Ana went into labor yesterday afternoon, went to the hospital yesterday evening and at 8:50am this morning, we welcomed as yet unnamed baby boy into the world! They are going between the two names Fabricio Valentino and Jose Valentino. Shura, Keri and I all like Fabricio better than Jose but I guess Jose is the saint of the month of March. So we shall see. Valentino was Celestino´s father´s name. He is huge! He was 4 days overdue and it looks like he is already a week old. He weighed 3.5 kilos and was 52 centimeters long. I will let you convert that to pounds and inches! Both mama and baby are doing well. They will be coming home tomorrow. When we went to visit, he was all wrapped up in one of the blankets we gave as a present and he just looked adorable!!
I´ve been busy these last few days. I was sick all day on Monday with major stomach problems, but I feel much better by today. I am at least able to eat now so that is good. We went out to the Chillca clinic today to scope out there needs and how many volunteers they would like. It is a really nice clinic. It was built in 2005 and is staffed by 2 nurses and 2 techs. I was extremely impressed with their epidemiology data. They do surveillance, have a map of houses that have people infected with specific diseases and perform weekly tests on the mosquito population to make sure they are not infected with disease. Very impressive for such a small clinic.
Yesterday, I started my Quechua lessons. I can now say all the salutations in Quechua that I could ever imagine. It is a very pretty language actually. I have class tomorrow night and Friday night and then will have to just study while I travel for 3 weeks before returning to resume my studies.
We really need to buckle down and get some work done these next few days as once Keri and I leave on Sunday, that will be the last time Keri, Ben and I are all together to plan the Awamaki Health stuff. Ben is almost done with the website.
Okay, I´ve got to go to dinner now. I´m hanging out with some locals this evening. I wish this place had a movie theatre or bowling alley. I have no idea what we will do other than walk around the plaza and maybe get a drink somewhere. Who knows!
Tapananchiskama!!! (Quecha for until our next meeting!)
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