Grace

I blogged a little about Grace last week. She lives in Kipsongo slum, is HIV+, has TB, is only eighteen and has no one to take proper care of her. She has been unable to walk for two months because she is so weak and she can barely talk. She is literally skin and bones and you can see all the pain she feels written all over her face. The instant we saw her our hearts broke and we knew that there had to be a way to help her get back on her feet, but how.  We went back last week to see how she was doing and her brother told us that he had taken her to the district hospital to be treated. He told us that they had placed her in ward 7, which is where the people with the most severe cases are taken. 

District Hospital is heartbreaking in itself. It is a government run hospital and at times it seems like the staff doesn’t care for their patients at all. We went and found Grace and she was lying in a broken bed looking even worse than she did when we first saw her. The other women in the room were sleeping two in a twin sized bed and looked almost as bad as Grace. One woman told us that if we didn’t get her help that she was going to die, and that only God can help her at this point. She had been there for nearly a week and no one had come to visit her. We knew that she couldn't get adequate care at District Hospital so we found Grace another option.

We got her discharged and took her to another hospital today. It is called Cherangany Nursing Home and we are hoping that there she can get the care she needs. She has her own bed, the hospital is clean and they will actually treat her there. It is a little expensive, but now she will have good meals so she can take her ARV’s and other medicine so that she can start getting healthy and strong again. Thank you to all who decided to support Grace and show her God’s love through your gifts. I will keep you all posted on her progress and please remember to keep her in your prayers this week.