Before I start my updates, if you have not seen the blog
from yesterday, or seen the video, please check this out. My interaction with Isaac has been my most
fun interaction, with a child, since we have been in Uganda.
We took Tendo to the hospital at Mulago on Wednesday. We got her checked in and most of her surgery
and hospitalization paid for. We will
finish the balance when she is discharged.
Thank you again to all of the Due Unto supporters that chipped in to cover
this life changing surgery for her. She
is in good spirits and even took the time to teach Jayne “how to dance”. See these videos.
Her mother and her maternal aunt came with us
to Mulago. They had brought so many
provisions, that it took all of us to carry them. She is scheduled for surgery on Friday
morning.
While we were getting Tendo checked in, we ran into Joseph,
and his father Ellya, in the heart institute waiting room. Joseph is the young boy that we picked up in
Mytiana and has been diagnosed with Burkitt’s lymphoma of his face and
sinuses. He is getting worked up by the
cancer institute to make sure he is a candidate for chemotherapy. He got an ECG and echocardiogram while we were there. If he qualifies for chemo, he will have 20%
chance of survival. As I have said
before, for Joseph, it will be either 0% cure rate or 100% cure rate. We are circling that prayer wagons to
petition our God for the 100% cure.
Please join us. We are also
praying that this miraculous healing will show his father towards Christ.
As we picked up Tendo in Konge this morning, we stopped in
to check on Nakiganda also. She is now
in the school. One of the teachers goes
and picks her up each morning and takes her to the school. She is now being academically stimulated and
getting a nutritious breakfast and lunch each day. She was looking beautiful with her blue dress
on today.
She lit up when we walked in,
but then went back to eating. We are
currently working with the diagnosis of chronic malnutrition, but plan to do
some blood work in the weeks to come.
Jamil, the young boy with the large eye tumor, has been
released from Mulago and is back home in Palissa. He has connected with the health center
there, and they are changing his dressings each day. He continues to see some light and shape from
his right eye, and this should be “impossible” as his optic nerve was
removed. He is doing well, and I
continue to get updates about him from Fred.
We will get a chance to see him again when we go through Palissa in
mid-June. Fred told me that when he took
Jamil to his home in Palissa, he noted a conspicuous absence of a bed, bedding
or mosquito net for Jamil. Needless to
say, the Due Unto team is making this happen for one of our favorite young men
in Uganda. Keep praying for his sight to
be miraculously restored as a witness to God’s power!
I will update you on Tendo's surgery when we have more information.Thanks for your continued prayer and support.
Jay
Yes - it DOES make a difference to that one!
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