Time to update again. Thank you all for faithfully praying us through all of the last 4 days. I just wrote four and I can't believe that is all that it has been. We are back in Soroti tonight and glad to be here. At the end of my last post I think we were waiting to get through the night and off to the international hospital in the morning. We met with a good doctor shortly after 8am who took us very seriously and immediately said it sounded just like septic arthritis. He gave us a referral to an orthopedic surgeon who could see us at 10am. So we killed some time and were sitting outside his office waiting by 9:50.  Unfortunately this is still Africa, so we finally got in to see him just before 11. He heard the whole story and sent us to radiology for ultrasound to see where exactly the fluid was. We waited another hour but then had a great ultrasound tech who immediately identified the fluid as within the joint with debris and clear infectious process.   So with test results in hand we headed back to the surgeon. He said he was willing to operate but as Tim is doing tolerably well he could try a two week course of antibiotics and reassess.
So we crashed back at the guest house to rest and pack up. Then this morning (after sleeping in a little) we headed back to Soroti. Tim isn't feeling as well as I would like him to be but he is doing O.K. It has been a crazy couple of days and it is really time to call it a night. I'm looking forward to not being awake at 2:30am.  Thank you all again.