Past few days in Bere

We are getting settled in although not quite adjusted to the time zone change yet. I went out this morning to two different branch Sabbath Schools under the mango trees then came back for church.

Things have dried up a lot so I think dry season has begun. The low this morning was 80.

I did a prostatectomy, an ectopic pregnancy with a lot of blood in the abdomen, a ruptured appendix that I thought initially was a perforated gastric ulcer but wasn't, 2 hernias, drained an abdominal wall abcess, took a grain of rice out of someone's ear, etc.  Samedi did 2 c-sections the morning we got back. One baby was dead from a prolapsed cord. Other baby lived .

I was surprised to find one generator missing when I was looking around Thurs morning after we got back Wed evening on the mission plane. Our baggage arrived here Fri morning. The generator apparently got its inner wiring burned so Isaac had taken it apart from the motor and had it taken to Moundou to get it rewired or rewound. So far the other generator is doing fine. They say the repaired generator sould be back this coming week sometime.

The dogs are fine.

James Appel is here this weekend going back to N'Djamena where he is working part of the time. He was at Moundou for a few days while Scott was gone. James was visiting the grave of his child this morning that he lost here to malaria a few years ago.  Scott is going to Europe next week for a month but Samedi will be covering Moundou during that time . I will covering Bere.

All seems quiet so far as Boko Haram or any danger is concerned. I have not heard of any further problems.

Rollin    
Hopital Adventiste de Bere
Boite Postal 52
Kelo, Tandjile,  Chad,  Afrique
  

my brother and wife Reggie and Cheryl Bland with us

by our campsite Kebler Pass, Colorado

on Independence Pass, Colorado
After arrival in the USA we spent a week in Colorado mountains enjoying the  Fall color and spending  some time with my brother and his wife.   The color perhaps was not widespread as good as some years but still was very good.   We had rain in the Beaver creek South Fork area the first day or so but was nice after that other than freezing cold which was much different from 90F in Chad  
Rollin and Dolores

Oct 8 left Chad

 We are back in the USA arriving back in Jay, Okla early am Sept 19 after a 10 hr bus ride from Bere to NDJ then 4 hr flight NDJ to Addis then a 15 hr flight to IAD (Washington,DC) then a 3 hr flight to OKC then a 3 hr drive to Jay.   Of course there were some layovers etc.   On Sept 12 I came back to Bere from a branch Sab School and learned that the US State Dept had sent out an advisory that American citizens should leave Chad because of continuing government instability and danger from Boko Haram.   Although the last bombing in NDJ, Chad was June and July in a market and a police station.   We actually felt very safe in Bere as it is so remote.   That same day the General Conference (our church headquarters) sent out a note that we should leave "as soon as feasible".   We really think there was a mistake as we have not experienced any danger.   The US State Dept has since then sent out a travel advisory warning of possible danger areas but no mention of needing to evacuate.   A lot of expatriates have left Chad but there are still many who think everything is about the same and have stayed on.   Olen got permisson to stay to keep things together a little longer and thinking that Dolores and I would go back by the last part of October.   We don't know how soon the General Conference will give us the OK to return or if they will.   So we are sort of in limbo not knowing how to plan.   Danae and the kids, Scott and Bekki from Moundou and Dolores and I all came back on the same plane to DC.  We all have had malaria either during the trip or since arriving back here.   Olen also had it back in Bere but is better now.   James Appel is still in Chad.  
We are all safe and well but PRAY for us and the work in Chad that it can continue.   We have invested lot of time and energy as well as money there and would hate to see it go backwards by many years.  Of course the most important thing is all of our safety but we never saw any real danger except from malaria. 
refer to blog   www.missionarydoctors.blogspot.com
Our emails are  drbland@sbcglobal.net    and  dfbland@gmail.com
Love   Rollin and Dolores