No luggage :(

Tuesday 08.02.11

Tammi was off at 7am to go to the airport.  A couple of hours later she rang me to say that the luggage hadn’t even arrived yet and was arriving tonight, meaning she has to go back in the morning to sign the papers, and again tomorrow night to pick up the luggage.  This whole thing is getting to be ridiculous and now we are going to be stuck in Nairobi for a while instead of just a day or two.  On the positive side it means we can sort out a new plan for Zac and try to find him some better care today or tomorrow.

When Tammi returned to the hotel we headed off to the hospital to see how Zac was.  To our astonishment he was looking a lot better.  He was off the oxygen (though he seemed as though he still needed it a bit) and his one eye was open and alert.  The huge abcess over his other eye is preventing him from opening it but we sighted some doctor’s notes and it appears that they are planning to take him to theatre to drain it.  Hopefully this will be the last of his hurdles.

We didn’t really get very far in organising a transfer to another hospital for Zac, as everybody tell you to see somebody else.  We spoke to the nurses, doctors and social workers and neither of them were willing to help much.  We will give it another shot in the morning tomorrow.

When we finally got home I realised I was exhausted and had a half hour snooze.  Even Tammi slept for a couple of hours!  We had an early dinner - their lentil stew is amazing!  I even tried the local alcoholic cider called ‘Redds’ which is made in Tanzania, and it was surprisingly good!

That evening Morris rang, to say that unfortunately the luggage had not arrived on tonight’s flight so there was little point coming in tomorrow morning.  You should have seen poor Tammi’s face - she is so angry!  Morris will keep an eye out for the luggage but in the meantime we will head back to Mombasa, as we don’t really have the money to stay any longer at Khweza.  We then watched a DVD and called it a night.