25 Jan 2012
Widelene – Seriously Ill – from last night
Please pray for Wideline, Susan and her parents
Cry Haiti: Wideline: Seriously Ill
Wideline: Seriously Ill
Last night, Wideline’s face and feet began to swell. In the early hours of the morning, her temperature dropped, and her body began to shut down.Later in the morning, I wiped her face clean. Suddenly, her face was bloody. I examined her top to toe. The creases of her neck, behind her ears, her underarms, were raw and moist. It looked as though the baby had sustained second degree burns. I was horrified. Utterly horrified.
Our paediatrician diagnosed dermatitis of Kwashiorkor. Kwashiorkor is a particular kind of malnutrition, caused mainly by protein deficiency. It is usually fatal in babies under 6 months of age.
In the past 6 months, two very young infants have been nursed through Kwashiorkor at GLA, but nether of them were as sick as Wideline is now. She has just received her 5th mini transfusion of blood and two further doses of sodium bicarbonate to reduce the acid levels in her body.
I have done all I can. The rest is in the hands of my God. Of Wideine’s God, and yours. Ours is a God who answers prayer………
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May God heal Wideline from her illness. I will be praying for Wideline. God still performs miracles as I have witnessed in the past week in our NICU. A newborn baby who was very ill did a turnaround over night and was off to her mom and dad’s arms. I just cried when I saw his miraculous healing.
Heidi
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