication, and making sure the sickest are on the mend.  All 37 critters who want attention all the time.  Those who aren't sick are bouncing off the walls because they aren't allowed to leave the Baby House...as not to contaminate the rest of the center.  Those who are sick are laying in cribs and on mats on the floor, wide-eyed and whimpering, looking for compassion.  And on top of all that, until today it has been about 110 degrees out and their fevers have been on average 103.5 (some much higher).  I'm not even sure you can visualize it...just imagine if your 2 children had chicken pox at once and multiply that by 12!  Here's picture evidence (can't even start to do it justice).

We are preparing and giving out this many medications every 4-6 hours...out of control!

 

But I'm surviving!  Keep praying!