Quick update
Posted By Sika on July 28, 2007
Many of you already know, but I am on Medical hold in Pretoria right now, waiting for surgery on Monday. This is surgery to do correctly what was missed the last time I had surgery. Which is not to say that the last surgeon did the job badly, as it apparently can be difficult to do well, but he did do it wrong–I’m not sure the distinction I’m trying to make makes sense, but I really don’t feel like trying to explain any more.
Anyway, Pretoria is lovely and I’m in a nice B&B with my mama who paid approximately a gajillion dollars to come and be with me during surgery and while I heal (I haven’t actually asked how much the ticket was because I don’t want to know.) And she brought the new HP (which Shannon bought and was going to fed ex to me until mom bought her ticket and then she express mailed it to mom instead, so yay!) which I managed to get through without reading ahead even once. Mandy and Annie have already claimed first read when I get back to Malawi–assuming they’re still in the transit house in Lilongwe when I get back, which I actually assume they won’t be since I’m probably going to be in Pretoria for 3 weeks or so. And she also brought powercords for my computer which is good because the wires in the old one broke and I haven’t been able to use my computer for ages. Also she took me shopping and I feel particularly spoiled today.
I missed swearing-in and they wouldn’t let me do my language proficiency interview before I left; I asked Edith to send one of the interviewers to my hospital room in Malawi, but she wouldn’t and said that Cornelius will get me back up to speed when I get back to Malawi. I keep trying to speak Chichewa here though, because it’s already a habit and also because many of the languages around here are also Bantu languages and so there are words that are very similar even though the language is different. I went to the dinner at the country director’s house, which was nice because there was ice cream (our priorities strangely revolve around dairy products after 2 months in country). I wasn’t sure that I wanted to go to the dinner, but Anna and some others didn’t give me the option, which was nice and I had a good time.
As long as I’m all healed up in 45 days and back in Malawi, I’ll be fine and be able to move to Zomba and start work there. I have lots of ideas about the kind of work I want to do in Zomba, based on my experience of 5 days in hospital in Malawi. I’ll write more about that later.
Anyway, I’m going to take advantage of the wireless here to upload my millions of photos that I have yet to put on flickr, so you can go look at them and tell me how awesome all my photos are tomorrow. 
*hugs and happy healing thoughts*
I’m totally out of the loop, but I am glad you’ve got your mom with you and I hope you heal quick!
I am totally out of the loop too, I am not sure what the surgery is for, but I’ll keep you in my thoughts for a quick recovery. Glad your mama is there.
Take care. <3
What? What? What? Surgery?
Much hugs and goodwill sent your way!
*sending you much happy healing vybes*
I hope you have a successful surgery and a swift and easy recovery!
I’m glad too, and I’m super extra glad my mom is here with me, even if she is a little gimpy (She has an aircast ’cause she sprained her ankle)
Eh it’s long and complicated but not major and not really interesting. Thanks! I have 45 days from last thursday to get all better–and hopefully it will take far far less than that.
Yeah, I know, except I tend more towards the what? what? surgery in AFRICA? end of things.
I am loving the icon and wondering why vibes has a y in it.
Thanks!
“Vybes” is one of my few concessions to the neopagan-raver-burner trend of using alternate spellings, especially of spiritually significant words (e.g. “magick”) to signify “Yes, this word sounds like another word you know, but it does not mean quite the same thing”. Plus, I think it looks neat.