Jordan update

Yesterday when I tried to write this update the blog site was down. So you are getting day old information.

We got Jordan's test results back and that showed that he did not have Mono, but just your normal average flu. He is doing much better and has gone a full day and a half without a fever.

Joey, however, decided that someone in the Tate family just had to be sick and so he is now down with the same symptoms that Jordan had. He is so excited to be able to stay in his jammies all day. He has a high fever, cough, and watery eyes. Yesterday he took a 3 hour nap. Today his fever is not as high, but we will see what happens later on in the day when fevers normally spike.

Thank you all for your prayers. Jason is doing much better. He still has a cough and is weak, but he is getting better each and every day.

Home again

Jason is home again and doing a lot better. He is still weak because of his low blood pressure and the platelets that he lost. When he left the hospital his platelet level was low, but climbing. He has mandated rest and is required to stay at home until Sunday.

Jordan also seems to be getting better. He actually slept through the night last night. He still is running a slight fever, but it is nothing compared to how he was doing. We are just praying that by this Sunday we will all be back to normal.

Jordan

Jordan is also sick and has much the same symptoms. He was doing better on Saturday, but yesterday he seemed to regress again. When his fever is up he will be laying down and crying because "everything hurts". When his fever is down (when he is on his medicine) he is fine. The only problem is that he can only get his medicine every 8 hours and his fever comes back after about 6 1/2 to 7 hours time.
If he doesn't start making a marked recovery we will have to take him back to the doctor tomorrow and do some tests to make sure he doesn't have something different than what Jason has.
At least we are not bored this summer vacation. :-)

Jason Update

It has been a crazy couple of days. Jason has been in the hospital since Thursday evening. He didn't find out until Saturday morning that he has Mono.

His blood platelet level is what is keeping him in the hospital right now. They found out that he is losing blood platelets late Friday evening. They have continued to fall. Each day the rate of decline is less, but until this problem regulates itself he will not be coming home.

He is also having problems with his blood pressure. He has been on blood pressure medicine for almost a year now and the past month or so has seen much fluctuation in his blood pressure. It has been consistently high (though not dangerously), so the doctor changed his medication. Now it is very very low. Hopefully once he gets out of the hospital it will regulate itself. The doctor thinks that Jason is having this problems because of stress, so we will be talking about ways to reduce his stress when he gets home. It will definitely mean cutting back on some of the ministry areas that he is working on, but we are hoping that with a little effort we can shift some things together so that it will reduce the stress, but not the areas in which we are serving.

Anyway, we are hoping that Jason can come home today.

Jason's sickness

We have been dealing with a lot of sickness lately. Jason finally got his turn on Monday evening. He finally went into the doctor last night. They ran some tests and then put him into the hospital. The test results showed that he had an enlarged spleen. The doctor wasn't sure so she had him stay for observation and more tests.

This morning he had an ultrasound and found out that his spleen and liver are enlarged. They have taken him off of his medicine to make the fever go down so that they can draw blood when his fever is high again. The doctor is unsure at this time if he has Salmonella poisoning or Typhoid Fever. We will find out more information later on today. We plan on visiting him the afternoon and hope to have more information at that time.

He also has a cold on top of all this other stuff. I am glad that they are finding out what the problem is. Please pray that he starts to feel better soon.

Jordan is also sick, but he only has the flu. We are hoping that he gets over that soon as well.

Jordan's sickness and sleepwalking

Jordan has been sick for the past two day. He had a high fever and upset stomach. He was happy as he got to watch tv while laying on the couch all afternoon on Wednesday.

Wednesday night after I had put them to bed, I heard the boy's door open and then close. The light went on and off several times so I decided to investigate. I opened the door and Jordan was standing by the door turning the light off and on. I asked him what he was doing and he told me that he had to go to the bathroom. He had had a little accident so I shooed him toward the bathroom. I then went and got him out new clothes.

As I entered the bathroom I saw that he had gone all over the floor. He was acting a little dazed so I had a hard time not laughing at him. I told him to get undressed and change his clothes. Normally Jordan is very obedient but this time he just stood there looking at me. I repeated it and again he just stood there. So I helped him take off his shirt and hoped that would kick him into motion. I told him again to get his wet clothes off and he just stood there. Finally I said, "Jordan, what did I just say?" He told me that I had just told him to stand up. I figured then that he was not in his right mind.

