Hong Kong

We leave today at 4:30pm to go to Hong Kong.  It is a 3.5 hour bus ride, but it is one step closer to home!  Woohoo!  We fly out of Hong Kong on Friday for US soil.  We are ready.  As soon as we land in the US, our sweet little Lyla is an American Citizen.  It happens that we land in Minnesota, so she will be an official US citizen in Minnesota and we will hand over all paperwork to the Customs at the airport.  Paul and I had tears in our eyes at the Oath Ceremony yesterday. 

 

Lyla's antibiotics ran out  for her ear infection and this morning she woke up with a fever and her ear was red from pulling at it all night.  The antibiotics the "clinic" here in China gave us only lasted 4 days.  A lot of their medicine are herbs and although it said "Amoxicillin"  I doubt it even  helped her.  Someone said that it was also available in the drugstore next to the hotel over-the-counter!  We were given these little packets and were told to give her 4/5ths a packet mixed with 50ml of water...WHAT????  I tried to follow the directions, but it was a little difficult to measure out 4/5ths.   Fortunately, we have a doctor travelling with us (his family also adopted) and I asked him what to do. I even suggested we go back to the clinic today to have her looked at again.  He was so kind and said he had brought some antibiotics with him. He asked for Lyla's weight and gave me enough for 5 days!  It was American medicine (azythromicin?) and I didn't have to mix it with water and force her to drink it!  I was so excited.  I am not normally one to just give antibiotics on a whim, but not knowing whether her infection was gone (which I seriously doubt it was) and having to fly on Friday with infected ears is not a combination we want for 14 hours on a plane!  

 

There are several in our group who have mysteriously gotten a stomach bug...throwing up and diarhea...yuck!   The Spitler's son came down with it last night.  We are praying it doesn't hit our family.  Praying and Probiotics have helped so far.   There is a nurse travelling with the group who brought anti-nausea medicine in pill form and shots and she has been "visiting the sick" with her medicine...

 

God is great to have provided medical care to our group!!!

 

Please keep praying.  We understand now why people kiss the ground when they land on American soil...Charlotte airport will be a welcome sight!