BABY ROSILDA, 4 MONTHS OLD, HAS SERIOUS MALARIA For 3 weeks, we have bat­tled Rosilda’s malar­ia. First, with 2 dif­fer­ent kinds of oral malar­ia meds, then final­ly tak­ing her to the hos­pi­tal for IV treat­ment on Wednes­day. She awoke that day from her mid-day nap cry­ing, and wouldn’t take a bot­tle. Her tem­per­a­ture was 38C under the arm, about 101F. She was one sick lit­tle baby, but thanks to the Emer­gency Room staff, her fever broke and she calmed down after IV med­ica­tions were started.

Baby Rosil­da’s 1st day in hos­pi­tal. She final­ly cried her­self to sleep as she was mis­er­able before the meds.

Thurs­day morn­ing after her Glu­cose IV and tak­ing oral med­ica­tions to set­tle her stom­ach, she final­ly began to eat a lit­tle and drank her entire 3 ounces of milk. Baby steps for sure as we take it one day at a time. Your prayers are much appre­ci­at­ed as we must have her on treat­ment for a full 7 days to make sure the malar­ia is gone. Pray­ing her blood count holds so she won’t need any blood.

Rosil­da awake but not hap­py unless held by her Fos­ter Moth­er, Estevania.

DIGGING A SEPTIC TANK HELPS FIX OUR ROADS  Might seem like a strange com­bi­na­tion, but this week our con­struc­tion crew began dig­ging the large sep­tic tank for House #8. This is the per­fect time to dig any hole, as the ground is soft, but not mushy from all the rains. This is a large hole as you can see in the pho­to, and when fin­ished it will be 4 meters/13 feet deep.

Dig­ging a 4 meter/13 foot deep sep­tic for House #8.

The heavy rains dur­ing Jan­u­ary and Feb­ru­ary always leave behind washed out areas on our dirt roads. So, the dirt from the sep­tic tank will be put to good use fill­ing in the mud holes in the roads lead­ing to our mis­sion station.

Sep­tic dirt being put to good use by fill­ing a deep trench that heavy rains had dug.

THANKS FOR YOUR PRAYERS AS THE RAINS HAVE REDUCED TO LIGHT RAINS! We even had a whole 24 hours this week WITHOUT RAIN. Now it feels more like March! This week the BBC went out all week, and the crops are begin­ning to dry out. Makes me a Hop­py Bun­ny for sure! BLESSINGS, BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE AND THE BALAMA STAFF