yesterday we played in the water with the kiddos after lunch and it was so fun! they are all so precious....its an honor to be here...for God to trust me to love on them...help them and care for them.
however in the middle of our playing chris nuguester called...she was looking for someone to help her take a mom and her baby to hospital espoir. its not far so i said give me 20 minutes. finished with the kids and cleaned up. went over there and off we went. Chris explained that the mom had come to her a couple days ago with the baby, wanting chris to take him in. she told her to come back with a birth certificate. well she did and showed chris that he has clubbed feet and a problem on his back.
she said that he fell on a concrete block...the bandage was so old...she could tell it was going to be bad and decided to take the baby to the hospital. she wasnt sure about the story as it could be a spina bifida case. and when you are desperate for help anyone would try anything. i cant fathom sometimes having to deal with the things these beautiful people are often face with daily.
turns out that chris was right...she had taken the baby to general hospital already and they said he needs an operation, but she did not have the money. they bandaged it up and told her to change the dressings every day to keep it clean until she could come back and get the operation. she didnt change them.
it was so bad, the bandage is practically part of him now. it is infected and it has spread to his whole body. watching them try to take the bandage off and the smell affirms why God doesnt want me to be a nurse even though it would be so handy in a place like this. it broke my heart so bad that this little one would die in a day or two if somehow the surgery doesnt happen. the doctor at hospital espoir didnt take off the bandage as it would only open the area to more bacteria and it has already infected the whole body. this little one (12 days old) needs PRAYER!
i dropped them off and chris was having her driver come back so they could get to Ti Frere...pray. it is so needed. i know not all survive...the mother has alreadty lost 3 babies. she has a 4 year old at home. pray for this mom...i cant imagine losing 3 babies and then now maybe another.
my heart was really broken after this...i was blessed to help chris and to be a person praying for this situation, but its just one of so many in this country. the mayor is building and new building that is huge and the roads are getting widened, but yet still mamas like this dont have the funds, the education or enough resources to get her through this. if so...she is often the exception.
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so i talked with chris today...and she is still working on getting the baby in for an operation at frere ti ser. pray...chris also stopped by and took a look at poutchino. he has been running fevers almost everyday since i got here. with tylenol the fever goes down, but still with his history of phenomena and many other things...its not good to risk it. dorothy suggested giving him a course of 7 injections that could help....but he might have to get off his other meds. chris is going talk with her friend tonight to make sure if he needs to go off other meds before we start the course of injections (shots of 500 mg of ceftriaxone once a day for 7 days). hope to figure this out in the next couple of days.
pray for poutchi as well.
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