Manuel Blog 3-9

From Friday- I let Manuel sleep in since he was up a lot of the night Thursday night.Manuel's tummy was just a mild problem in the morning. I made French toast for Breakfast. We did a few stretches, his bandage cleaning, then met Brian for lunch at a Spanish/Mexican restaraunt. It was the real kind- the kid where all the worksers are Mexican or from other Soanish speaking countries and they have the TV on the Spanish Stations. The owner is a very kind man from Venezuela. He talked to Manuel a bit. I told him a bit about Manuel. where he is from, why he is here, etc. He asked if there were people that spoke Spanish that he can talk to and said Manuel was more than welcome to come to the restaraunt anytime to visit. He even said Manuel could come to his house and spend time with his family. A real authentic Spanisk culture family, I bet! Then he gave Manuel a gift certificate for $10. I'll take him back next week for lunch.

His right leg (with the most burns) looks so much better! HIs left leg (mostly donor) still hurts him a lot and bleeds. But it doesn't bleed nearly as much as it used to bleed. The sores still look about the same though.

His tummy hurts him the most when he is bored. When he in engaged he is easily distracted from the pain. That's good.

I gave him Benadryl to help him sleep. He slept all through the night.

Oh- after lunch, we went to the boonshoft museum. Manuel seemed to really enjoy it. He climbed the rope ladder. That was awesome therapy for his legs! And he went down the spiral slide. We sat in on a little chemistry lab. Manuel got to put Alkaseltzer tabs with water in a film canister and shoot the lid.

We went to a planetarium show. Just sitting there with nothing to do, his stomach was pretty painful. Not sure what that means.

Oh, the guy from Venezuela said when he moved here, it took 1.5 months for his stomach to feel better. The food here is just hard to get used to eating and digesting. He told that to Manuel and that he will feel better in a week or two probably.

Poor Manuel.... when he goes back home, he'll have tummy aches again as he gets re-used to their food in Honduras.

here are some pics from the museum. Manuel styled his hair all on his own. He slicked it back.