Greetings to you all who are still following our exploits. We have been without stable internet access for over a week and it has been incredibly frustrating. Today I invested in a new modem and it seems to have fixed the problem for now. We have posted a photo of Jethro aged two weeks and you can see he is making good progress. On Monday 28th Feb. a call was received from the police with another baby to care for. He is named Ethan and he was about two months old and severely malnourished weighing only 1.2 kg. Pita took incredible care of him, feeding him 5mls every hour for the first day, then increasing it slowly through a tube as he did not know how to suck. On Thursday he went with Pita to the Drs as he was struggling and certain complications were discovered.
However I want to tell you about Friday.
It started out as normal with an assembly at 8am with the primary school, home for breakfast, then back at 11am for assembly with the nursery school. After this I went down to the containers to do some sorting while Marilyn made some preparations for our daughter Jen who was arriving on Saturday, so we thought. It happened that Marilyn was near the computer and noticed that Scott (Jen's fiance) was on skype, so she sent him a message only to get a reply that he had just dropped Jen off at the airport and she was arriving TODAY. So she came and got me from the containers about 2pm, Richard had come home sick so we needed to take him to the Drs, and we needed to leave by about 4pm to be sure of getting there in time (you never know what the traffic is like in Kampala). We took Owen and Hope with us and managed to make it in good time.
It was sooooo nice to see her and we have enjoyed many late nights talking and catching up. Of course the boys were still up when we arrived home but finally they were all in bed by about 10.30pm.
At 11pm Piet called us to say that Ethan was not doing well, so we went up to give support and to pray. Boy did he battle, his poor little body was struggling to breath and he would not give in. Eventually, however, at 1.05am Ethan stopped breathing, the battle was over. For us it brought back memories of our dear wee Raghma, but this wee boy had too much to deal with. The only comfort we could get from this situation was that he knew love in the last few days of his life, real love. Pita had devoted so much to this wee boy, at some cost to herself, it is taking a long time for the batteries to be recharged. Renske also gave a lot of time and energy to this boy. On top of that, another girl arrived on Friday, Bonisa, who is well nourished and is doing well, but was unwanted by her family, so once again the police called NACMU.
So for us Friday 4th March was a day of tremendous highs and lows, but we feel privileged to be here and to be part of God's work in this place.
Better be off to bed now, till next time
God Bless
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