A weekend of dramas

It has been quite the weekend for us. On Friday I got a call from the Principal at Joshua's school to say that he wasn't very well. I went and picked him up and brought him home. Before long he was suffering from fevers and headaches. The sight of him brought back vivid memories of when he had cerebral malaria. We did a malaria test but it was negative. However, I put him on some malaria treatment just in case (was worried about a faulty test kit). Anyway by the next day he was still suffering from fevers so Simon took him to the Dr's in the afternoon. (I had a difficult job holding Zara down for an IV injection so there was no way I was going to be able to hold Joshua down if he needed an injection....it was Dad's turn) He was so worked up about going to the Dr's as he thought what happened to Zara (injections and IV's) would happen to him. Finally we got him in the car. When he got down to the Dr's they found out that he had a severe case of tonsilitus. This particular Dr is not all that compassionate (a good Dr though especially for tropical illnesses) but he did think Joshua was quite perky considering the severity of the tonsilitus. He is now on antibiotics three times a day and seems back to his normal self. Praise the Lord for modern medicine.

Well if that wasn't enough adventures for the weekend we also had a flat tyre coming back from the airport. We picked my Mum up at Entebbe on Saturday morning and three quarters of the way along the main road we picked up a nail which did a decent job of puncturing our tyre. I was so thankful that Simon was there as the tyres on our car are so big and heavy its difficult to lift them. The tyre is now in the shop getting fixed. Africa is great nothing goes to waste and most things can be fixed.

That was Saturday's adventure. On Sunday after returning from Church we were rear ended by a saloon car. Thankfully we were all fine although the car that rear ended us was a right off. Thankfully we were on a main road so there was plenty of Police around to help deal with the situation. The passenger of the vehicle hit his head off the window as he wasn't wearing a seat belt. Simon gave the driver some money to take this man to the hospital for a check up. The man was grateful that we weren't going to press charges although he did try and ask Simon for money to fix his car. I don't think even in Africa the car would be able to be fixed. It looked like it had hit a brick wall. We were just grateful that it happened at a slow speed and no-one was hurt badly. You will understand now why we ask for prayers when we drive on the roads here in Uganda....they are crazy :)