JOJO OUT OF HOSPITAL! JOJO, 7 months old, has now beat the malar­ia and the pneu­mo­nia, PTL! Thank you so much for your prayers for Jojo, as he was tru­ly in a bad way for the first few days. Even though he is eat­ing and drink­ing for­mu­la well, he still lost weight while in hos­pi­tal. He’s down from 5.45kg/12 lbs. the day he entered the hos­pi­tal to 4.75kg/10,5 lbs. as of his dis­missal on Fri­day at noon. Good care in the Leop­ard House (#7 for crit­i­cal babies) will have that weight put back on him in a few weeks. He was asleep dur­ing his dis­missal, so the look on his face was one of pure shock when he woke up as I took his pho­to. I’m sure his lit­tle mind was say­ing, “Where am I”?

Jojo awoke just as I was tak­ing the pho­to. Total sur­prise on his lit­tle face.

On a side note, baby Dino is still doing well with­out sup­ple­men­tal oxy­gen. His weight gain is slow, but that is nor­mal for chil­dren with his type of heart prob­lem. The amaz­ing thing is that he is doing well WITHOUT Oxy­gen! The med­ical staff are amazed!  RICE IS IN THE BARN After a lot of ear­ly hours (4:30 a.m. start time), and much hard work by our team of men, the 3,000 bags of rice have filled our barn to capac­i­ty. (Proves an Aggie can count after all!) Some thought that 3,000 was too much for the space we had, but it all fit!Taken with the help of my head­lights, the pho­to shows what 1000 bags looks like at 4:30 a.m. The men made short work of weigh­ing, sewing the bags for added strength, and stack­ing the rice, as we were fin­ished in 3 hours each day.

Men hav­ing prayer, wor­ship, and a short Bible les­son before we weigh 1,000 bags of rice. Each bag is 50kg or 110 lbs.

In our case, the ear­ly bird won the race! We were all able to do our reg­u­lar work after get­ting this task out of the way for the day.   MUCH THANKS FOR ALL YOUR PRAYERS AND LOVE GIFTS THAT MAKES US THE BEST REHAB CENTER FOR SICK INFANTS IN THIS PART OF OUR STATE.  BOTH JOJO AND DINO ARE LIVING PROOF THAT OUR GOD IS THE ONLY TRUE HEALER! BLESSINGS, BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE AND THE BALAMA STAFF