Chasing the sunsets

Kristin Haynes has over the last months been a busybee here in West End.
She has made a painting of nearly every diveshop, bar and restaurant by now.
Postcards have been printed and the profit from the sales goes to the SolFoundation:
www.solroatan.org
You can see more if you visit www.kristinhaynes.blogspot.com

Marquito

The letter from Carmen

Marquito

Marcos is back from Tegucigalpa. Carmen and Marquito have to stay over there.
They have not done the operation yet. The doctors decided to try another treatment after they had to postpone the operation twice.
If that does not work either they have to operate, but they have some hopes it might.
The donated money has been deposited at the hospital and Marcos brought over a copy of the receipt.
It goes towards the treatment, laboratory tests. Carmen and Marcos have been assured they will not have to come up with the whole amount again if there has be a surgery in the next month or two. Guess you can call they got a package deal.

Carmen , sweet Carmen, also send over a letter to thank everyone who has been and still is helping them economically.
She also wrote a little note to explain Marquitos medical condition, but it contains medical terms which we need help with to translate and explain.

People Carmen and Marcos want to thank (and we at Tyll's too) so far:
Ed and Mo, who got generous tip on the 8th of march at the Blue Marlin, because they told it would go to the little boy.
Claus and Fran, who were visiting the island.
Jacquie (also muchos gracias for helping make this happen), Conal, Chase, Michael, Capt. Alex, Ruthie, Jenny Myton, Jenny Blenny, Kathryn (RG), Gay (CCT), Nina, Erna, Wolfgang Gehring , Marty and David Sperow, Diane.

Besides that Marcos tip money and pay for looking after Moody Blues for Noelle, went into the pot as well.

There is a saying, just not sure its quite like this, but you will understand the meaning.
Many small creeks makes a big river.

When help is needed.

This is something new to us, to ask people for money. But its not for ourselves at least.

We are trying to collect money for Carmen (worked for Justus at the Purple Turtle) and Marcos (our boatcaptain for years now.) Their 8 months old son is having surgery on thursday. Most likely he is gonna have one kidney removed. The treatments so far has not helped and the kidney is very bad. Carmen has been in Tegucigalpa for over a month now. They only have the income from Marcos now. We and Justus have lend them money for the unsuccesful treatments.
The baby is in hospital Maternidad Infantil in Tegucigalpa and before the surgery its common practice to make a deposit. In this case it's lempiras 11.000.

Its all on a very short notice, so we have not had much time to arrange anything.
Jacquie, divemaster in training, has been very helpful with coming up with ideas, where I would have gotten stucked.

But people here have been great at chipping in. Many small amounts sums up in the end and we are positive to be able to deposit the amount at Banco Atlantida by wednesday.

This is the beautie in a small community, people do look after each other in times of need.

Thank you all.