My heart is really heavy because there is a critically ill baby in the nursery now. She is about a month old and is from a city about 2 hours from here. She became ill very suddenly with a temperature and her mom brought her to the local hospital. From there she was transferred to Tenwek and was diagnosed with meningitis. She is now on a ventilator and very very sick. Her mother and I have become friends while she sits in the hallway outside the nursery. It is so painful for her to be in nursery while all the other mothers are breastfeeding their babies and she can not even hold her child. Words are so inadequate even though Mom does speak English. What do you say? We have prayed many times together and implored Jesus to heal her baby. She believes this with all of her heart and is waiting for a miracle. I, too, want to believe this and yet in my head I question whether it is possible and if possible what damage will have been done to this child's brain. Oh, that I had this mother's hope. So we keep praying and weeping together.
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