Maate

this smiling young man is really sick. He's 15 years old and weighs about 20kg or about 45 lbs. We've been treating him for about a month with TB therapy based on his Chest XRay but he's not getting any better infact he's getting worse, but these days his main complaint is his abdomen, he's so think you can see the pockets of air/gas moving through his intestines and causing him pain. Jennifer's not sure what else we can do with what little we have in Nyahuka as far as diagnostics go, so she got on her cell phone, called International Hospital in Kampala and got the director of the HOPE ward there to agree to take him in their "no payment" required program. Problem: we're not sure we can get a male relative to go with Maate and his mom, for protection and provision and translation, etc. Please pray that they come up with someone to send and that we can get him to Kampala ASAP. I stayed behind after Jennifer and Scott left to make sure that Maate understood why we were sending him to Kampala and where we were sending him and that it's the best hospital in Kampala and that they'll take good care of him, and that I didn't want him to be scared. Often in health care, we talk over/about patients and not TO them, he's 15 and very capable of understanding what's going on, enough that he had this look of fear/pain on his face, but then as I was leaving after we chatted (via. translation) I did the double hand wave and smile, and I got a smile and wave back...such a great kid...please pray!