Life's a beach in Lima

¡Cuidado con las olas!

Sizzling summer

Summer has finally arrived in Lima! Yesterday it was 82 F with a radiant sun and clear skies. People are going to the beach. I used my sunglasses for the first time since I arrived here. At last, Lima is beginning to feel like the tropics. From what we've heard, the summer season is short in Lima, so we better enjoy it while we can!

Post-holiday health

Well, I think my stomach is on the heal (battered by multiple bacterial infections as well as the antibiotics to cure the same infections) with B12 + folic acid to repair my stomach lining. But then we found out my nephew Matthew has whooping cough. We spent the Christmas holiday with him and our family in Chicago where there seems to be an epidemic. So, we all got on antibiotics again to catch it early and to avoid infecting anyone else. Hopefully this will be my last round of antibiotics for a long time!! We just found out that no one else in the household has it, so we probably don't have it either...it's not that easy to pass. However, we all have nasty coughs (which we thought might be whooping cough), so it seems that was a parallel illness running through my family over Christmas. Ixchel has a little throat/tonsil infection, so she's also on antibiotics and has not been able to go back to her nido. We're all a little stir crazy...especially since the weather is nice here now! Alex' Aunt Vicki arrives this coming week and we should be healthy and ready to show her Lima and we'll see what else.

Stomach saga

I (Stephanie) have been a little down b/c I'm sick all the time. I had another stomach relapse about one week before Christmas and was nauseous and could hardly eat until about New Year's. And I was really looking forward to pigging out and getting my weight back up to normal! I'm still not ok so I'm seeing another specialist and they're doing more parasite tests. I hope they can figure it out and treat me. In the meantime, we're trying to cook at home which is a total bummer given all the good Peruvian food. Maybe once I'm feeling better I'll get a Peruvian cookbook and learn some recipes. I feel behind in my research b/c of being sick all the time, but hopefullly I'll be better and can get moving again.