03/29/2007

Today Olivia seemed a little sick, we had another typical visit, we asked to play in the “exercise room” upstairs again which we were allowed to. But learned later that the doctors were upset that we were in that room and told our translators that the Americans can not go in any room they please. They basically stated that they had a schedule. This is a room that they stated the children exercise in, but both are children acted like they had never or seldom go in that room. So I don’t think that they we will be allowed to go in that room again.

We were asked if we wanted to meet a baby that we had been shown a photo of just prior to our leaving for Kazakhstan. We said yes, and they said tomorrow we could meet her. She had just turned one on the 28th, and had been in Almaty having surgery to repair her cleft lip/palette. On our way out the doctor asked us if we would get some medicine for Olivia since she was sick. She wrote us a prescription on a plain piece of paper. Apparently you don’t need an official prescription in Kazakhstan; you can buy anything you want. She also asked us to pick up some medication for the other babies as well; which we agreed to do. We went to two pharmacies and were able to find 2 of the 3 medications but could not locate the third medication.