Tuesday April 19th
2011
A bit disappointing as we
heard late last night that we could not see Raul of Speranta
Familiei today as was planned, because he had been
unexpected summoned to court for an extra hearing regarding a complication in
an adoption case the charity are involved with. So we arranged to see him
tomorrow after we have been with Agape.
Phil and I slept on rather
late – the old ladies were quite amused at how late we were appearing for
breakfast!! We went in Oradea, met Alex, he and I did a necessary document at
the Notary regarding Mustard Seed Romania. Any major changes regarding the
charity require 3 signatures and one of those signatures is mine, so the
document needed to be drawn up while I was here. The notary’s secretary seemed
to spend all her time entering information in a ledger, stapling mountains of
documents together and rubber stamping them! We know from experience that to
the Romanians the rubber stamp is very important – more important than the
signature on a document, which I find hard to understand.
Then we went into the
hospital to see Flori. Because her blood results are
not good she has had to stay in hospital after her dialysis yesterday
– possibly till tomorrow evening
or maybe longer. She was over-joyed to see us and told us that she had a
transfusion she is feeling better (I know she was a bit wobbly on Sunday
afternoon and evening). We promised to phone tomorrow and I said that if she
does not come home then we will most certainly aim to go to the hospital again
to see her before we leave on Thursday.
[To those who have been to Oradea and the hospital for
sick children, the far end of the building is now used for various medical
clinics including the kidney dialysis one.]