Cochabamba - Bolivia

The whole reason for coming and staying a while in this town was so that Ian could undertake a 5 day solo paragliding course. The instructor couldn´t speak English except for left and right, so of course Ian was learning the important instructions in Spanish quite quickly! Well now I´m playing nurse maid because Ian took a tumble on a stuffed up take off (off a mountain). Real shame as he had completed 3 of the 5 day course. I think he´ll have to hang his parachute up for good. He hurt his back (to what extent we don´t really know), but some bruising on his leg has taken days to come out. He has trouble walking around much without having to sit down, which is unusual, as usually when his back gives him trouble (which is about once a year) he has more comfort standing as the pressure is off the already damaged disc. For those of you who don´t know, Ian actually broke his back about 8 years ago, and does have metal work. I am having to give him injections!!!! They are supposed to help with him pain relief (but his unsure whether he thinks they really are!) With the 1st injection I had to give, he was taking sooo long just to find a flabby spot (hopefully without bone), it was making me sooo nervous. The needle is long and thick, so that was making him nervous. Gave it to him in the bum, and the breaking of the skin was the hardest part, and then everything else felt like slow motion. He continues to have a numb leg and foot. I continue to have an issue of the first part of breaking the skin! He has to have 6! So we are spending a lot of time in our room, reading, playing cards, but mostly watching movies and CNN. When we venture out for meals, we catch taxi´s! Hence we haven´t moved on, spending about 10 days here, and are just taking it day by day. There is the Torotoro National Park that we had wanted to visit, but there are only 2 local buses a week, and the journey is 7 hours on a terrible road. The next possible day we can go is Sunday. Ian´s in slight denial thinking that maybe we will be able to go then. Of course we never made it.