manky foot

I currently have a very manky foot due to an ant!

I was in a forest here with my friend Andrea who was visiting, trying to find monkeys, we didnt do to well by ourselves and a local guy helped us and took us to the right spot to find them. When we founf the monkeys they were great but we treaked through a very dense forest. I was not expecting to do this so had my open toe shoes on. As our guide was chatting away I start to feel lots of things crawling up my legs. I am covered with safari ants which are massive and flesh eatting!! Not nice

So after some panic and pain we get them all off. Two days later the bites have all gone down apart from one which over the weekend managed to get bigger and more painful and make me feel quite ill. I have started antibotics at the beginning of the week and they taking affect. But it is still quite painful and is making me walk very slowly so i have been unable to run this week and even wear my normal sandels, i am being very culturally inappropriate and wearing my flipflops which are the equivalente of slippers in england!

my next door neighbour is a doctor, so she pierced it last night but not much puss came out then, but have had a steady flow today and it is feeling some what better.
the main problem is that i am meant to be running the kampala 10 km race on sunday, i am still hoping that it will heal up quickly and i can do it or i may do it anyway! and just have to suffer afterwards!
I would love to put up a picture but i feel that may be too gross!!!