blinking

James is one of the little guys with Kwashiorkor at the Clinic.  He has been improving I think (swelling weight has gone down and weight has started going up again without the swelling accompanying the weight gain).  But each day when I see him, he sits on his bed and it looks like he's doing everything he can to blink...that it takes all the energy he has in his tiny little body to close his eyes and open them again...the blink of his eyes each time is noticeable, when any of the rest of us blink it goes pretty much unnoticed, but each of his is deliberate; this little one is hanging on for dear life in a way I have never seen before.