Dear group,
I have missed sending out the last couple of reports. These last few weeks in the community have been good. We were able to help many people get to the doctor and get help for various things. There are a couple cases I am going to share with you. The first is 9 year old Ellie who fell about a week ago and fractured her wrist. We got her to the hospital for an x ray and cast with a sling, and this Monday she goes back for another x ray to make sure it is healing right. If not she will need to have surgery. We are praying that it will heal with the cast since Ellie comes from a single parent family and they do not have the local health insurance here. Another women came to me from a surrounding community with a very serious vaginal infection that has going on for the past two years every since she had a c section. We were able to find a women doctor in town for the examination, which makes it much easier and comfortable for women to go get checked. She is on quite a few medications and creams and reports feeling much relieve. The follow up appointment is next week and then to follow will be a pap smear to check for any thing else. Another women was seen and had an ultrasound done who needs to get her gallbladder taken out. Unfortunatly she does not want to have the surgery and choose to get some medications for the pain. It wont be long until she eventually will have to get it out. Her and her husband are aware of that and choose to wait. This is very common here for people to wait till the last minute and then they end up in the emergency room at the hospital. > > The family of 8 I have been reporting on with the father who broke his ankle are struggling. With no money becuase the father is out of work and lots of frustration and worrying I found out the father went ahead and took his cast off three weeks early with the attempt to go back to work. Unfortunalty he is still not able to walk and now does not know what to do. He does not want to put the cast back on and I have offered to bring him a banage to wrap it. Honestly I am not sure how I can help this family, it is hard when people do not follow through with their treatments, but also understandable the responsiblity and pressure illness puts on a family. > > I want to thank all those who continue to donate to the people at campo. It always seems money comes in just as it is needed. The day before 9 year old Ellie fractured her wrist I got a check for $150. Thank you,
Emily