Leprosy Village!

Sorry for not writing the post yesterday. Yesterday was quite random and unpredictable. It's very complicated.

Picture uploading is very slow and unbearable, as the internet here is not the most advanced. Facebook but does a pretty good job of uploading photos, so If you really do wish to see them, go on my FB pictures and take a look at it! (I assume mostly my friends will look at these posts)

But today was a very interesting day! Very memorable indeed.

With 6 of my favorite British "Uni" students, we took a taxi to the leprosy village to take care of about 10 patients ranging from having mild to severe cases of leprosy.

Their feet were all deformed, many times round and almost without toes (at least not noticeable). Many had a large wound on their feet and we used hydrogen peroxide, iodine to treat the patients. Stench was obviously very distinguishable, but when one needs to do his job, everything else becomes less important, so the smell wasn't a big problem.

When we treated all the patients and wrapped the wounds with clean coverings, the patients all said "Arc-Pay," thank you in Ewe, the local language in Ho, Ghana. Of course, we wouldn't just send them back cold, so we gave each of them a set of vitamins and painkillers.

After the job was done, we came back to our headquarters for an interesting lunch. Mysterious spicy spinach-egg cuisine. The first sight turned off many people's appetites, but after they tried a bite, the large bowl in a matter of minutes emptied.

Our afternoon was quite hectic to be honest. If you had read the last post, I mentioned that Chris (the bad kebab eater) was in the local hospital. Well, he wasn't getting any better so he decided to take the plane to London tonight. We all knew that he was very sick and had to make that choice. Our planned orphanage visit was postponed to next week and we said our final goodbyes to Chris.

I don't know if I said this in the other post or not, but my cough is getting worse over time. I don't feel sick at all. No fever or flu symptoms. I took a variety of medicines, Ghanaian, American, British, and even Romanian! All for the purpose of softening coughs. Nothing worked for me. Im starting to think the suspect is allergy, but I am not really sure of it. We'll see how I feel tomorrow, and decide what to do from there.