Like I mentioned in the previous post, we kind of sort of really got down "with our bad selves" on Saturday night. Melissa Sevy, (who is pictured in several of the last post's pictures) hurt her foot while dancing.
On Sunday morning, I gave her a piggy back ride to find a motorcycle taxi which she took and met Jace and I at the taxi park on our way to Jinja to attend church. Having arived in Jinja, we helped her to the church building.
After the second hour of church, I was walking to the third and final hour when a woman approached me with her cell phone saying "it's for you"
Confused, I answered and found Melissa on the other end. She proceeded to tell me that she was in a health clinic. She had just gotten an X ray and they were about to put a cast on her foot. Her dancing the previous night resulted in a broken meta tarsal (or something like that... a foot bone basically... give me a break, I'm studying public administration not anatomy)
This is the face of someone who leaves church by herself, (with a broken foot) hops to the road, flags down a motorcycle taxi and rides it several blocks before hopping to check herself into a health clinic in Africa without telling anybody. Melissa Sevy..... you're a wildwoman.
Melissa getting her cast
Melissa, Jace, and the docs
Me playing on Melissa's new crutches. While we waited initially for the doctor, they had already measured Melissa and a wood worker was busy making custom crutches for her. Pretty cool.
Easy does it
"hey Melissa, who is the most awesome dude in the whole world? Go ahead and point with your crutches. "
Okay it didn't happen like that but hey... this is my blog... I can caption pictures how I want right?
Time to go home
Riding back home to Lugazi with her foot out the window of the taxi van
Back in Lugazi, walkin home
Lane , Gimpy (I mean Melissa), and Jace
Neighborhood friend coming to show sympathy for Melissa. Hugs from cute grubby little neighborhood children make all the broken bones feel better.
Almost home.
From all of us Americans and wild dancers..... Melissa Sevy...We solute you
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