25 October 2010 Monday 9am My mother in law, Vilma, is still here and still very sick and not eating. Although the doctors in the German Nicaraguan hospital in Managua didn’t find anything, they told Bernardo, my father in law, that she has symptoms of cancer. What kind of cancer, who knows? I have no idea what the oncology departments could do, if there were oncology departments. The point is, we hope it’s not cancer. But what little she eats, like 3 or 4 spoonfuls a day, she usually throws up. She is basically dying of starvation and dehydration. Lenin and I are doing all that we can by buying special dried milk fortified with everything and buying IV fluids to try and keep her hydrated and buying injections for pain to try and keep her
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