We went to the CLIDE office early for devotions then had a full day of
surgeries, 4 cats and 5 dogs. Melissa,
the Aussie vet student, worked with Liz all day. Melissa is very enthusiastic about doing
everything, especially surgeries, so Liz enjoyed mentoring her through several
procedures. She also installed all the
IV catheters. Good thing Liz brought her
trusty headlamp as the power went out for a while during the thunder and
lightening storm. The rain and wind
brought much appreciated cooling as it has been very hot and humid here.
We are staying in Val’s house is Soroti which is in much
need of many repairs. Andy is going to
start on the plumbing as neither sink, tub, shower or hot water heater work and
most of what does work leaks. We have
been taking cold ‘cup’ showers in the wash room. His first project today, after diagnosing
some of the problems, is to build a ladder so he can get into the attic where
some of the plumbing is located. Beware
of bat guano and ticks!!!! Dr. Val told
us a great tick horror story tonight.
Many bats live in the attic and harbor large numbers of ticks. When she arrived here back from the states in
May she noticed as soon as the dogs entered the house that they had a lot of
ticks on them. Then she noticed ticks
all over the floor around the dogs. She
thought “that is really quickly for the ticks to fall off the dogs.” Then she sat on the sofa and noticed movement
on the walls. There were thousands of
ticks pouring out of the attic and down the walls in search of the warm bodies
they sensed in the house. She tried
sweeping up the ticks but they just kept coming. She sprayed the walls with insecticide and
they kept coming. Finally she had to
abandon the house for a period of time till the ‘tick bloom’ was over. Tomorrow batman is coming to help Andy deal
with the problem.
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