Were here at St. Victoria’s Hospital looking after Heartlyn and Chris John. They are 2 of the 4 that were surrendered by their parents to the Children’s Home this week. Heartlyn has been here for 4 days and Chris John was just admitted last night. The hospitals are different here. There has to be someone with the kids all the time and we have to go to the pharmacy and pick up all the medicine that the nurses administer, they don’t have anything here. Thank goodness that we are in private room with a wall unit for the AC but the rest of the hospital doesn’t have AC. Although they do bring us food for breakfast, lunch and dinner, it’s not very tasty and they don’t bring silverware so we have to eat it with our hands. Oh, and they don’t provide toilet paper…. You have to bring your own. How weird it that!?!?
We are taking 12 hour shifts, 2 people each shift. Today Laura and I are doing the day shift 7:30am to 8:30pm.
Heartlyn is 2 months
and
Chris John is 10 months,
although he looks more like he’s only 4 months old.
They are so sweet but exhausting. I can’t imagine how the staff at the children’s home, or moms in general, do this day in and day out. When we finally get one to sleep the other one wakes up, then when we get her back to sleep the other one wakes up.
I am starting to fall in love with this city. They people are so nice and friendly. The Philippines is very family oriented and the neighborhood we live in is very community oriented. It’s a nice change from the US where we stick to ourselves and our friends. By the way…. I miss all of my friends and family.
