Things not going according to plan

Ok, so the trip started out great. It´s true what you hear about Lima, it´s smoggy and noisy and really there´s no need to be there more than a day. So we headed off down the coast, I´m travelling with my youngest sister, Hallai, and hit Pisco, home of the famous Pisco Sour. Man, that is a strong drink and I´m used to drinking whiskey.

From there on to Paracas where we went out to the Ballestes Islands and saw sea lions and penguins and loads of birds and a really cool geoglyph called the candelabra which dates back to Inca times. The on to a pisco vineyard and drank the pure stuff, very like poitin. Then on to Ica.

This is when things went south. We went on sand buggys up into the sand dunes to do some sand boarding. It was great fun, I only had a very small tumble at the end but Hallai went down very badly on her back. She spent last night in intensive care in Ica and they are monitoring her progress. They don´t think that there are any bones broken in the back and she has full movement of her arms and legs but the pain is very intense and she´s not able to move because of it.

I´m fucking terrified. I can´t face telling my mother. We have to get a ct scan done today, so hopefully she´ll get the all clear, but I don´t have anyone who I can really talk to out here because of the time difference and it´s so bloody scary not speaking the language when you are in a hospital. And the hospital in Ica isn´t the best believe me!

Anyway, I´ll write more when I get the chance, I´m going back to the hospital now so hopefully the news will be good. I don´t care what gods you pray to, but please ask them to help her.

TTFN.