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From The Savutos...13 June 09
Dear Friends and Family, "You see, it is hard to understand and even harder to live
the true privilege of those who follow Christ:
the privilege of the
cross....How difficult it is to believe in the sort of Messiah that Jesus of
Nazareth represents! "To believe that we win by losing our very selves! To believe that love is everything. To believe that power is a great danger, wealth slavery, comfortable life a misfortune." From "Why, O Lord?" By Carlo Carretto In my last email I told you
about Christopher, a 17 year old who fell out of a tree landing on his head and
sustaining a severe head injury. He
was admitted on 4 April 09 and after being in a coma for weeks, he woke up and
two weeks ago he was sitting up in a chair and able to feed himself.
Today he is talking, able to see faintly, but our eye doctor assures us
his vision will return, and he is walking short distances.
His mom is so thankful as are all the nurses who have cared for him.
He is ready to go home. However the family has no money and has paid only
a fraction of his bill. He will go
home soon because of the Service Fund, which many of you have supported, which
pays for hospital bills. We are so
thankful to God that in His time and His way Christopher woke up and now will
walk out. Two and half years ago I
was asked to write my job description for my position as Quality Improvement
Officer. I used the model I knew
and worked in while in the Thus a week ago when Mary
Gitari, the Matron and my boss, told me that during the last Governing Board
Meeting, the Board members, had decided that Quality Improvement had to be a
department, I was so surprised I was speechless (and for those of you who know
me, know how shocking that is!) I
am not certain exactly when it will happen.
Perhaps before we leave on our home assignment or afterwards, but I am
thankful to God it has happened and I believe that it will greatly help the
hospital and my replacement. Since
I know what the QM Director did in US hospitals I believe it will be good for me
to lay the ground work and create the job description.
I always find God's timing so perfect but usually very different from my
own. However, in retrospect I can
see that this is a great time for this to happen.
Again I am so grateful that God is in-charge rather than Jerri! On Tuesday evening we
received a patient from a road traffic accident.
He had just picked up his wife, who was killed in the accident.
He sustained severe chest injuries and so we planned to transfer him to We had sent a nurse
anesthetist with the patient in case he needed to be intubated.
During the trip to
This evening the first of ten mission work teams arrive in GOOD IDEA: Here are a couple of good
ideas that two people have shared with me recently.
The first is from Rev. Brooks Harrington, Methodist Justice Ministry of
"Also,
let me share with you a personal commitment that the trip
A second email from Rev. Harrington:
"Yesterday I was about to spend
$80.00
on two new belts. I stopped myself and entered the $80.00 in my notebook, to
give at the end of this month." We have had a bit of rain since I last wrote.
However, the surrounding areas have had no rain.
We are so thankful for the crops that will grow here and for the rain
that provides water for the hospital, the community and area people.
We are so concerned for our neighbors, just 15 - 20 miles away, who have
no food for the 3rd consecutive rainy season.
We are seeing their children in the Pediatric Ward.
Starvation is a reality here and it is so difficult to watch up close.
The first picture is of a
16 month old boy who has Kwashiorkor, protein starvation.
His legs are so swollen with terrible sores.
He is seriously ill. He is
too weak to cry but occasionally grimaces as he is in this picture when his legs
are touched. The second picture is of a
25 month old boy who has TB, Kwashiorkor and numerous other problems.
His mother told us all she had to feed him was breast milk and that
wasn't too good as she is always hungry and thirsty and never had much milk. These two children are part
of the hospital's special feeding program.
We are prayerful these two boys will live but we will give food to the
families no matter what happens. In His grip, Jerri & Bill Savuto
"It's not
so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito
is swatted." |
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