Dog still under the effects of sedation- only time I've seen this. |
So I do have a legit excuse for promising to get back to blogging
and after less than a week falling away already. I arrived back to Soroti for CLIDE's
annual budget/planning meeting which is days of discussions, budgets, long term
strategy and team building because the team comes from five different districts. We don’t ALL get together that often. I don’t
like long days of meetings but I understand the necessity. The upside was
that having some extra vets around enabled me to get my pets some needed medical
care. My cat, the one that kills snakes,
had cancer in his eye and it needed to be removed. Also, the dog that I’m caring
for from Beckie and Ruudy needed to be spayed.
But here, Malaria is far more fatal, and the clinics and hospital’s
already limited resources are overwhelmed, diagnosis is hit and miss, treatment
options are antiquated, and people are not treated based on their need but on
their ability to pay.
The good news for me is that I have access to rapid tests that the
majority of this country doesn’t have so I caught it early and have the most
current treatment options in the house. Between that and bedrest (don’t worry
mom, today is the first day I’ve been out of bed more than an hour at a time!) Tylenol and
Gatorade I managed. But I still probably should have had someone start an iv wednesday
night and am going to spend the next month trying to get my Hbg back over 7.
Anyway, that is what is going on in my life right now.
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