Since writing my October blog when incidently I lost the ability to add photos for some reason, we have had a sad time at Katoka. Cathie Rew my friend and colleague for many years gradually deteriorated in health and passed away on the 11th Nov. The funeral which was held the next day in keeping with the custom out in Congo was impressive and a testimony to the high esteem in which she was held by the people with whom she had worked for 59years. Then her husband William who had been having breathing problems and pain for some time also deteriorated in health and we had to have him flown out to Lubumbashi for investigations. The doctor in Lubumbashi advised him to return to Uk for full investigations and so a flight was arranged for him ( with some difficulty ) to travel via Nairobi Kenya and I was asked to accompany him. We arrived at Heathrow yesterday morning 29th Nov and Elspeth William's daughter met him. They travelled to Worcester where Elspeth lives and he was admitted in the afternoon to hospital into the medical assesment unit and we are so thankful for the care and attention which is been given and we pray for the medical staff to have wisdom for his on going treatment.
