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 Hello! My ride arrives in just a little over an hour, so I thought I would take a quick moment to give another round of thanks. 💗 I could not do any of this without the support of my friends, family, and followers. The luggage alone is $430 😳, so those of you kind enough to send financial support are greatly appreciated. And the yarn! Holy smokes, I have so much yarn now, that I cannot begin to bring it all on this trip, which means the next trip is covered (Thanks to my Whidbey knitters and Lee Ann). Brandy, from Quintessential Knits, rallied her friends and donated 3 humongous bags of yarn and an abundance of knitting supplies on top of all of the supplies sent by my friends. (Especially from my friend Liz, who sent me 40 needles because she was "sick of hearing me talk about it" 😂).  Along with the beautiful bags from my neighbor, my dear friend Aubrey sent me 2 additional boxes of bags she made for the knit-kits. I do feel like my friend Melissa needs a special mentio...
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 Hi folks,  Departure time is near, so I thought I would check in, while I still have my wits about me. :)  First of all, a huge thank you...this week I have received multiple deliveries of knitting supplies from near and far! I still have some yarn and hats to collect, but thanks to all of you, I am set for this trip and the next and I know the midwives will be so excited with the new supplies!  I also have exciting and terrifying news; my business has officially been launched! Yipeee...and Yikes! Worldwiseultrasound.com The business is a registered LLC, business license is pending, business cards are ordered and social media is live, although I have been too busy to get aggressive with posting. Please check out my website, follow my pages, and/or just talk me off the ledge whenever possible. 😂 Rachel sent me a large box of skirts and necklaces, made by the women in Atiak, to sell for fundraising. If you would like to check them out, here's a link to the Facebook p...
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 Hello, again! So, let's talk about Ebola. 😁 Many of you have reached out to me about the recent Ebola outbreak, so I thought I would share some information. First off, here is a link with detailed information from the World Health Organization...   https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2026-DON602 Here is a map showing the areas of the latest outbreak in the DRC... There have only been 2 confirmed cases (including 1 death) of Ebola in Kampala, Uganda, from travelers from the DRC. Here is a link to the CDC with more information... https://www.cdc.gov/ebola/situation-summary/index.html     On the map below, Atiak is the red dot, Kampala is circled in blue and you can see the DRC border in purple.  Rachel and I are communicating almost daily, and we will wait to assess the situation as it gets closer to take off. The good news about the early detection is that more money will be released by the government for research and potential treatments...
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 Hi Folks,  Can we all agree that time seems to be flying by at a ridiculous speed? I can't wrap my head around the fact that we are more than halfway through May, and I will be headed back to Uganda in only 4 weeks. The last few weeks have been rough for me. A dear friend and coworker died suddenly and tragically, which has been very hard for all of us at work. She was such a lovely person, bringing a light into every room she entered, and it doesn't seem right that someone so young is no longer with us. I am working on getting my head back in the game and getting back to work at the tasks at hand. Typically, once I have planned the dates for my trips, I put the flight on a "watchlist", which notifies me when the prices drop, when is the best time to book the flight, etc... Well, not surprisingly, the flights are a mess these days, with gas prices going through the roof, our current war, and flights being cancelled. The cheapest flights all go through the middle east...
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 Hi Folks! (I started this last night, but petered out, so I'm back at it tonight!) I finally have a moment to catch my breath, and I have so much to share with you all. I got home a little over a week ago, took a couple of days to get back in my time zone, and then hit the ground running with 6 days of work in a row. Whew!   I arrived very late in Nairobi on Sunday, meeting Rachel and Harriet (the new Midwife Director for the birth center in Uganda) at the airport. The driver that was hired to pick us up was lagging and we finally arrived at our hotel sometime after 1am, managed a few hours of sleep, then met our group in the lobby at 5:30am. The conference opened at 6am and our presentation was scheduled to start at 7am, so we needed to get registered and sorted early.  Rachel, Harriet and I The initial presentation went very well, and we ended up with a little over 100 attendees. The Community of Practice (CoP) members each gave a brief presentation and then after...
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