Today is Remembrance Day, so the kids are home from school (they had a 4-day long weekend!); they had Remembrance Day chapels last week, though I'm not sure the younger ones really grasp the significance. Right now they're over at Grandpa & Grandma's, watching their daily allotment of TV. Except for Jenny - she's house-bound except for essentials, as she's so hard to get any place (Mike ended up carrying her back from Grandma's when we were there for supper on Sunday).

Yup, the saga continues for Jenny. Last week we finally figured out she was suffering from withdrawal from her medication, so we upped the dosage a bit to give her some relief, and we'll take her off more slowly now. She is not fun to have in the house (again, remember this is because of her illness, not because we don't like Jenny the person), and she doesn't like us not doing things for her; she can argue all day long, given the chance! And yet when we were at some friends' place for supper last Thursday evening and they taught us the old game "spin the plate", she was off her chair in an instant to pick up the "plate" before it hit the floor. Again, her actions or lack thereof are so confusing. Especially when she's going through withdrawal - we don't want to "punish" her by not doing things for her when the medication is making things so hard for her, and yet we're afraid that if we start doing everything for her, she'll not make any effort herself and end up back in the hospital again. We are constantly second-guessing ourselves in how to deal with her. Pray!!! We don't see any improvements, and wonder what is next. But it will take a month or so to get her off her medication, then it's almost Christmas time, then in January she'll be in the Gordon Townsend school for 6 weeks. So maybe we should wait until all that is finished before looking for something else. Choices!

Jenny's aide, Sarah, seems to be really good. She has worked with an autistic child before, so is no stranger to "special needs". She is also "no-nonsense", so will not be easily swayed by Jenny's pleas! Pray for her as she endures some of Jenny's toughest days yet at school.

Mike is VERY happy to be at home again, and he has started wading through his pile of work. Maybe one of these days we can work on the Oroko dictionary again.

Jenny got a chance to chat with Rachel Friesen on Sunday morning, and Mike had a good talk with Dan & Lisa yesterday. Friesens are subbing at the hostel in the capital city for a while, so they have a good internet connection :) It sounds like the book of Jonah in Oroko will be out very soon, followed by the Joseph story before Christmas - very exciting!!! There are LOTS of teaching opportunities from these two publications.

Please pray with us for Dwayne and Crystal - Dwayne was one of the pastors from here who has been so sick, now on sick leave from the church. He was approved for a liver transplant, and yesterday had the opportunity for the actual operation. But when they opened him up, they found cancer in a duct, so they just closed him up. He probably doesn't have long. 4 young boys.

Our week was rather mild all in all - Kenneth, Laura, and Mike got their blood tests (and the doctor let us know that everything was normal), and Jenny and Kenneth had a very quick check with a dental person to verify they needed sealants. Jenny had an appointment on Friday with a medical person here in town who will be seeing Jenny while our normal dr is in Nigeria for over a month (one of his friends made this neat operating table on bicycle wheels that they can transport into the bush!!). And we again enjoyed our "Brunch Bunch" gathering on Saturday. On Sunday, Christy had her debut with a worship team in church (there are 4 groups who rotate, so she and Mike are on separate teams and each help out only once every 4 weeks). I enjoyed not having to teach Sunday School for a change :), as it was a holiday weekend so there was open session for all the kids.

Ok, that's all for now. Jenny has appointments in Calgary on Thursday (her usual dr meeting, then at the metabolic clinic, finally).