Medical evacuation

No, three weeks are not up. Yes, we are back from the survey. Bonnie, our team leader got a nastily infected cut on her ankle, and on Thursday, after she also got a fever, we came back to Ukarumpa. Yesterday (Saturday) she was medivaced to Australia. The antibiotics weren’t working and the infection had spread quite a way up her leg. The doctors here thought maybe the infection is in the bone. Haven’t heard any more news.

We think the her leg got cut on a long hike last Friday when there were quite a few leeches biting and doing their thing, and a lot of scratches and cuts from just hiking through the bush.

Never seen leeches in action before. I got a few on my feet. They really don’t come off once they start sucking your blood. Seriously! They’re small and slimy and you have to repeatedly scrape them off with your fingernail or a knife or something...they’re determined suckers (hehehe).

Ok, enough for today.

So it’s back to the office. I may start to analyse the data we got from this survey. Though from Monday to Wednesday, I’m helping out at strategy workshops. Maybe more on those next time.

Thanks for your prayers for Bonnie.