This is just a quick note that *I* think is funny, but may gross some people out. So take care before reading on…..
After finishing all the physicals on the kids last week, my next goal as “doctora” here for Makarios was to deworm the kids. Living in a country where the water isn’t the cleanest can bring lots of various bacteria, worms and such into our kid’s systems,which steal away the nutrients from the food each student receives daily. Therefore, we give them medicine to hopefully kill all their worms twice a year.
Last November, the medical team brought down Pin-X and gave each student a dose. It has been six months since then, and so we bought albendazole tablets for each of the students (Thanks Chuck!). Yesterday, Profe Lauren’s class received the pills. We sent home notes, so that the parents wouldn’t be surprised if their kid passed worms. Today she overheard this conversation in her classroom. I wish you could hear the kids talk, it would just make you laugh!
Davidson: I pooped a serpiente (snake) last night! It was SO big. I yelled for my dad to come kill it.
Darling Frid: I pooped a gusano (worm) too! I yelled for my mom and I cried. It was this big (motions about 2 feet long).
Davidson: I didn’t cry. My stomach hurt so bad! (no tears for this 5 year old boy!)
Darling Frid: I cried. My stomach hurt too.
Two of the other students said they also passed worms, and a few others said they had stomach pain (yay for killing worms!).
One step further in the fight against malnutrition! Now we’re just feeding the kids at school, not the worms!
(Sorry, no pictures for this one)
