Update on Justine’s surgery
Went to hospital in Afagnan, Simon and I and Vialley (who we asked to come stay at the hospital with Justine since Simon and I are not free to do so) waited for SIX HOURS , then Justine got handed a piece of paper and was told that she needed to go to Lome and BUY BLOOD at the blood bank and bring it herself back to Afagnan before Friday, then she herself will come back on Saturday and the surgery is scheduled for Monday.
“You know in AMERICA normal hospitals have their own blood on stock,” I hissed at the hospital personnel. “What are we supposed to do now? Ma yi asime, ma ple blood ? » (I’m going to the market and I’m going to buy blood ) « This is the fishiest thing I’ve ever heard. Afagnan is so far away and we spent so much money to come here today and now you want us to come back again? Fiafitowo. Ma no fia. Miapkoda.”
“Maybe we shouldn’t insult the doctors,” whispered Justine.
“Well, seriously, they couldn’t have told us this before? You could have just come by yourself today and Vialley and I would have come next week when the surgery and now we’re all just going back to village now? It’s so anticlimatic. Look , I even made you a get well package with coloring books and French books and Uno and playing cards…”
So now… don’t even know if she and Vialley will be back from the hospital before I leave Togo!!! Justine is in Lome now searching for the blood and has found it and is in Afagnan now, don’t know if she has left yet after successfully depositing it. I’m frustrated because of the day we wasted yesterday and of the change in dates and also because I don’t know if I will free to go again to Afagnan…
OH TOGO TOGO .
(“Well,” I said later to Justine, who was very discouraged, “the good thing is I was here cause I’m not sure I would have believed you if I was in the States and you called me to tell me you needed to buy your own blood.”)
This is the last time I will be in Lome (i hope!!) before I leave village for good on the 28th. I will leave village early on the 28th, and complete formalities with Peace Corps on the 28th and 29th.
New phone number…
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