Magalie Day Three

Magalie is out of intensive care and safely in her new hospital room. She is still pretty miserable, but is looking better each day. The docs are saying she may be able to go to our house sometime later this week - Wednesday through Friday. The brace should come off her new nose about Friday.

After the Surgery - Day 2

They got the tubes out this morning and Magalie is waking up. Charlene and I both got to hold her this afternoon. She looks like she got run over by a truck. She will not be able to open her eyes for a day or two yet because of all the surgery around them. They have been greased up, so don't look so good. With all that said, here is a picture.

World Hunger

World Hunger: Twelve Myths by Frances Moore Lappé


My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This one really makes you rethink your ideas about humger. The authors take each of the presumed causes and presumed cures for hunger and show why they are not accurate and will not work. Each chapter in well documented, making it a little harder to read, but easier to believe. Toward the end, it begins to feel like a science fiction novel in the vein of 1984. A little scary in that respect.

They assert that the free trade legislation, agricultural trade laws, and even hunger relief efforts go to support the acquisition of more land by the big international corporations, reducing the land owned by individual families. Even when a smaller country is exporting huge amounts of food products, local people are still starving, because it is the international corporations that are doing the exporting, and sending the money out of the country.

The only solutiions, they say, are rather dramatic. They call for land redistribution, and greater sharing by the big international agricultural giants. They call for a balance between the free market and government regulation, in the interest of everyone having a way to produce enough to eat.

I recommend this one for everyone

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Sunday Morning

Good Morning!

They plan to bring Magalie out of sedation about 7:00 am CST and pull out the breathing tube. We may be busy for awhile after that. It is reported to be a miserable 15 minutes or so, and I am dreading that part. But on the other side will be the delightful little girl we have come to know so well.

I am struck with her awakening on Sunday morning, having been out since Friday. Coming "back to life" while people all around the world gather to celebrate the coming of life to another who was dead. Hallelujah! Praise Jehovah!

Tubes, Terminals, and Staff

I wanted you to see this one:



She remains stable. They have decided to leave the breathing tube in tonight to give her a little more rest and healing time before waking her up. Keep praying.

Saturday Morning - Surgery Day +1

Magalie had a good night. Charlene stayed in the hospital and I went to the House of Compassion about 11:30. She is over there now to clean up. Magalie is still sedated and has a breathing tube in. She will stay sedated until they take out the breathing tube. She also has a feeding tube. It will stay in a little longer. They are not yet sure whether the breathing tube will come out today or tomorrow. It depends on the numbers on the monitor - something about how much oxygen is in her system as I get it. Here are three pix from her arrival in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit last night. As she rounded the corner there were at least six medical professionals hovering over her. Charlene may have better pictures. If so I will post some of them later today. She has her camera with her.

Last report of the Day

They are done! Eleven hours of surgery, fifteen and a half since arriving at the hospital this morning. She is not in the room yet, they are washing her hair, but we should see her soon. We just spoke with the plastic surgeon who has been working on her all day. He described in detail what they have done, said it all went well. We expressed our thanks and he talked about how much they all enjoyed doing this kind of work. God is good and has done an amazing peice of work in bringing all of these people together for this precious little girl, including each of you who have been praying for her. Please keep the prayers going up. Good night.