Update on Jeanette

I just wanted to update everyone real quick. Jeanetter does NOT have AIDS. Which is wonderful news, but she does have a broken leg!! That’s why she was crying so much when anyone touched her leg/foot!! Apparently it was broken before she got here and they fixed it "traditionally"
whatever that means. Then something happened a few weeks after she
was here (we have no idea what) that re-broke it or something. We don't
really know. We took her to the hospital about an hour north of here and
had it x-rayed. It’s TOTALLY broken - all the way through. The doctor
reset it (that was horrible to hear!) and then put it in this splint
thing and said she should be fine in three weeks because babies’ bones
heal quickly.
That was Friday. Since then she hasn't really been in the best of moods
as you can imagine. She's terribly uncomfortable and it’s hard to hold
her with her leg sticking out like that. We are taking turns holding her
and getting her out of her crib; otherwise she will just lay in bed all
day and get bed sores which would obviously be no good at all.
On a different note, we had about ten hours of straight rain the night
before last (Saturday night) which is great for the crops but now it’s
really cold. I'm sure that you all think that it’s relative; but
honestly it was like 65 degrees in the house last night. That’s cold....
We went to a wedding on Saturday for one of our girls. She had lived in
the orphanage for a long time. She married well, into a family with a lot
of money, to an educated man and she’s educated (so we know she will be
well taken care of). It was a lot of fun to be apart of. Weddings here
aren't all that much different from weddings at home. And we got to eat
good food and drink soda at the reception!!! There were a couple hundred
people there and they all got soda...which is ridiculously expensive.
For here I mean