Bangladesh Bound

Just trying to see how easy it is to post pictures in here from Picassa - it's pretty easy!

So here is our crew at Commonwealth!

Today is Friday - and today Emma went home. :) She had a good night at the emergency clinic and ate well for me this morning - she peed and went number two - all that was required of her. So, I sent her home with tail wagging and proud papa smiling. :) I'm pretty sure that her vet was smiling a little bit, too. :) amazing. :)

Today is one of those days I want to remember. And due to the requests that I keep blogging - I thought this venue would do just fine for recording today's events. Actually, today started yesterday.... I saw a patient named Emma - she's an 8 year old female chocolate lab. She was injured in an accident (HBC - Hit By Car) the last week of January. She had some bumps and bruises, but recovered fine. But over the last 2 weeks or so, she's been losing weight, losing her energy, not eating with Gusto. According to her owner: "she's just not Emma." I examined her yesterday and knew pretty quickly what was going on. When she was bumped back in January - it was most likely with some force. Sometimes, a large amount of force in the abdominal cavity can cause a rip to occur in the diaphragm. This poses no immediate risk (usually) but over time things start to migrate into the chest that don't belong there. When I took an x-ray of her yesterday, I could se...

This is Holly and I in our Sharees! 

Loving the USA ...And all of it's technical wonders. I can't BELIEVE how FAST this computer works. It has been an extreme lesson in patience waiting to use the computers in Bangladesh - you just have no idea how long it took to get to this page so I could write to you all! But, it was so worth it to have you along on the journey - thanks so much for staying with me - reading everyday and praying for us! We certainly were beneficiaries of your faithfulness, for we feel that we were used by God - both in a physical and spiritual way. Since the jet lag is decreasing, I'm going to attempt to write a coherent summary of those last few days - and of my feelings about the whole experience that was 3 1/2 weeks in Bangladesh. :) Ok, so actually it's now Monday - I have been a delinquent blogger - just trying to catch up with folks and adjust back to this time zone. Haven't been able to sleep well through the night (though did pretty good last night) - my body still th...

Just wanted to say that I'm in the U.S. - after a very, very, very long day. 36 hours. I am still functioning to some extent, too. :) We had a major delay in Dhaka - so our flight left THREE HOURS late - making it impossible for Holly and I to make our connection in London to fly to Chicago. I begged and pleaded and batted my eyelashes and got a flight to D.C. tonight. Matt picked me up at Dulles - Holly is still in London. :( But she'll fly out in the morning. All is well. I have cereal. :) Shower and sleep. I'll write tomorrow.

So we just had lunch with Prodip and the WC staff - it was our last lunch here. They made us a special meal - shrimp. :( I'm allergic to shrimp and Holly doesn't like it. Oh, well! We also had Mutton and veggies and rice and the usual Bangla food. Everything is fried in oil - they don't have ovens - I can't WAIT for raw veggies and baked food!!! (Remember how I commented that I liked the veggies here? That's because they are fried!!!) We are wearing our Sharees today - we did manage to get them on ourselves - but as soon as we got to the office we got 'adjusted.' :) Prodip loves us in them!!! We went to a Monghul fort built in the 1600's yesterday - built by a guy named Shasta Kahn - made me think of Disney's 'Mulan.' Very interesting stuff - I wrote you all about it - but it went 'poof.' We also visited the Bangladesh National Museum yesterday - it was very good. Wrote lots about that too.... I made a HUGE list of odds-n...

I just typed the same blog - twice - 45 minutes of typing EACH - and they are BOTH gone. Power failures are bad things. I don't have the heart to do it again. It was really good, too! so sad....