It's still raining...

     Three weeks without a drop of rain.  Things were looking so bleak that even the hospital had to hire this truck to come to fill the tank outside of the operating theatre so that we could have running water in the operating room.  Even then we only had water trickling out of the faucet where we were washing our hands for surgery. 

     Then last night while we were getting ready to eat dinner, huge black thunderclouds moved in.  There was an enormous double rainbow for a few minutes, and then it started to rain, and rain, and rain.  The power went out for awhile.  We were so grateful to finally have some water to fill our tanks from the runoff from our roof.  That means we can bathe and do some laundry today! This is what the rain looked like pouring off of our porch.  The sky had become so dark that it was as if it were already night time.  I honestly don't think I have ever taken a picture of rain before!
     Today had been another busy day of taking care of so many patients.  I was particularly discouraged by trying to resect a cervical cancer, but the cancer involved the bladder and ureters and I was unable to complete the surgery.  At the moment there is no radiation therapy in the entire country.  I called Dr. Jim Radcliffe into the operating theatre to have hiim look, and he confirmed that we had gone as far as we could, and so I had to stop the surgery, leaving the cancerous cervix inside. 

     On the way home down the path to our house today, this little child was sitting inside a discarded piece of concrete pipe.  It was a nice place to hide from the afternoon sun (just prior to the approaching rain clouds arriving.)  It was just the perfect size for him to put his legs up and relax.