Thanks, everybody, for your good wishes for Tim’s speedy recovery.

What a day. It took me literally hours to get any useful information from the health unit at the embassy, but finally I did get an update. The doctors at the hospital think the insect bite was poisonous (which is what I had thought all along, although I guess nobody else did) and that he is allergic to the venom, so they are keeping him the hospital for a few days with heavy doses of antibiotics via IV.

All this time I was under pressure at work, and some friends’ kids came to take Sahraa for a walk in the evening for me, but she refused to go with them. So I took her out late, and she didn’t really want to go then, either. I think she misses Tim.