We have so many new experiences to write about but we have limited effort remaining at the end of each day. Here are some bullet points to try & catch you up. (follow us:
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Despite the difficulties we are making good friends, adapting to the languages, and trying to show Gods love in everything we do.
-I saw a laboring mother referred to us from an outside hospital with a "hand first" presentation. The baby died before they arrived but you could clearly see the dark blue lifeless hand protruding from between the mom's legs. She wept as we delivered her lifeless baby. It's one of many heart-wrenching sights I will never forget.
-Grace got bitten on the butt by a monkey named Charlie - kinda funny and reminded us of that you tube video with the British kids "Charlie bit my finger."Charlie bit Grace again on the waist a few days later - not funny!
I gave Charlie a ketamine anesthetic a few days after that and our general surgeon castrated Charlie. Hopefully he will mellow out now.
-The girls were on the porch sorting dried beans-- keeping the good and tossing rocks and the beans with worm holes onto the dirt or sidewalk. A man working nearby approached and asked if he could keep the beans we didn't want. He picked up each one and saved them in his pocket. That was a humbling moment. Kim lovingly shared our "good beans" with that man.
-Some of you may have heard that Emmie has been sick. High fevers cycling up & down for almost 3 days. Having a sick child is never easy but add malaria and other tropical diseases in the mix and it is more troubling. She bounced back well by late today but unfortunately had an allergic reaction to a 2nd med we added. Luckily I caught that early enough & treated it. She's such a trooper. Thanks for all of your prayers.
-A sweet 9month old girl had complications from her IV quinine. She returned to the hospital several days after being discharged -sadly her entire hand was ischemic...it could not be saved and was eventually amputated at the wrist. She's pretty sick. Please pray for her. Chad is challenging enough without physical limitations and her life will be very difficult (if she survives).
Kim is taking over the nutrition center ministry. She will have plenty to write about that but it is a joyful and gut-wrenching ministry. She meets families every week to provide homemade formula to severely malnourished babies. It's exactly what you imagine and worse. The sickest ones are also provided medical care at the hospital. Perhaps you will be able to help financially and give to this ministry. Details to come. The need is great and our resources are limited. Pray for those families & ours as we try to help them.
Love,
Mason, Kim, Grace, & Emmie
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