Most unfairly, it’s not always fun and
games in Casa del Crow, and this past 2-3 weeks have been unusually tough. Firstly there’s been sadness in spades, with
the loss of one dear colleague’s eldest son in a road traffic accident,
followed soon after by the sudden death (after being unwell for 3 weeks, but
then seemingly being on the mend) of another dear colleague.
In addition, it has been a time of
transition regarding the staff here at our church in Uganda, and some good friends and
colleagues have disappointed us and saddened us in their behaviour.
We’ve also had some health issues to deal
with, which necessitated a trip to Kampala (never our favourite place to visit)
to get a scan of Sarah’s breast. Luckily
all seems to be well, although we may need to carry out some further tests
(which may require Sarah to be brave – always a tall order!).
The Baby Unit has been going through quite a
bit of turmoil recently, but we had a good meeting this week and came to
some agreements, one of which is assigning a new Head Nurse for the Baby Unit,
Cathy. Having a good head nurse will be
crucial in ensuring that things are done well, so we feel very blessed to have
Cathy on our team.
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| New Baby Unit Head Nurse Cathy |
We know that the Unit is saving lives, and
even just this last week, we successfully resuscitated a baby who refused to
start breathing for the first 15 minutes after being born. This confirms to me that the Baby Unit MUST
continue to work, and to work well.
On a lighter note, after much deliberation,
and much enjoyment at reading all your wonderful suggestions, we have decided
on two rather splendid names for our rather splendid chickens. For all you 90s music fans.... come on, there
must be at least 3 or 4 of you???.... we are delighted to introduce you to the
two newest members of the Crow clan.... MR LOVER MAN and SHABBA. We hope that choosing non-female names will not
influence these chickens to emulate the unfortunately transformation to
masculinity experienced by Texas Pete, but if it does.... well, you all know
what will happen (chicken and chips! Yum
yum!)
ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE!
A return to our previous series of seeing
the silver linings...
(1) Someone
kindly offers to bless you by cleaning your car. However, he neglects to mention that in
doing so he will crash your car into the side of the garage, wrenching and snapping the bull bar, and prompting a trip to see the mechanic!! However,
on the bright side.... it means we discovered that our rear brakes and shock absorbers were in dangerous condition and needed to be replaced – handy since we were about to
embark on a long journey to Kampala!
(2) You
arrive at the doctor’s after a 3 ½ hour road journey, only to be told that
the radiologist is off all week. However, on the bright side... a scan
was performed quickly by a technician, and was given to us for free...
leaving us with extra money to buy a nice burger lunch and enabling us to
escape Kampala that day rather than staying for the night.
(3) You are
informed that the power will be off every Friday, Saturday and Sunday all
day for the next NINE months!! However, on the bright side, it may mean that our bills
(ludicrously high, since the thrice weekly washing of copious amounts of stinky reusable nappies) may be a
little less! And hey, the power
comes back each night, enabling us to do the “wahey, the power’s back” dance
many more times than previously.
(4) You
return to Uganda to find that the internet, previously quite quick, is now
madness-inducingly slow. However, on the bright side.... on the
bright side.... sigh..... nope, I got nothin’!
