IN THE STATES... @ 01 May 2009

Sick, sick, sick. That is how I feel right now! Something triggered my alergies while I was in Nairobi and it has gotten worse...much worse. I left Kenya Wednesday night to spend the summer in the States. On the flight to London...my never too far away friend...amoeba...revisited my intestines. It made for very LONG flights. But I am back in Florida and trying to recover. And for you worry-warts out there...NO, I do not have the feared swine flu. Hopper is doing very well. He is responding to the weekly injection for his hepititus C and says he is feeling stronger each week. He will be recovering over the next couple of months. Please keep him and his family in prayer. Haley Compean (the high school senior I wrote about in my last post) got some very good news. The doctors have looked again at her MRI results and hormone levels and have decided that her tumor (while growing) is not growing at the rate first feared. This is great news! Haley will be able to stay in Kenya long enough to graduate with her class and schedule her surgery after she has returned to the States. Much love, Ekiru