Today has been a day filled with blessings and challenges! In Russia, little children are highly valued. If you are with a small child, people are often more friendly, will frequently give you a seat on a completely crowded bus and will even allow you to move to the front of the line. Our children have been a blessing after a long trip back to Russia, we have been able to move to the front of very long, slow custom lines. Today, since Keith is still in Ivanovo, I had to go to the Passport Office to verify a new rule for leaving the country. Usually, Keith leaves the house at 7 AM, stands in line outside (in the winter in very cold temperatures), and then waits for 2 or more hours inside for his turn. Today, I had to take the kids and we were in and out of the office in 10 minutes!!! What a blessing!!!
The bad news was when we were leaving, I grabbed ME by the arm to help her down the stairs and her arm popped out of the socket! I so thought I had dislocated her arm. She would not move it and I would lift it up and it would just flop back down. My cell phone was almost dead, we had not eaten breakfast (because we were in a hurry to get to the Passport Office), so I decided to come home and call a doctor or 911. Gideon suggested we pray for ME (isn’t that sweet), so in the Taxi, we prayed for her. When we got home, she was still fussy and babying her arm. I gave her ibuprofen and in a few minutes she seemed to start using her arm more and seemed a lot better. I still have not called the doctor and am just waiting to see if she continues to improve. Praise the Lord we did not have to spend the day in the Russia hospital! Please pray her arm is fine and that I will be more careful---I felt like such a terrible mother!!!
I am in that post plus pre-trip craze…so, as ME was napping and Gideon was watching a movie, I was busy repacking our bags for our trip to Prague on Sunday….WHEN the wash machine stopped working along with the stove/oven, dishwasher, refrigerator, and microwave. I called Keith---OK, what did I really think he could do from Ivanovo??? So, I called our landlord and am now waiting for the public electrician to come to our house to see what is wrong. This just adds more fun to an all ready eventful day. Our experiences with “public repair men” have not been that positive. In Russia, each apartment has their own repair men. The last one who came to our house in Ivanovo was so drunk. He told us he needed to go and get a part to fix our problem and did not return for 2 months!!! I hope I am not waiting for 2 months to finish my laundry!!!
Pray Keith makes it home safely tonight and we get our wash machine, etc working TODAY!!!
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Jude had that happen to his shoulder. We took him to the doctor and she popped it back in. She said it is very common. Usually they are fine once the joint goes back into the socket...just a little sore.
Hope your week improves.
We have some friends who have done that to their youngest twice. The second time on the way to the hospital, the elder girl made the younger laugh, and it popped back in place. God is merciful.
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