ZITO’S SURGERY FAILS TO RESOLVE INFECTION

The sur­geon opened Zito’s hip mus­cle to find a large pus pock­et which she thor­ough­ly cleaned out. The source of the prob­lem was not locat­ed, so he was kept on IV Antibi­otics for 5 days before being released. Once home, and on oral antibi­otics, his wound began drain­ing pus from the inci­sion with­in 3 days.

A call to the Provin­cial Hos­pi­tal, gained Zito a con­sult with the head orthopaedic sur­geon some­time next week. They will noti­fy us when to bring him in.

Zito today and in great spirits.

PLEASE KEEP PRAYING, FOR THIS YOUNG MAN IS IN A MAJOR FIGHT FOR HIS HEALTH. 

Zito’s infec­tion began in Dec. 2018, and has not been resolved with 3 surg­eries. My con­cern is that the infec­tion is IN the bone itself, and was not com­plete­ly erad­i­cat­ed in the first surgery last June. So we await the next con­sult to see what this orthopaedic sur­geon suggests.

Zito and his fos­ter father, Pas­tor Armando.

SCHOOL IS OUT, BUT PREPARATIONS MUST BEGIN FOR FEB., 2020

My team and I spent 2 days in Pem­ba this week buy­ing fab­ric to make 81 sets of school uni­forms (shirts with pants/skirt), plus box­es and box­es of all the note­books and sup­plies need­ed to out­fit those same 81 chil­dren. Not an easy feat, as it took a pick up plus my King Cab to get every­thing back to Bala­ma on Fri­day afternoon.

Mon­day, our sewing team will expand from 1 to 2 men with Singer ped­al sewing machines. These men will need 2 months to com­plete the sewing of 81 uniforms.

The old­er chil­dren are eager­ly await­ing their test results to know if they passed to the next grade. The 10th and 12th graders will be tak­ing their exams this com­ing week. Loads of fun around here, for SCHOOL HOLIDAYS has begun for all the oth­er grades.

Room full of 2020 school supplies.

BABIES GALORE

With 9 babies in our 4 homes for younger chil­dren, buy­ing 20 pack­ages of dia­pers to meet their needs took up much of the room in our Fri­day trans­port trucks.  We allow the moth­ers to use a prop­er dis­pos­able dia­per at night to pre­vent mat­tress damage. 

Dur­ing the day, they use cot­ton cloth dia­pers as the heat from any plas­tic dia­per cov­er caus­es severe dia­per rash. For the next 5 months it will be in the 90’s F (30’s C).  Hot and humid, as the rainy sea­son begins.

Lit­tle Vic­to­ria with her old­er sis­ters Felim­i­na and Domini­ca. Click to see their video clip on YouTube. https://youtu.be/OF40c4rj8XUAnd don’t for­get to check out and share our 2019 OU Video.https://youtu.be/M0XCggD68d8

TOGETHER, WE ARE TRULY MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF MANY CHILDREN!

BLESSINGS,

BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE

AND THE BALAMA STAFF