Wednesday, February 10, 2016

spicy salsa on everything for the Latinos vs already too spicy for that Hermana

When I told this Latino Elder that I wanted a picture of him pouring the hot sauce on his Costco pizza everyone crowded around to get in the act.  They put it on everything from fruit to meat and everything in between.  

In contrast at the other end of the table was a Hermana who ate the pizza plain and immediately because it is so fatty and spicy (and because she had her gall bladder removed at age 14 and because her medication was not working) was in pain.  I was so glad I happened to be standing there talking to her piano playing companion because this gall bladder absent hermana's stomach bloated up in minutes and she literally looked like she was 7 months pregnant.  She is very thin anyway but was in a tremendous amount of pain.  She said,"I have to get to the clinic".  I told her my husband was starting coir practice in 5 minutes and was not at the clinic.  I offered to take her in the golf cart but she couldn't wait and headed out walking.  I caught up with her at the auditorium talking to Dennis and he asked if I would help her to the clinic and he would come over shortly.  He must have gotten another choir director and came right away.  He helped her with a pain pill and the Elders in her district came in to give her a blessing.  The first one they had ever given.  It is so nice they have their little white missionary handbook and oil with them.  After choir practice Dennis came running (literally running) back to the clinic and she was doing a little better (the extreme bloating had started to go down).  She ended up leaving just before the Tuesday night devotional started in a wheel chair and was even able to sing in the choir.  She and her companions have wonderful voices.   

In the devotional one Hermana ran out of the auditorium and her two companions following in close pursuit.  I had come late because I was closing up the clinic after the sick bloated Hermana and sat in the back.  When I saw the three Hermanas run outside I thought I better see if they needed help.  From the stand President Call sent Dennis a text message and told him about the Hermanas.  Dennis was sitting in the middle of the Auditorium where he sometimes leads the choir but read the message and came to see what was going on.  It is always just one thing after another.  The Elder who had his appendices out now has a temperature of 102 and has gastrointestinal problems.  And then there is the other Elder who at a high point weighted 180 and now weights 135.  Dennis sent him in for lab tests.  He didn't loose all that weight here but over the last several months.  He will probably have to go home and have more tests to find out what is causing the weight loss and gastrointestinal problems.

I wonder what it will be like when we have 600 here this summer instead of the 250-300 we have right now.  

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