Travel Update .....Still no idea when I can come home!!!

What a few days this has been! It’s been a real rollercoaster of emotions!

After an amazing couple of days at Victoria Falls (will do a proper blog on that soon, with lush pics), Saturday morning found me in agony with the spider bite. Having completed the antibiotics the previous Wednesday, it seemed wrong that I was still in so much pain ....so yet another trip to the clinic.
The 'kind' doctor said he would need to cut out the dead tissue and remove the poison that was still there - eek! He told me he would not use anaesthetic and suggested I hold onto the side of the bed - double eek!! He then did the cutting and removing of poison bit. Being squeamish I didn't look but will describe what I think he did from then on... First, he rubbed the injury with some type of brillo pad, then he poured acid over it! Blimey O'Reilly, did it hurt?!!! Anyway, the good news is that, and I quote my dear friend Emily, "every spider bite has a silver lining" because he said he would give me a letter advising British Airways that due to my medical condition (which, for dramatic purposes, I have named Acute Spider Bite-itis) I should be given priority boarding. Yay, yay, yay, I thought!

Off I trundled to BA to claim this special concession. BA confirmed that I could have priority boarding (more yays!)

I spent the weekend with the, getting lovlier and kinder by the minute, Dan & Helen.
Today, Monday, saw me moving out of Dan & Helen's and into the 5 star Southern Sun Hotel in Lusaka, courtesy of BA. I was beginning to relax and think how much worse it could be when all BA guests were called to a briefing in the hotel.  They told me that the earliest flight I can get, (and that is if flights start-up immediately), is Thursday of next week!!!!

I am totally stunned and will of course, pursue as many options as possible but it's not looking good.

I'm not suffering in any way, shape or form and realise that I'm very lucky to be in this hotel but to be honest, after being in Chipata and seeing the suffering there, I feel quite uncomfortable staying here. On the plus side, I have a TV so can watch the news and have internet access.

But, all I want to do is come home....