Cause of death...toe infection!

Things are going much better since my so sad posting about my holidays. I made it back to site and got back to work. Being back to a normal schedule has really helped my attitude. Shortly after I returned was when I got all my ant, bed bug, and mosquito bites. I had a small ant bite on my big toe that I didn't even realized I had scratched. Well the scratch turned into a small scab. Small scab turned into a toe infection that caused my whole foot to swell up so big I couldn't bent my toe at all, or hardly walk for that matter. Along with the foot swelling came a fever of 102 degrees. The toe went from having a small scab to swollen and fever in a matter of 4 or 5 hours. At this point, in the middle of the night, I pulled out my flash light (because the electricity was off) to take a look at this toe of mine. My whole toe was read and all around the scab was gray. It was really cute! So I popped it (I'm sure all of you really want to read the next few details!) and puss and blood came gushing out. I cleaned it up as best I could and put a bandaid on it. By morning the fever broke and since then the swelling has slowly gone down. So what was my first near death experience in Ghana has become a serious lesson learned: don't let cuts "breath" in Ghana! Otherwise... you could end up losing a limb... or at least a toe!
Well, I'm going to get back to work now! I have to figure out a way of teaching a community that lives on stilts (Nzulezo) to dispose of trash in a way other than throwing it in the water. If they continue what they are doing much longer they won't be living in water anymore... only trash!
I miss you all!