From: brenda@orphansunlimited.org
Date: Jan­u­ary 3, 2011 11:52:01 PM CST
Sub­ject: BBB update

On Christ­mas night, I came down with malaria.
Due to an inabil­i­ty to drink enough to keep hydrat­ed, I was admit­ted to the
Pem­ba hos­pi­tal for IV treat­ment.  The malar­ia was suc­cess­ful­ly killed out,
but the result was a bow­el block­age from being too dehy­drat­ed for 3 days.
Pem­ba is very lim­it­ed on the drugs they have, and had noth­ing to unblock it.
MISSIONS AVIATION FELLOWSHIP and GLOBAL RESCUE orga­nized to get me out on a
com­mer­cial air­line on Sun­day, weak but able to man­age to get to South
Africa for treatment.

The only flight avail­able was in Nam­pu­la due to hol­i­day traffic.
MAF picked flew out with only a 5 minute notice and got on line phar­ma­cy me to Nam­pu­la in
time to catch the com­mer­cial flight with 5 min­utes to spare!
Made for an excit­ing morn­ing to say the least.

A night in a great South African ER had every­thing under con­trol within
sev­er­al hours.
My thanks to Glob­al Res­cue for all the assis­tance they gave in get­ting the
flight and hos­pi­tal organized.

I will be fly­ing back to Moz. on Jan. 5th with Eric Dry, my Associate
Director.

Prayer played a BIG part in my fast recov­ery and the fact that surgery was
not need­ed to fix the problem.
I thank ALL of you for your prayers.
I felt God’s peace on me dur­ing the entire “adven­ture”.
This is one I have no desire to repeat for sure!
I will be releas­ing my USA speak­ing tour sched­ule in the next 2 weeks.
Real­ly look­ing for­ward to see­ing all of you!

Bless­ings, BB Brenda