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My foot is going to fall off!!! – Friday August 6, 2010

So I had these couple of mosquito bites from over the weekend, that were really quite intense.  They itched terribly and they got all scraped up and the next thing I know its this big kind of scabbed up, kind of open wound.  It didn’t really hurt for the first few days and it would start to scab up but then at the end of each day it seemed like it would open up again.  Then the past couple of days half of it was healing but half was open and oozing and the whole top of my Foot hurt really badly, especially when I was walking, which is like all of the time.

Then last night, it just poured all night long and then today has followed suit.  There are puddles of dirty water everywhere and its just constantly wet because it keeps raining on and off.  Some of the Thai staff here saw my foot and made me go to their office where they have a first aid cabinet.  They cleaned it a little and added some iodine, alcohol solution to clean it and they P’Nu, the director of Mirror, told me that she wanted me to go to the local clinic in the afternoon to get it cleaned better and then they would clean it at Mirror for the rest of the time, till it heals.  But in the meantime I needed to stay out of the rain and keep it as clean as possible.  So needless to say, I couldn’t really work outdoors today, so instead I sat in the office and stayed off of my foot.

After lunch, we were going into town to talk to two different villages about coming to their Village tomorrow to sell the second-hand clothes we’ve been sorting all week.  So before we got to the villages, we stopped at the clinic for my foot.  It was the biggest waste of time.  The woman immediately treated me like I was unimportant and then took a cotton swab with water and quickly rubbed it over the area, not really cleaning it at all and then released me.  She said that it was fine and just clean it and don’t cover it cause it’s too wet.  Then she gave me a bottle of iodine, some gauze, and cotton swabs and charged me 50 baht!  We had all those supplies already at Mirror, I didn’t need them but I like didn’t have a choice she just thrust them upon me and I had to pay!  Luckily it was only really a dollar and a half, but it was still just a waste!  And it still hurt really bad!

Afterward we went onto the first village, Bonjoi, a Lahu tribe.  We discovered that Saturday was a working day for them and that they wouldn’t have a lot of people in the village so we should only send a couple of people there tomorrow.  The next village was very enthusiastic though.  They said there would be a lot of people around and joked around with Serchai saying that we should skip the other village and just come to theirs!

We then went to a Temple nearby, that was still under construction, before heading back to Mirror.  The Temple was beautiful.  It was more of a Chinese design than a Thai though.  There were steps that led all the way up to the top of the temple, eventually leading to a narrow winding staircase to the top most level.  The views from the top were beautiful.  They stretched out so far that you could see the clouds meeting the mountains in the distance.

The Temple we visited.

Chandeliers in the temple.

Buddha in the Temple.

Me at the temple.

The beautiful views.

The beautiful views.

The beautiful views.

The dragon at the entrance to the temple.

When we returned to Mirror, Serchai thoroughly cleaned my wound.  I mean thoroughly, which is really good, but it was also really painful.  That pain then continued on for hours.  I literally could not walk or stand or even sit without pain surging through my foot.

After showering and watching some of the indoor volunteers record songs for a song movie to aid in teaching, I went up to the kitchen with the group of them for dinner.  When we got there, there was no food.  I was so mad.  I paid to live at Mirror and with that I am supposed to get a place to sleep and 3 meals a day.  We went to dinner at 6pm, but apparently the food had been gone since around 5!  That’s just not okay.  Especially when we live so far out from the actual city of Chiang Rai.  There were about 12 of us that didn’t get food tonight.  I know I needed to be accepting because things like this happen, but it just all built together for me.

I was already having a rough day, and I was pretty emotional today as it was, so that just made me really angry and I couldn’t help myself when I just started to cry.  It’s not that I felt bad for myself or anything, I was just really frustrated.  And all I really needed was to be alone and to cry so I could get it out of my system and then I knew I would be okay.

Everyone was going into town to get dinner, so I decided to stay and just have some quiet time here.  I was sitting in the office when Zoe walked in and immediately picking up on my mood, came over and started to cheer me up.  He gave me a hug and then started to talk to me and make me laugh as he usually does.  His happiness is contagious and he really cares about others and does everything he can do to make other people happy around him.  He has a really big heart and a beautiful soul.  He then took my foot and redressed it really nicely with this ointment that he went to go get for me.  Then he went to the kitchen and made me dinner with his own food.

It was the nicest thing.  He brought me an egg and tomato and cucumber sandwich but it was unlike anything I had ever had and it was so good!  He also brought me warm milk, which was something I had never tried before, but was so comforting.

We just sat there and talked while I ate my dinner, which was a long time, since anyone who knows me, knows that I eat very slowly!  After I did finish though, he took my foot and placed it up on his leg where he performed this healing technique that he was learning about.  He just cupped his hands around my foot and held them there for what was probably a good 15 minutes and was warming my foot.  I wasn’t exactly sure what it was he was doing, but he just said he was sending love into it.  Well, whatever it was, it worked.  The whole rest of the night, my foot did not hurt like it had, and I could walk on it reasonably well.

So I spent the next couple of hours reading ‘The Alchemist’ as I lay on my bed.  I got a little more than half way through when everyone had started to get back from town.  Sarah had come into the dorm and came to my bed with a take out box of Pad-Thai.  Even though I had said I didn’t want anything from town, she still brought me back something.  It was so heartwarming.  Sarah is another one of those people with a huge heart and is really an incredible friend!

Later on in the night I ventured back to the office where Stacy and I sat and talked for hours.  I feel so blessed to have found so many great friends here at Mirror.




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