So I helped him take his pants off and left him his clean clothes to put on. I went to check on his bed to make sure it was clean and dry and it was. When I came back he had put his wet clothes on and then his new dry clothes on after that.

So I undressed him again and put new clean clothes on him and that seemed to wake him up and he was fine. I have never seen Jordan walk in his sleep. I am sure it was his high fever that help to add to his sleepiness.

Thankfully Jordan has fully recovered this morning. Jason is taking him with him to Campamento a town about 2 hours from here. We are maintaining a work there until missionary Daniel Jacobo comes and takes it over. Jordan is so excited to be going. We were all praying that his fever would be gone so he could go today. They are scheduled to leave in about an hour and Jordan is just sitting by the door with his backpack waiting. This is his first time to go overnight with Daddy when he preaches out of town.

Family affairs

Our family is doing good except for the occasional flu and cold that most families get at times. Audrey is dealing with a cold now and is taking this opportunity to stay in bed in her jammies. She is milking her sickness for all it is worth.

I just finished making her new jammies, a dress, and a purse. She loves the jammies. I am probably going to have to force them off of her so I can wash them.

Jordan is a little sad because he has been growing and is having to give some of his favorite clothes to Joey. He is still as skinny as ever so we are having a hard time finding clothes that fit him. When I went home for my brother's wedding I was able to purchase several pairs of jeans for him, but many are still to long for him. As Jordan is very hard on clothes, if I give them to him now then Joey will never get to use them.

Joey is having behavioral issues right now. He doesn't want to clean his messes up. Yesterday, Jason told him to clean his toys up and he told him, "I don't want to, Jordan can do it." You would think he would get tired of getting spanked, but it doesn't seem to affect him.

My pregnancy is going well. I have found out that the myoma can cause problems during pregnancy, namely miscarriage, only during the first trimester. As I am past that I don't have to worry so much. The other problem that it can cause is difficulty during delivery. If it gets absorbed into the uterus then there will be no problems whatsoever, but if not then it could stop contractions or prevent a normal delivery. We will know more about what we are going to do later on this month. Another issue we have is that my doctor is scheduled to be in the states with her kids from December 17th to the 27th of December and I am due the 24th. While I have never actually had a pregnancy go 40 weeks, I am not sure I will have this baby by the 17th either. We will be taking to my doctor at my next appointment to see what are our options. Please pray with us that we will make the right decision.

We are looking for another house to move into and some property to buy. We have not had a lot of luck with either of these things. We found some great property for a great price, but we only have about half of what we need to buy it. We talked to the owners (a group of 6 brothers and sisters) and offered them what we have for half of the property with the provision that we would be offered the other half before someone else had the option to buy it. We would love to buy the whole property, but we just don't have the extra $16,000 that we need to buy all of the property. Please pray with us that we will find the property that God wants us to have and be able to but it.

The Toncontin Saga

Toncontin (the Tegucigalpa airport) has been ordered by the President to be opened. After much pushing and urging from everyone (even Boeing sent a letter to him stating that the 737s are certified to land at 1,500 Meters and the current runway is 1,650 meters), he has ordered it open until... We are now waiting to see if that until happens. According to the papers, the airport has 120 days to make some small changed like removing a fence that is at the beginning of the runway and installing it further away (they have already started doing this job) and changing some lights and things.

There should not be any problem getting this done, but this President has great desire to close this airport and move it to Comayaguela (where our military base is). He is getting a lot of pressure from Nicaragua and Venezuela to open this base up to commercial traffic which would in turn put pressure on the US to leave. The agreement to open the airport in Teguc is only until Palmerola can be made ready for commercial traffic. This means making a new 4 lane road from Teguc to Comayaguela. This would be wonderful to have, but not at the cost of the airport here.

We are not to concerned though as we know how Honduras works. It could take years to fix the road. While they estimate 6 months we know better. We are hoping that by the time this gets fixed a new president will be in office and will not close the airport.

Tomorrow the first commercial planes should land here in Teguc again. Yeah!!! We are so happy.