I haven't blogged in a while, and that's because I have been out of the country! We went to Mexico (properly pronounced meh-he-ko :) to work at Rancho Sordo Mundo. It is a ranch that was created as a school/orphanage for the deaf children of Mexico. The whole experience was amazing! The kids are in the process of getting a language, and their faces come alive when they learn new words. Some of these kids are found on the streets, they don't know their name, or where they are from, or anything for that matter. They have been neglected because no one know hows to communicate with them. When they are brought to the ranch, for the first time in their lives they learn to express emotion, they are communicating with other children who are just like them, and the teachers are able to show them the love of Christ. They have a documentary that was actually just finished and will be released in a month and we Joshua students have special permission to buy it and we can watch it with our friends and family.... so everybody get ready for "Hearing Everett" this Christmas break!!
So you might be wondering how I can blog all of this already, since we aren't scheduled to be back to Hume until later tomorrow? well here's the story...
So Thursday started out with an adventure. Rich took Jenny, Bryan, and myself into Ensenada to run a few errands and take a couple pictures for a slide show to be shown to the rest of the students later that night; for on Friday we were all going into town to watch the Baja 1000 car races. We went to a port in Ensenada where the Black Pearl (yes the actual one from Pirates) is docked. As Bryan and I tried to climb a fence to get a better picture with it I felt like I had pulled one of my lower ab muscles. I didn't think much of it except I was in a little pain the rest of the day. It was later in the afternoon when we got a call to meet some of the group at the hospital in Ensenada because Chris, a fellow student, had fallen off the back of a truck and landed on his head. While in the waiting room, I sneezed... That's when I felt the sharp pains. After a while one of the doctors was friends with Luke, the director of the camp, and he took me in the back room to examine me. Pushing on my stomach, I thought he was going to kill me! He then proceeded to try and describe in broken English what was wrong with me, and wrote me a prescription for some drugs that I had never even heard of, AND he offered me a shot in the butt. It was actually really humorous. He then charged me $30 for the visit (putting it straight into his wallet) and never even signed me in. Oh the glory of shady Mexican hospitals.
Soooo at this point I am in the waiting room and I have taken a vicodin and it was not doing a bit of good. And I don't know what was so funny, but I couldn't stop laughing which hurt my stomach which in turn I would cry, which was funny so I would laugh... I swear I was a crazy person! They decided to take Chris to the states and me with him. We arrived in San Diego at the emergency room about 9:30pm. They hooked me up to a morphine IV while Chris was transferred to another two hospitals. Around 12:30pm they released me finding out I had actually torn my ab muscle. Oh yea and rich took video of me while I was on the morphine IV so that should be fun to watch later... Anywho, Chris was still in the hospital at this point and he had bleeding in between the skull and the brain. They decided to keep him for watch over night and yesterday he actually had a small surgery to relieve the pressure. As far as I know he is stable and doing well, and should be released Monday. But it was a very scary thing with Chris. So if any of you read this this weekend, keep him in your prayers. There is other stuff with his story, but that is the gist of it all. I was dropped off at Rachelle's parents house in San Diego and I am waiting for the rest of the group to come back over and pick me up before we head back up the hill.
I am looking forward to Thanksgiving break and the rest that it brings. I will be home Monday morning for you Clovis people, and the rest of you I will have cell reception until the Sunday after Thanksgiving, so feel free to call me!!! I miss you all dearly!!!
Love,
Mal
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