Hi there again everyone. Thank you for your prayers over the last few weeks. Sorry for not updating my blog sooner but I was down with some mystery illness for over a week and since then have been dealing with some sick children, naughty grandmothers and a rather serious staffing issue!
I myself have now fully recovered with or without the help of some malaria medicine and antibitiotics and despite a caterpillar cocoon leaving me with a nasty rash on my arm which is still here after a week!
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| Carol enjoying the garden! |
On Monday this week little Carol was rushed to and admitted to hospital as she had yet another chest infection which had caused her chest to stick out in a rather scary fashion and made her breathing rather laboured (to put it mildly.) And to add to this, she was continuing to have epileptic seizures despite two different medications. Thankfully the hospital responded very quickly and put her on Oxygen straight away. Her carer Christine and her Daddy Stanley have been taking turns to stay with her at the hospital (sleeping on mats on the floor!) with some help from others including Uncle Stu who received many compliments when he did a shift yesterday......the nurses told us that he had done a ‘wonderful job, just like a lady!’ I guess they are just not used to seeing men caring so tenderly for little children! So Carol is making small improvements and they have put a NG tube down which she is now using for feeding so that it doesn`t go down into her lungs and add to the problems there! We are planning to keep this in and in the near future to take her for surgery in Kampala to fit a feeding tube. Please keep praying that we are able to find a hospital willing to do the surgery. Hopefully a team from the UK will be bringing tubes for both Hassan and Carol in April thanks to a very kind doctor! Your continued prayers for Carol would be much appreciated. She is such a delicate little girl with so many issues!
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| Kakulu (left) happy to back with A.Jordanna and Brian. |
On a happier note, this week saw the return of our dear Kakulu who has been away in Masindi with his Grandmother. After a lengthy discussion with the Grandmother (Jajja as we call them here!) we agreed that Kakulu will now being staying with us during school term times and just going home to the Grandmother in the holidays. She will be returning to Masindi as she has been able to find work there. As well as sorting out Kakulu`s care, we also had to resolve the issue of what had been done / has been done with the house that we had built for Kakulu in 2010/11. Obviously it had been built to help Kakulu and we were not happy that the Grandmother and he had moved away......especially when we began hearing rumours that she had sold it! However, what she told us on Thursday was that there were now relatives living there and taking care of both her house and garden and although they were not willing to keep Kakulu at weekends, they were prepared to bring a regular supply of garden produce to help feed Kakulu and his friends whilst he stays here with us. There were several other conditions which we made before we agreed t o keep Kakulu; we have learnt the hard way to be a bit tougher and not believe everything people tell us and so we had to ensure that Kakulu was not going to be ‘dumped’ on us and abandoned! It is a joy to have him back and he is certainly very vocal about how happy he is to be with us J
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| Hassan reading a sponsor letter with his favourite Auntie! |
And finally, just to ask for your prayers also for Hassan who is presently vomiting a lot of his feeds because of a cough which he has had for over 3 months. He has been taking cough syrup 3 times a day for this but in the last week, it has ceased to be effective so we are having to explore other ways to stop him!
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