I’ve definitely had an interesting past couple of days. I went with Janine and the Chaplain of the PMI clinic to do the health evaluation/inspection there. It took 2 days to finish the whole thing and I tell you, I was very impressed with how educated and sanitary (for the most part) the staff was with procedures. Although I’ve heard all about how common malaria is here and how sick people can get from it, I guess it just didn’t hit me as hard as seeing it first hand. First there were the records we had to go through to be sure that the staff were documenting correctly all of the malaria patients that had come through in the past year, just to this clinic. The numbers were pretty astonishing. Then there were several cases in the in-patient ward who were on ivs, but the one that struck me the most was the precious little girl. /she had to have been about 6 years old and I couldn’t tell at first what was wrong with her, that is until she started convulsing. Then I was informed that Cerebral Malaria is a common form that goes into the brain. As her mother calmed her and the nurse checked on her, all I could do was pray that God heal her.
We went to the maternity ward and there was a 2 day old baby that was born 2 months early. She was the tiniest and most beautiful baby girl who I could only pray for as well that she didn’t contract HIV from her mother or potentially get malaria.
On a positive note, I got to see an ultrasound of a lady that was 3-months pregnant! Oh the joy of life! I think I was more excited about it than her though.

After morning devotions at the church tomorrow morning, I’ll be practicing up on my muffin making for the handicapped women I’ll be teaching on Thursday. Then I’ll be making enchiladas for my birthday dinner!
That’s all for now! God loves you and so do I!
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