Baby Job was born in the village on the 8th of February. His father had died of HIV/AIDS just 5 months before that. One week after the delivery, his mother got complications and she passed away. But before she died, she burned all her medical papers. Nobody knows the HIV status of the mother and the family brought Job to us for help, he was now 2 weeks old. Job looked good, his weight was 3,6 kg. so we were not worried, but very shortly after he was in Amecet, he started to become sick. Diarrhea, vomiting, fungal infections, fever. Of course we did tests on him, but nothing was found, he started to loose weight, needed an IV drip, we went to other doctors and they wanted us to do an X-ray, they thought it could be TB. We had to start anti TB medication. We also did a DNA HIV test, but we are still waiting for those results.. Last week Job was so bad, we called the family to come and see him and so we could explain what was going on. We also asked several questions about how the 2 weeks at home had been. We heard that the grandmother had looked after the baby and that the grandmother had TB. So it could be that Job really has TB.......
Job stays now in our medical room, he needs oxygen and we feed him most of the time through a NG tube. Very regular there is no electricity, so we have an extension cable to plug into our Solar socket and if that is finished, we still have one more solution: the generator!! We ask your prayers for Job, maybe he is HIV+, we still wait for the results of the test, he will go than directly on ARV's. Pray that the anti TB medicines are helping him. Yesterday he got high fevers again, he stopped drinking and he is miserable, we don't know what else to do or treat at the moment..Please pray for Janneke, who is heading the medical department and for wisdom for the doctors who treat him, pray for LIFE!!
Gabdesia, our beautiful teenager.... The doctors changed her ARV's into stronger ones. She was very weak and could hardly walk anymore. She is doing a bit better, looking stronger and is able to walk around again. She smiles again and that gives everybody hope, she has a beautiful smile. Her weight is 15,5 kg, she should be at least 35-40 kg. There is still a big problem with eating and taking medicines. We ask your prayers for a real change of mind, we can't keep on going giving her feedings and medicines by NG tube. Gabdesia has to make the decision that she wants to eat and take her medicines....
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