Our neighbor Jelly is sick with dengue and a cold. Her treatment is free because she is Dominican. Planks were heading over to see her and invited me to go. I had been to the hospital before to visit sick students. I think I wrote about dried blood being on the waiting room floor. This time there was no blood. That's a plus.
There is a metal door that goes into the hospital that has a padlock. It was unlocked and a guard man in regular clothes came back and said the kids couldn't go to the back. So, the Planks and Jelly's family went to the back as I waited with the little ones. Jelly's mom came out to relieve me after a few minutes and she pointed to where I should go to find her room. No one cares who you are or where you are going, I don't really know why they have a guardman. I went searching and all the room doors are completely open, so I poked my head in doors looking. She was in a small room with a total of 5 beds. There were 2 other patients in there at the time. All the beds had sheets of different patterns and light blankets of different patterns/fabrics. I'm sure all of them are just donated to the hospital from people. There were 3 IVs for the patients set up. Two stands were the same and one was different. All had paint chipped off the bottom and rust. The nightstands had rust on them too. I could see into the bathroom and it didn't have a toilet seat. Jelly's roommate has a parasite. It worries me that she has dengue, and then is using that girl's toilet knowing she has a parasite. I saw the girl bring toilet paper with her into the bathroom. It made me wonder if the hospital stocks the toilet paper. I wouldn't be shocked if you have to supply your own. The beds were metal and had a thin blue cushion covering it.
Ants crawled up the dirty walls in many different lines. Mold covered parts of the ceiling as paint had flaked off already. I moved off Jelly's bed because a new visitor came in, and so I sat on an empty bed. Ants were crawling on me and I had to flick them off.
One of our little girls from Barrio Balls was looking for her friend. Her name is Ambar. She poked her head in our room and I saw Kathy's eyes get wide. I looked over in excitement. Ambar was all smiles, too! Love those stinkin kids!! She stayed to talk for a minute.
At one point there were about 15 people in the room. I kept thinking this totally sucks for the one patient that doesn't have any visitors and maybe wants us all to leave! She has no choice but hear us cut up and talk. We headed out and saw a lady, without gloves on, rolling gauze in a chair. I looked in to the front desk area and a nurse had her feet up on the desk.
We got in the car and Trevor was talking to Luke. I heard him say, "Listen, I want you to know if me or my family ever get sick, DO NOT take us there."
Uh, don't take me there either!
The last two times we skyped our pastors, JJ asked how we were doing health-wise. Both times we said fine. 1st time after getting off with him, we had issues with head-lice that afternoon. This past week I've had bacteria issues, again. STOP asking JJ!! Maybe let Chris ask next time!
There is a metal door that goes into the hospital that has a padlock. It was unlocked and a guard man in regular clothes came back and said the kids couldn't go to the back. So, the Planks and Jelly's family went to the back as I waited with the little ones. Jelly's mom came out to relieve me after a few minutes and she pointed to where I should go to find her room. No one cares who you are or where you are going, I don't really know why they have a guardman. I went searching and all the room doors are completely open, so I poked my head in doors looking. She was in a small room with a total of 5 beds. There were 2 other patients in there at the time. All the beds had sheets of different patterns and light blankets of different patterns/fabrics. I'm sure all of them are just donated to the hospital from people. There were 3 IVs for the patients set up. Two stands were the same and one was different. All had paint chipped off the bottom and rust. The nightstands had rust on them too. I could see into the bathroom and it didn't have a toilet seat. Jelly's roommate has a parasite. It worries me that she has dengue, and then is using that girl's toilet knowing she has a parasite. I saw the girl bring toilet paper with her into the bathroom. It made me wonder if the hospital stocks the toilet paper. I wouldn't be shocked if you have to supply your own. The beds were metal and had a thin blue cushion covering it.
Ants crawled up the dirty walls in many different lines. Mold covered parts of the ceiling as paint had flaked off already. I moved off Jelly's bed because a new visitor came in, and so I sat on an empty bed. Ants were crawling on me and I had to flick them off.
One of our little girls from Barrio Balls was looking for her friend. Her name is Ambar. She poked her head in our room and I saw Kathy's eyes get wide. I looked over in excitement. Ambar was all smiles, too! Love those stinkin kids!! She stayed to talk for a minute.
At one point there were about 15 people in the room. I kept thinking this totally sucks for the one patient that doesn't have any visitors and maybe wants us all to leave! She has no choice but hear us cut up and talk. We headed out and saw a lady, without gloves on, rolling gauze in a chair. I looked in to the front desk area and a nurse had her feet up on the desk.
We got in the car and Trevor was talking to Luke. I heard him say, "Listen, I want you to know if me or my family ever get sick, DO NOT take us there."
Uh, don't take me there either!
The last two times we skyped our pastors, JJ asked how we were doing health-wise. Both times we said fine. 1st time after getting off with him, we had issues with head-lice that afternoon. This past week I've had bacteria issues, again. STOP asking JJ!! Maybe let Chris ask next time!
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