Amigos cont

Juan-This guy is awesome and he NEVER wears a shirt! He has the best attitude ever and is always joking around with us. He's been here since we first started coming to the hospital and today was quite sad when we had to say goodbye. He had a compound fracture in his calf a few months ago and now has osteomyelitis-a very serious bone infection that needs to be treated correctly with IV antibiotics for months. This hospital simply does not have the antibiotics that he needs. To compensate, they change from week to week his antibiotics according to what they have available. The doctor today was trying to encourage him to have the leg amputated but he completely trusts in the Lord for complete healing. Today was the first time we saw a serious side of Juan. He actually started crying and we talked about God's perfect plan for him and how Juan wanted to go back to work and provide for his daughter but physically can't and how he doesn't want his leg amputated for this reason. God is doing some serious healing on him physically and more importantly spiritually.

Winston-he was shot in his upper leg and the bullet shattered his femur about 7 months ago. An ironic situation because Winston had graduated from Peniel, the rehab center our church works with and sponsors addicts to attend. Upon graduation, he experimented with drugs and got involved in the wrong crowd again and thus got shot. He was been in the hospital and had screws placed to repair his femur which got extremely infected while at home and now he is back at the hospital. He is serious about his spiritual life now and wants to change and live for God. He is always reading his Bible when we come to visit and Joe has had many deep conversations with him regarding different thoughts of theology.

An adorable little couple where the wife had a pretty nasty infection in her toe that was actually amputated. He serenaded the hospital room one day (which was precious) and always had a huge smile!

Margarita-she had a leg infection when we first met her and she was in the room with all guys. They moved her into another room and we were told she went home a few days later...which she did and THEN came back to the hospital because the infection was not healed. We ran into her in the hallway and exchanged addresses and numbers.

This fella is Pedro Enrique. He was one of the first guys we met and he was only there for a few weeks after we got here. He is a pretty adorable old man who knew probably 15 English words and also loooved to use them any chance he got. He always wanted to know about the US and was obsessed with us meeting his daughter and son-in-law. We gave him a copy of this picture and he was pretty giddy, he had a huge crush on Julie. He gave the picture to his girlfriend. He thought he was pretty handsome in it.