The time is drawing near very quickly when I will be on US soil for a while. As usual, much has happened since I last wrote - the room for The Center for Early Detection of Hearing Loss in Children (yes, we now have a name!) has finally been guaranteed by the hospital administrator so that we can proceed! PTL! After the first feeling of paralysis, many creative design ideas came to me for the room and Winnie the Pooh still reigns supreme in my mind as the resident mascot. The goals are to make the place bright and cheerful for people to come with their kiddies. Believe it or not, that is a different concept here!
The Lord has blessed my contacts here. He put me in contact with a lovely woman (daughter of a hearing aid recipient) who works at city hall and has caught the vision of this center for the city of Cluj and for Transylvania. She has been advocating for me and has already gotten me a donation of a desk and some building supplies and possibly volunteers for the constructing and painting etc. She even arranged for me to meet the new mayor! I have also met the American consul already! You know me - hobnobbing with the rich and famous!
Health? Ho-hum?? Hello!! Health has been anything but ho-hum since arriving here! Contracted a dry cough from a teammate (we like to share things!) and was coughing so hard that I "popped a cork". Please ask me if you would like to know what I mean! Taking antibiotics now and am under a doctor's care. Please pray with me that my energy and strength would come back very soon. Needless to say it will be nice to be home to rest, relax and recuperate and eat shrimp!
My friend, Maureen, arrived here for a delightful 4 days from Strasbourg, France. She has been a missionary there for 12 years. Another wonderfully exciting arrival just happened TODAY - the 2 NEW pieces of equipment!!! What fun to have these new goodies!
Hope to see some of you this summer - Home from July 16th to Sept. 3rd, in AZ for sis' wedding July 22nd - Aug. 3rd.
