The Cayman Islands are currently undergoing a pretty massive outbreak of gastroenteritis and both Kathleen and Arianna have been down with it this week. The Health Services Authority actually released a special bulletin saying that at this time of the year they normally get 15 case a week but that in each of the past two weeks they have had over 60 cases a week reported. We spent a good deal of Thursday in the Emergency Room to get Arianna checked for possible dehydration as she had been throwing up and suffering from diarrhea. She has been good about drinking which has probably kept her from being in as bad a shape as the many toddlers they have actually admitted to the hospital instead of just examining, prescribing some anti nausea medicine and releasing like the they did with her. Katie had come down with the stomach bug Tuesday and been under the weather for a couple of days before Arianna also caught it. My father was on island for the memorial walk that we hold every year in February to raise money for the scholarship fund at the college and the college board of trustees meeting and even being very careful with contact he has come down with it too. So far I have avoided it and with Katie and Arianna getting better and John headed home I am hopeful that this one will pass me by (knock on wood).
The Memorial walk chose as its theme this year a traditional Caymanian saying "Try come so walk wid me nah" which translates to lets take a walk together. We had about 50 walkers and everyone wanted to know where Arianna and Katie were. We did get a special t-shirt for the memorial walk made for Arianna when we planned to have her walk with us and here she is in it.
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