Day-5: @Kisumu-Sabatia Eye Clinic.

 @Sabatia Eye Hospital Kenya

06:30.

I had my morning devotion and woke the rest of the team up for our morning meditation and prayer.

It was such a fresh morning and the sweet smell of wet soil, and vegetation was saturated the living room where we sat. It rained heavily the night before and we were delighted to have some less turbid water for bath this morning. Abel had adjusted to the horror of splashing coffee colored water on his skin and is doing quite well at it.

We were joined by Peter, Max and Jeff, all young pastors who take care of us and of our needs. They have come to help us with our morning preparations, to boil our bathing water, provide us with any extra needs and to take our cloths to the ladies to wash-I thought of my white shirts in that water and quickly whiped it off my mind.

We assembled at the pastors house for brake fast and were delighted to see that the whole team were there waiting for us to come. We all sat down for brakefast, and it delighted Pablo and Abel to enjoy tea time with the church member and to crack jokes and ask questions while we enjoyed our meals.

Pablo noted that naturally the people were all silent and he had asked me the first night if something was wrong, and I responded that children are raised here not to talk while eating to avoid chocking on the food, and that it is bad manners to talk with a full mouth (I guess it is everywhere)

Qualitative Eye Treatment.

We took the Patients for the eye clinic in the bus and went around trying to track other people on our Medical list of last year who are yet to be treated; some of them are going for cataract operations. It was such a tough undertaking finding them notwithstanding that they have all been contacted prior to this time and informed it was just hard getting them. Some of them live in very unaccesible places while others were just not reachable at the time. Two people we realised have died withing the past few months.

We had a total of 16 persons in the bus including Dalton our adopted son, who was diagnosed last year with some eye problem that we hope to address squarely this time around.

11:00

We left Bodi and headed for Kisumu arriving @13:10, we went through the Banking district to change some forex against possible medical expenses.

We left Kisumu for sabati as we went through this lovely region, I quietly drank in the serenity and beauty of the landscape and felt Gods peace washing all over me.

The roads were quite narrow and I got the impression that the vehicles moved a tad too fast for such roads and conditions but at anyrate we made it safely to the Friends Church Clinic at Sabati

15:30 @ Friends Church Clinic, Sabati.

Friends Eye Hospital Sabatia

I learned this is the best eye Clinic in the region hence we have come such long way to be seen here.

The personnel were so friendly and nice, yet quite profesional and efficient, for hardly had we arrived and they were already attending to our patients, preparing those with more serious eye problem for extensive examinations and possible surgeries.

The clinic is beautifully build and tended, the lawns are green and the flowers fresh and lovely giving of a very positive healing effect. The total ambiance was quite tranquil and peaceful.

A serving of Tilapia and Ugali 

After all our patients have undergone treatments, we bought the prescribed drugs and eye glasses from the clinic, 3 of them have to return at a future date to continue treatments. I am quite satisfied with the progress made so far and our friends and delighted too.

One patient is 19 year old boy whose life ambition is threatened by his eye problems, he wants to be a doctor and is bright enough to actualize that goal,but his sight had made the challenge even harder.

The other one is a 16year old girl who wants to be a Journalist and News presenter, and is quite determined to pursue her life's ambition if her sight would let her. I promised to find her a female mentor to help mold her dreams.

After the treatments we headed back towards Kisumu.

Tilapia Fish Restaurant

We went to the Lake side shack restaurant, where we had had such wonderful servings of Tilapia fish, and this year we got such wonderful deal and quality; for 200Ksh we had a plate of ledge size fish and ugali (the local dough made of corn mill)

After our late lunch we went to Tursky Super Market to buy some provisions for ourselves and for some families we want to bless.

Dalton Shopping for Toys

It was Daltons Day Out and he went wild in the toy section, I was delighted to see just how delighted he was to see so much fun and to think that he could have some of them. It was his first time shoping at the mall and it made a huge impact on him

20:30.

Dalton @Lake Victoria

We left Kisumu for Bodi and the driver drove like an ex-F1 driver, I simply focused on my iBook and tried not to think of what was happening on the road in front of me since there was pretty little I that I can do about it, I tried to sooth Dalton whom I had to carry on my legs all the time because otherwise we would have had problems with the police at the ubiquitous post on the roads.

It was late by the standards of this place and the roads were pitch black, I had confidence that God will keep us safe and protect us from any harms or terror of the underworld.

We approached a police post and met some officers, who are known to our friends, we took them as escorts till we came to the road junction that will take us off the main road unto the dust tracks that leads back to Bodi.

I breathed easy because we are off the area of potential risks and that we have let go of those two with fully loaded sub-machine guns in our vehicle.

Shortly after this it started to drizzle and eventually rain heavily, making the roads tricky to drive on especially since we have to ascend some 70º+ on rugged muddy tracks, and I was not so sure of the conditions of the tyres. I kept my heart strong in silent prayer even when the propeller shaft started to make some racky noise. In the end and through it all we made it gingerly but safely home to the other side

22:30

We were soaked and hungry and had some very hot chocolate and milk before we went to our quarter