Thursday night I was walking over to the apt. building with one of the guys from the team about 10:30 having a discussion about creation and absolute truth of Scripture... We had just gotten to the apartment when Brooke ran out calling me to come quickly, something is wrong with Simone. I ran over to Brooke's apt. to find Simone on the floor. Brooke explained that they were talking and Simone just collapsed. Simone was laying on the floor and opened her eyes when I got there. She tried to sit up and I held her head as she told me she felt dizzy, was seeing black spots, her head was hurting and then her eyes kind of rolled back and she collapsed to the floor again. I left Brooke with her and ran to the truck and drove over to Chad's and got the van. Racing back to the apt I picked her up and carried her to the van. Sheldon, Simone's husband, Brooke and I took off for the hospital. I learned that it is possible to get from JDV to the ER in less than 10 minutes! We pulled up to the ER and called out for help... Sheldon ended up just carrying her in and putting her in a wheel chair since that was the quickest way. Of course Hospital rules are that only one person can enter with the patient(never mind she is deaf and can't communicate) so we were required to go in the other entrance and fight our way into the ER. I came very close to causing a scene with the security guard and finally convinced him that he wasn't going to be able to stop me from getting in to interpret for her by himself.
Got there as the nurse was checking vitals and stuff and explained what happened. We then were told to wait in the waiting room for the Doctor. The Dr. came around about an hour later and checked her again and ordered a urine test. We then proceeded to wait for 3 1/2 more hours for the results of that! Yeah, you really have to love "Free National Heath Care"!!! It is SO efficient and wonderful. No sarcasm there!! If you know anyone dumb enough to think that would be good for the US to have National Health Care, please send them down here and I will take them on a field trip! When Simone thought she was going to throw up we couldn't even get a bag or bowl for her.
Thankfully that the 5 hour hospital visit ended up alright. Simone is doing fine! I am still trying to catch up on sleep:)
Now I am heading to Kingston for the day. Will post pictures of the progress there in the near future!

Last Saturday after Jumping off the cliffs in Negril, Jeremy and I went to Mobay to check one last thing off the list. Snorkeling. We went inot Dr. Cave and got our stuff and had been swimming around for about 1/2 an hour when something shifted in the pocket of my swim trunks. Reaching down my fears were confirmed... cell phone. Yeah, not sure if you are aware of this or not, but cell phones don't really get along with water all that well! Oops!
When I got back to Mandeville Sunday and picked up Ionda, I told him what had happened. The initial outburst followed by him laughing from Knockpatrick all the way to the village made it worth the frustration of being such an idiot. He couldn't wait to tell everyone!! :)

This past week my cousin Jeremy cam down for a visit! It was great to have him here and we had to get a pic of 'the guys' on the last night.
Marvin, Me, Sheldon, Jeremy and Ionda



Even put him to work with the team from Crossroads(Duquesne) pouring concrete while I worked in the factory




The Concrete Mixing Crew. Sarah, Brittney, Laura, Maddie, Brooke, Marcy, Wayne, Pete and Amy

I am getting a little ahead of myself in the timeline with this post, but haven't gotten my photo's from last week up just yet...
Today I arrived in the factory and was getting the guys all set up for the day when Diana came stumbling in completely out of breath to inform me that they could not wake up MJ(Marvaline Johnson). A little history... MJ has a number of health problems, the most serious being Lupus. I dropped everything and hammered up the hill to the apt. building and ran into her room. In the short ride up Diana explained that they had tried to shake her awake and had even tried a glass of water. I felt for a pulse and it was so faint it took a few seconds to be sure. About that time Pastor Damian came running in and between the two of us we carried her out to his van. He took off with her, Geneva and Diana for the Hospital and I took his kids and dropped them off at school. As soon as I dropped them off I headed for the ER arriving not too long after they did(everyone says I drive like a Jamaican taxi:) After helping to interpret for the doctor and nurses the information Geneva and Diana had, Damian took them back to JDV and I stayed to wait for results from blood tests and everything. After about 1.5 hours on IV's MJ came to. We then proceeded to wait until after 5pm before we got results from one of the tests... They discharged her then and told us to come back tomorrow for the results of the other test.
Jamaica Hospital ER was a first for me... or as Granpy would have said, 'I went there twice in one day... My first and last time!' or at least I hope so!!!

Steve making short work of digging out the footings

Tieing steel for the footings

Mixing cement for the footings

I will post more pictures from last week's team in Kingston... Didn't have my normal internet access while at the Kingston school to get pictures posted last week. They are all up on facebook, but for some reason it takes a long time to load them onto this blog so be patient with me on that.

Sunday morning church in Kingston. After Sunday School the kids did a couple of dramas and then when one of the teacher's asked the older students who was preaching, they said Warren. Not sure who was more surprised... the teacher that didn't know who the sign name 'W' on the shoulder, or me since that was the first I knew I would be preaching!






The kids getting ready for school to start.

The group from Freemont, MI. L to R: Steve, Lew, Rich, Greg, Judy, Brian, Lisa and Keven. Fantastic group to work with... Willing hearts, hard working and a lot of fun!