Tuesday 28 August 2007

Prayers would be appreciated

The last couple of days have been a little challenging. Leanne has had some health problems. The hospital down the road from here were great, but sent her on to a specialist in Kampala [he's Japanese!]. Maddy, Katherine Brown and her are there now, and have stayed there over night [the journey is only 60 miles but there are so many potholes it is not a pleasant journey and can take over 2 hours]. The medical support has been brilliant, a good number of tests have been done, which have all come back negative. Ugandans first reaction to any illness is that it is Malaria [you have a cut on your toe? better test for malaria!] - so you will be pleased to know she doesn't she definitely doesn't have that! Still she is not fully fit and we all would appreciate prayers. We are not sure how it will affect the end of the trip, as we may have to adjust plans for returning Leanne. Not quite the end of the trip we had planned!

Leanne spoke to her parents last night, and that cheered her up a fair bit :o).

Sorry this is really vague, but i am not really the medical one! As you can imagine Maddy has come into her element and she has been impressed with the care they have received [Leanne think its beats the General!].

UPDATE:

Rather than transport Leanne back up here in order to go back down again the next day or so, we have decided to leave Maddy and Leanne in Kampala for another night, and for the team to leave New Hope a day early to be with them. Katherine is not back yet because her and Maddy have been working hard to communicate with the insurance company to ensure all costs are covered. For some reason emails and faxes have not been working!? Part of the insurance company enquiry is to consider the doctors suggestion that our laborious journey home with 8 hours at Dubai airport would not be the best for Leanne. There is a direct BA flight on certain days of the week. The policy says it covers her flight back plus a companion. Will update more later. Mark.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thankyou for the update on leanne. We really appreciate it. Leanne sounded quite cheerfull last night. although it would be nice to have her back home, we are hoping that it doesnt ruin the end of anybodys trip. Thankyou for taking care of her!!!
love to all from the Thacker family x x x

jo clifford said...

hi mark ...

it's Jo, if any help is needed to pick people up then please let us know... we are praying for you ... and are more than happy to help .. and available any time this week

God bless you all

Jo xxx