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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“
DATE: SEPTEMBER 30, 2023
 
 
BABY ANCHA WITH POST MALARIA BLAHS DUE TO ANEMIA
 
After com­plet­ing the 3‑day course of malar­ia med­ica­tions last week, Baby Ancha’s strength didn’t spring back as is usu­al with tod­dlers. Instead, she remains tired, lacks an appetite, and is run­ning a low-grade fever in the late after­noons.

We took her to the hos­pi­tal for a post malar­ia lab test which came back neg­a­tive. That tells us that her symp­toms are com­ing from her low blood count. Malaria’s biggest tool for killing lit­tle ones is the post malar­ia ane­mia it can cause. Ancha is receiv­ing the max­i­mum pro­tein and vit­a­min sup­ple­ments that are avail­able, so now we must wait. 
 

18-month-old Ancha is not a hap­py camper. Ane­mia is slow to cor­rect itself.
 
Thir­ty days is a nor­mal recov­ery time for this type of ane­mia when tak­ing sup­ple­ments. Please keep her in your prayers.

 
BABY JUMAIDA GIVES US A SCARE
 
It is always a time to cel­e­brate when our very vul­ner­a­ble infants make it to the 5 kg./11 lb. mark! That means they are usu­al­ly strong enough to han­dle being out of their mos­qui­to net and thus out­side with her fos­ter fam­i­ly. 
 

Jumai­da dear­ly loves being out­side under the huge man­go tree at House # 7.
 
Thurs­day, 2 pm, Jumai­da pre­sent­ed with a lit­tle diar­rhea. She was giv­en the nor­mal oral treat­ment and seemed to be fine since she was tak­ing a bot­tle.  At 6 pm, I received a pan­icked call from Head House Moth­er Gil­da. Jumai­da had just filled her dia­per and tak­en a turn for the worse.  “Come quick­ly!” Gil­da said.

Rac­ing to House # 7, I knew Jumai­da need­ed IV flu­ids and med­ica­tions imme­di­ate­ly as she was almost non-respon­sive. Thank­ful­ly, the Emer­gency Room Direc­tor was work­ing, as he is excel­lent with start­ing infant IV’s. With IV flu­ids, elec­trolytes, and IV treat­ment for the diar­rhea, he had Jumai­da awake with­in 45 min­utes of our arrival! Thank you, JESUS!  What a relief it was to see her look­ing around as if ask­ing, “Where am I?” 
 

PRAYERS REALLY DO MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
 
There is no doubt in my mind that God’s Angels were watch­ing over our lit­tle Jumai­da, mak­ing sure that she was well tak­en care of. Dysen­tery is so easy to con­tract. As adults, we deal with the incon­ve­nience, take the med­i­cine to stop it, and don’t think much about it. To a 3‑month-old infant, 1 micro­scop­ic bac­te­ria from a sucked fin­ger is all it takes to start the process.

Jumai­da is an over­com­er, as this is her 2nd ill­ness need­ing hos­pi­tal­iza­tion.  She is one tough lit­tle girl for sure! PLEASE KEEP JUMAIDA IN YOUR PRAYERS, and I will keep you updat­ed.
 

WIDOWS AND THEIR FAMILIES POUND THE RICE FOR ORPHAN GIVE-OUT
 

Our church wid­ows work­ing hard so oth­ers can eat.
https://youtube.com/shorts/db5Jpyxcq7I
 

These young ladies make rhyth­mic pound­ing of rice look so easy!
https://youtube.com/shorts/e0BmL6vwKQ8
 
These pre­cious wid­ows and their grand­kids from our church worked very hard for 4 straight hours to de-hull 10 sacks of rice for the elder­ly orphan care­tak­ers whose “pil­lar­ing” days are over.  Pil­lar­ing is hard work, as those poles weigh around 10 kg./22 lbs. each! That’s why the video of the lit­tle girls shows them using short poles that aren’t so heavy. TO PILLAR or pound the rice, is to remove its hull so the seed (rice as you know it), can be cooked and eat­en. This week we had our first rice give-out. It went fair­ly smooth­ly even though we had to make many changes in our dis­tri­b­u­tion meth­ods.
 
LIFE IS ALWAYS CHANGING. ONLY THOSE WHO FLEX WITH IT WILL SURVIVE.
 
NOTE TO “LOVE GIFT” GIVERS: The August finan­cial report blessed me to tears!  
 
THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR CONTINING TO GIVE SO THAT OUR LITTLE ONES CAN HAVE A JESUS FUTURE.
 
BLESSINGS,
BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE
AND THE BALAMA STAFF