Sunday - Jan 29

Thanks everybody for leaving comments. We really appreciate the feed back. It makes us feel like we are not that far away and going through this alone.

Today started at 5:10 am so already the 4 am feeding is later, woo hoo!
And I am posting so late because her 10:00 pm feeding just ended at 11:35 pm so we're hoping for a 6:00 am feeding tomorrow.

This morning the baby's congestion seemed to be getting worse. Linda wanted her to see a doctor. All guests of the hotel get free medical care. We called down to the front desk and ordered one doctor.

Within an hour a lady doctor and an assistant showed up at the door, neither of which spoke english.
Of course the english to spanish dictionary that we have doesn't have the word "congestion" or "yellow boogies" in it.
Linda and I had to play charades with the doctor which was actually alot easier than we figured it would be.

That is right up until she handed me a prescription. All of you know how difficult it is reading a prescription at home. Ha Ha, you should try being here. The Doctor starts telling me what to do in spanish. Just like dopey Americans who try to speak slower so the foreigner understands, she did to me. Well guess what, no matter how slow she spoke, I am still illiterate in Spanish.

I was freaking out, I could feel my ears getting hot and red. We had to call the front desk and the doctor told them what to do. They then translated to Linda over the phone. So the doc leaves.

Okay, now what. Do we call walgreens and go pick up or prescription in 20 minutes. Obviously they don't have a walgreens here. At least we haven't discovered one yet. So we called our translator to take us to a pharmacist.

He just happened to be up in the mountains today (his terminology, as I see mountains all around me) and won't be back until after 6:00 pm. Which by this time is about 8 hours away.

Now he wants me to read the prescription to him over the phone so he could call it in for us. Holy crap! As stated earlier, reading a prescription in english is nearly impossible. This process took about 15 minutes, because one of the words was apparently abreviated and he kept asking me why I needed drops for the baby's elbow. What the fudge was this guy doing up in the mountains anyway? Especially since we are already in the mountains.

He hangs up and calls back 5 minutes later and said that the drugs will be delivered to our room in about 20 minutes which they were and everything has been fine since. There must be some serious prescription plan here because the two drugs that I got cost a grand total of 6,800 pesos plus a 2,000 peso tip to the bell boy came out to the equivalent to about $4.50 american money.

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The rest of the day turned out to be a very casual day.
We had nothing to do today except lounge around the pool and go grocery shopping. We are now in an apartment suite with a kitchen, living room and Bedroom. It's nice and comfortable.

We met another couple from California who adopted a baby girl. They also were using the same attorney as us back on Long Island. It turns out this guy grew up in Hicksville and lived there until he was in his 20's. So we got pretty friendly with them.
They got here a week before us. It has been great to have somebody to talk to.

I'm going to sign off now because it is now 12:06 am and I can't see any more. I will have a bunch of pictures to upload tomorrow.