Rosetaina is 20 months old and came to us March 20th weighing 10.5 lbs. She had been released earlier that week from a hospital after treatment for malnutrition. Sadly, she has AIDS. She refuses to take food by mouth so we are tube feeding her. She has gained 1 1/2 lb. in the 2 weeks she has lived here. With a CD4 count of 273 (6.6%) and AIDS wasting syndrome, she needs ARV therapy soon. We enrolled her in the AIDS program and will find out their plans on April 30th. Pray for this precious little girl!
Our landlord has appealed the mayor's decision to take part of our house to widen the street. The government will have to compensate her for her land and they are not in a hurry to give money to anyone, so we won't have to move in April. Whew! We are looking for a new house for when this lease expires in October and hope the appeals process will keep the bulldozers away until we have moved. Please pray urgently for us to find a new home and for this house to remain intact until we have moved!
Casey has been a blessing! Our walls are covered with new artwork. Kervens is enjoying school. I really appreciate the help with running errands, hugging kids, teaching manners, covering us all with prayer, and all the other wonderful things Casey does for us. It will be sad to see her leave in June but I'm trying not to think about that yet. Praise God for our wonderful helper, Casey!
Poutchino’s fingers are clubbed from chronic oxygen deprivation. They are getting worse, not better, with TB treatment. An American doctor who examined Poutchino and his test results thinks the coughing is caused by aspiration, not tuberculosis. It is possible he doesn’t have tuberculosis at all (PPD negative, x-ray not characteristic of TB). We need to have a bronchoscope and culture done on him. I am trying to find a doctor who can do it. This is an urgent need.
Johnny (2 yrs old today) was diagnosed with tuberculosis. It must be treated before he can receive AIDS medicines.The hospital also decided to treat Lovensky (17 months old) for TB although they aren’t sure he has it. He, too, cannot be treated for AIDS until he finishes TB treatment. TB treatment is a minimum of 6 months.
Johnny (CD4 15.6%) and Lovensky (CD4 25.7%) are both are so sick with AIDS that they qualify for AIDS medicines now. Please pray that they will survive six months of TB treatment.
We have some big needs right now:
- 5 ml slip tip syringes - 1 case
- 60 ml luer-lok syringes - 1 case
- 30 mg phenobarbitol tablets - a large supply (Poutchino takes 1/day)
- zythromicin for prophylaxis for the kids with AIDS
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