Progress....

Things move along... We have a clinic to send our patients for x-ray, talked to the radiologist yesterday. We visited a couple patients this morning that haven't improved though it looks like they are TB negative.... Hard to guess what these patients need.

Being in their homes is so insightful- helps put together their social situation influencing their health.

Seems- as we heard yesterday- that one positive AFB (TB) result out of 40 is not so unusual or rare. Many people can have negative AFB smears even if they have TB for a number of reasons including their status. The chest x-rays should be a bit more telling. We had a good talk with the lab yesterday that is doing the AFB tests- the man we talked to seemed very sharp!!

Brian and I have been married one month today! Amazing. Was is just a month ago we were at that beautiful ranch all dressed up staring at each other? And we've been to Mexico, back to California, to Egypt, and then on to Ethiopia in the meantime??? With a trip to Langano in there are well???

We love our place in the Augusta neighborhood of Addis. It is so big and roomy! Its been fun thinking of having people over, or just having a fire and a cup of tea the two of us.