We started off by heading out to Bosnia and going to pick up Dani. We got to meet his three older sisters and his grandmother. Dani’s mother is a widow and struggles to provide for her family on her own. She is such a sweet lady despite the many struggles she faces and was […]
I’ve written about Dani before. I first met him in January when we were doing a clinic in a slum area called Bosnia. Getting a diagnoses here is hard because there are few doctors that are knowledgable enough to diagnose special cases and no machines available to do scanning. Dani has many characteristics that […]
Everyone at the house is still doing great. Isaac is eating well and gaining weight and getting healthy. His little muscles are starting to loosen up and we are finding new ways for him to sit and work various muscles. He is back to his happy smiling self. He particularly enjoys laughing when one […]
Brian is doing great. Tuberculosis takes months to fully go away and Brian just finished his sixth month of medicine. So we took him to the doctor for a check-up. Since his father had started then stopped the medicine he will take the medicine for six more months to be sure that it doesn’t […]
Today Leila and I took Brian and Lavender to the district hospital to get physical therapy. After therapy, Dr. Nabongo, the physical therapist, told us that he had another child that lives nearby that he wanted us to meet in case we have any openings for the house. So we went to meet Ruth. Ruth […]
Lavender is making great improvements. I’ve been working with her on gaining strength so that she can learn to sit completely on her own. I came up with this easy little game of lining up some toys on the chair and then she takes them down. She is all smiles and always asks to play. It’s […]
Had a great birthday today. In the morning I had a couple of things to do around town and then in the afternoon I got a call to go down to Leila’s and they surprised me by having a little celebration at her house. I walked into a room full of smiling faces singing happy […]
Took Cyril to the dentist in town today. The left side of her face is swollen and red because she has an infected tooth that needs to come out. So we are going back on Friday to have it removed. Cyril wasn’t a big fan of the dentist and couldn’t wait to get out of […]
