Where Have I Been?

Well, many of you that read my blog, probably already kknow that the last 3 weeks have not been good ones. I will write a very long entry once I return to the United States this coming Sunday. That's right, it is with great sadness that I am having to leave Kenya earlier than planned. However, that just means that I will be coming back all the sooner.

To make a long story short, I continued to have problems with seizures. Then, I had the wonderful opportunity of being in Kisumu the day that the election violence broke out and the downtown was looted and partially burned. Ben the driver and I were hold up in a hotel where we watched the building across the alley burn and such. Then it was back to the farm where we had additional violence in the Bungoma area.

One day, I went into a series of seizures -- 7 in all and was taken to St. Mary's Hospital for an overnight stay. The Flying Doctors airlifted me out the next morning and I went off to Nairobi Hospital for a 10 day stay. I think it was 3 days in ICU and 2 days in the step down unit, but will have to confirm that with Geri. An induced coma finally stopped the seizing and so I am resting up in a hotel this week. I am slowly learning how close I came to not making it. Had they not been able to stop the seizures with the 24 hour coma, then it would have been a 5 day induced coma. Fun, fun, fun.

Poor Geri has been a great friend and suffered through the actions that I had no idea were occurring. My brother Bill was on the other end of daily phone calls. As I said, I will write much more next week from my home in Portland. There were actually some comedic moments within all of the mess.