MALARIA THREATENS MORE THAN BABIES Fos­ter Moth­er Fran­quina in Baby House #7 (Leop­ard House) came down with a seri­ous case of malar­ia on Mon­day that tried to go Cere­bral. When Head House Moth­er Gil­da called me at 7pm, Fran­quina was deliri­ous and had a high fever that hit very sud­den­ly. I called in 2 of our men and then sev­er­al moth­ers. It took 5 peo­ple to car­ry her out to my King Cab as a deliri­ous per­son is not easy to man­age. The Emer­gency Room Direc­tor met us at the hos­pi­tal, and imme­di­ate­ly start­ed her on IV flu­ids and IV anti-malar­ia med­ica­tions. With­in 30 min­utes she was rest­ing calm­ly, as she has been thrash­ing around the bed before treat­ment was start­ed. TUESDAY NIGHT, I was called out to the Girls House for school-age chil­dren. Six­teen-year-old ANGELICA was found unre­spon­sive in her bed after she had eat­en sup­per and tak­en a bath. She had a high fever, so Fos­ter Father Samuel picked her up like she was a baby and car­ried her to my King Cab. Once again, we met the ER Direc­tor at the hos­pi­tal, who imme­di­ate­ly start­ed her on IV flu­ids and IV anti-malar­ia med­ica­tions. THANKFULLY, BOTH FRANQUINA AND ANGELICA recov­ered quick­ly and were released on Wednes­day morn­ing.  They both remain on oral anti-malar­ia treat­ments at our home and are doing well.With a sigh of relief, we all took a deep breath and relaxed, but it didn’t last long!

Angel­i­ca and Fran­quina arriv­ing home from hos­pi­tal after nasty bouts of malaria.

WEDNESDAY at Noon, Tod­dler Mila­gre, who’s in a cast with the frac­tured femur, start­ed with vom­it­ing and diar­rhea again! His fever then ele­vat­ed, as we rushed him to the hos­pi­tal. Blood test showed that HIS MALARIA from 2 weeks ago had not been wiped out by the med­ica­tions! He is still in the hos­pi­tal and is expect­ed to be there at least 5 days for IV treat­ment. On Thurs­day morn­ing, Mila­gre start­ed to drink and eat with­out vom­it­ing. On Fri­day, his diar­rhea had great­ly decreased, so we were very hap­py with his progress.

Mila­gre suf­fers 2nd malar­ia case in 2 weeks.

Keep him in your prayers for a rapid recov­ery. He was due to have his cast off on Mon­day, but that will now be delayed until he can make the trip to Mon­tepuez (60km/30 miles) away for his final x‑ray and cast removal. It’s been a busy week, but we are hap­py that Jesus answered our prayers, and that all those affect­ed by malar­ia are improv­ing in strength and appetite. CIS LEADER DONATES CHILDREN’S CLOTHES TO OUR LITTLE ONES CIS Leader Drag­on returned from his hol­i­day last week, and sur­prised us with 2 large box­es of cloth­ing for our children.

Chil­dren’s cloth­ing donat­ed by Drag­on from CIS Company.

This is always a real bless­ing and we say THANK YOU to Drag­on for his heart for our chil­dren. BABY DOMINGOS LOVES TO PLAY BALL Your Love Gifts pro­vide toys that puts a smile on our children’s faces. Domin­gas is only 13 months old, but is walk­ing and try­ing to play ball. He hasn’t quite fig­ured out the catch­ing part, but he’s def­i­nite­ly good at throw­ing the ball!

Fos­ter Moth­er Gil­da with Domin­gas after a failed catch of the ball. He missed, but still laughing!

Domin­gas after he “cap­tured ” the ball.

THANK YOU ALL FOR MAKING IT POSSIBLE TO BUY TOYS FOR THESE CUTE LITTLE ONES.  BLESSINGS FROM BUSY BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE AND THE BALAMA STAFF