5/20/09 A Quick Update on the Last Newsletter
This is primarily for those of you who sent prayers or good energy to little Pamela de Los Angeles Duarte Picado: since the day of the last letter (5/12) Pamelita has made a complete turn-around. She went through two more operations, the final one lasting 5 hours. The doctors said nothing more could be done for her. Now intestines which appeared to be dead are healthy again. She recently was removed from the oxygen supports, so Beatriz can be with her all the time now. And in a couple days she will taste mother’s milk for the first time. The doctors are calling it a miracle. Ronny and I talked today. He says the family is ecstatic and very grateful, and asked me to thank everyone who prayed in whatever manner, and in particular to thank Robin and Catherine for their kind email.
I have no photos of little Pamela to put on the blog, but a week ago another baby was rescued from the road here in San Josecito: a 2-day-old zaino, or collared peccary. Alvin Nunez and I were on our way to Cortez to take care of some business, and when he saw the baby Alvin yelled for me to stop, and proceeded to chase the little thing. He asked me if I had a towel, because even the littlest baby peccaries are ferocious and have razor-like teethe. He threw the towel over it and we took it back to my house. Since then Alvin has taken it to his house and has been trying to get it to bottle-feed, but it doesn’t want the bottle. It will suck at mangoes, and now has begun to eat bananas, but for this baby too survival was pretty iffy. I bought it some vitamins and specially formulated milk yesterday in San Isidro. When it’s out of its cage now it follows Alvin as though he were its mother. I wanted to call it Dulcinera after the character in “Man from LaMancha,” but they’ve been calling it Colmillo, which means “tusk,” and it already answers to this name. I’ll try to get Colmillo’s photos on the blog soon: (http://bridgesnmore.blogspot.com/).
The date for my departure is arriving quickly. I hope to get at least a small taste of spring, which is all we get on Cape Cod in any case.
Pura Vida,
Elizabeth
This is primarily for those of you who sent prayers or good energy to little Pamela de Los Angeles Duarte Picado: since the day of the last letter (5/12) Pamelita has made a complete turn-around. She went through two more operations, the final one lasting 5 hours. The doctors said nothing more could be done for her. Now intestines which appeared to be dead are healthy again. She recently was removed from the oxygen supports, so Beatriz can be with her all the time now. And in a couple days she will taste mother’s milk for the first time. The doctors are calling it a miracle. Ronny and I talked today. He says the family is ecstatic and very grateful, and asked me to thank everyone who prayed in whatever manner, and in particular to thank Robin and Catherine for their kind email.
I have no photos of little Pamela to put on the blog, but a week ago another baby was rescued from the road here in San Josecito: a 2-day-old zaino, or collared peccary. Alvin Nunez and I were on our way to Cortez to take care of some business, and when he saw the baby Alvin yelled for me to stop, and proceeded to chase the little thing. He asked me if I had a towel, because even the littlest baby peccaries are ferocious and have razor-like teethe. He threw the towel over it and we took it back to my house. Since then Alvin has taken it to his house and has been trying to get it to bottle-feed, but it doesn’t want the bottle. It will suck at mangoes, and now has begun to eat bananas, but for this baby too survival was pretty iffy. I bought it some vitamins and specially formulated milk yesterday in San Isidro. When it’s out of its cage now it follows Alvin as though he were its mother. I wanted to call it Dulcinera after the character in “Man from LaMancha,” but they’ve been calling it Colmillo, which means “tusk,” and it already answers to this name. I’ll try to get Colmillo’s photos on the blog soon: (http://bridgesnmore.blogspot.com/).
The date for my departure is arriving quickly. I hope to get at least a small taste of spring, which is all we get on Cape Cod in any case.
Pura Vida,
Elizabeth
Now May 21--last night Beatriz and Pamela were featured in a sort of miracle story on Channel 13!
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