Julie and Liz did 18 surgeries today.
There seems to be an endless supply of them. We ran out of vaccines (brought 100 doses of
each) and are close to running out of flea and ticks meds. All the animals have lots of fleas and ticks
and often lice. We have seen a number of
cases of TVT (transmissible venereal tumor).
Surprisingly Kadafi and Osama are popular dog names, not surprisingly so
are Simba and Rocket. Most notably we
got done just before dark! Our helpers
decided to limit the number of people and dogs in the compound and have the
rest wait outside. That was extremely
helpful. We prayed with each group as
they came in and did not feel as overwhelmed as the day before. There was no school today either so there
were lots of children watching surgery.
Andy has been starting on projects on the ‘compound’ here as
the concrete projects are not going to work due to $$. He is making progress but had to deal with a
CLIDE member trying to ‘help’. Let’s
see; he succeeded in bending most of the nails, breaking off the screw and
nothing was square. Andy was very
patient.
Tomorrow is Ugandan Independence Day and this is a special
one. It was 50 years ago that Uganda
obtained its independence from Britain. Most officials have gone to Kampala
for the big celebration. Here they plan
to have an all night singing and prayer service at St. Mark’s then a regular
service at 7:30 in the morning. We joined the festivities for about an hour
then went off to bed. We heard them
singing and ululating well into the night.
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