JT Grade DVM, PhD
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Sunday, March 4, 2012
Friday, March 2, 2012
construction
We have (God willing) a volunteer team coming this Spring to help us finish our last building project: the KACHEP meeting room. We’ve already dug the foundation trenches (hired them to be dug) and we’ve bought and placed the twisted rebar. Now we’re waiting for a truckload of cement to arrive from Mbale and pour cement. The soil around the one meter foundation whole has an ever-growing crack so we really need to get it poured before it collapses with the rains that have started. When the team comes, we can lay stone and (hopefully) finish it – it will be 8 meters (external) from end to end, oval, like the ‘stone house’ with half-walls all around except for one end with a storeroom (taking 2 m from the internal measure – thus, 5 m from end to storeroom door) – the exciting thing about this is (drum roll), we’re doing it all ourselves – pray long and hard
Tom
Tom
Few more days on meds
On Sunday I got all my blood tests back- all were almost within normal limits. My fevers and nausea have gone, and my stability is much improved- although my ankle is still tender. Really the only thing is that I'm still weak and terribly sleepy. I sleep at least 17 hours daily. Miriam had the same sleepiness when she was on 200mg doxycycline for her brucellosis last year. Three days after she stopped, she got her energy back. We're hoping for the same response next week after I finish.
Meanwhile Tom and the team is in Northern Karamoja finalizing the land and handing in the last paperwork tomoro morning. Next step is to get building materials- dirt/clay, poles and grass. Long dry thatch is proving to be the most difficult to find as most of it has been burnt off.
Thanks for your prayers
J
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