The Georges in Peru
Sleeping on the Floor
Amy hasn't been able to eat at the dinner table for a couple of days, but since she was doing a bit better yesterday afternoon, we decided to have her try sitting at the table with the family again. It didn't work: She kept reaching for things (she can't see hardly anything), dragging…
MoreBetter night
I'm glad to report that last night was markedly better than the previous. Amy slept, or at least was quiet, for most of the night. She woke up at 3 am and said, "I want granola with yogurt!" Yes, my home-made granola is that good. You want to get up at 3 am to eat the stuff…
MoreHorrible Night
Last night Amy hallucinated and talked loudly almost the entire night. She also kicked and pinched and hit me several times. I only got an hour's sleep. Several times I pled with her to be quiet, hoping that a rational part of her brain would be able to take over, but that…
MoreGood news and bad news
The Good News first:Amy's maintained her weight for about a week now. She's been laughing again. She has rarely laughed and never cried over the last 2 months. She still will say funny things (I mean on purpose, not the hallucinations, which are funny too). She's been…
MoreWinning the Weight War
The last two times we've weighed Amy she's actually gone up in weight. I think it is helping that we keep feeding her even after she loses interest. She's not been vomiting for several days too. Plus, I've been making lots of icecream and sourdough bread with butter and honey,…
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I want a haircut!
Pretty much anything feasible that Amy requests she gets. This would be approximately half the requests. When she requested a haircut yesterday, we thought, "We can do that!" So Sarah and Mia started their careers as cosmonauts, [ahem] cosmetologists yesterday.
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Apple Pie
Amy's lost a lot of weight over the last three weeks because she's had no appetite, or worse, nausea and vomiting. She's been feeling better recently, so we've been trying hard to get her to eat more. She's really got a sweet tooth and yesterday ate a lot of Swedish Cheesecake (Östkaka…
MoreCan I laugh?
As I've mentioned, Amy says a lot of nonsense right now. She's pretty convinced that we have two more kids, Ellie and Luís (and sometimes Lisa and others). At first when she spoke like this we didn't know how to react. Can one laugh at someone whose brilliant mind is now…
MoreKind of the same
Again, not much to report. Amy ate better than usual today, but mostly slept on the couch. She was quite confused today. I took Sarah, Mia and Paul shopping for black clothing today. Hated doing it but it needed to be done now and not later.
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Normal Day
No, it wasn't a normal day. It's rather hard to imagine 'normal' at the moment. But we try to carry on with our normal activities. Not that we are in denial about the gravity of Amy's situation, but we can't sit paralyzed waiting for her to die. I went to our missionary team…
MoreThe Georges in Peru
About Us
We are Allen and Mary Beth George from Nebraska and Manitoba respectively. Allen has been serving in Peru with SIM since 2000 when he arrived with his late wife, Amy. Mary Beth has been serving in Peru since 2005. Sarah & Zach are both in their medical residencies in Chicago (Sarah in emergency medicine and Zach in family medicine). Ben is working for Ahlstrom-Munksjö in Taylorville, Illinois. Mia is in her 2nd year studying physical therapy at Loma Linda U. in California. Paul works as a programmer at Epic in Madison, Wisconsin.
What are we doing?
The Georges are church planting in Punta de Bombón, a town about about 6000 people on the coast of Peru.