This morning was the day that Steve went to the hospital for his continuing education classes. He talked to Dr. Owusu about Warihana’s case and showed him the picture of her ulcerated leg. Steve told him that her father wanted to remove her leg; Steve said that he could tell that Dr. Owusu was against removing her leg. He said that the family could meet with the surgical team at Yendi if they wanted too.
Warihana’s father came to the mission house this morning after he had been to town to find out the cost of the antibiotics. Warihana is now 16 years old and she has to take twice as many antibiotics as she used to have to take which makes the medicine even more expensive. The health insurance does not pay for these antibiotics. Steve gave her father the money that he needed to buy the medicine. He said that he wanted to take her back to Tamale to the doctor that did the surgery with the cement that was treated with antibiotics to see if he would remove her leg. This doctor did all that he could do to save the leg and finally he gave the medical records to Warihana’s father so he could take them to other doctors in case he could find another doctor to treat her leg.
Dawda, the mason is sick, he is coughing and can hardly speak but he still comes to work. This morning he asked for some raw ginger so he could chew on it to try to relieve the cough. I gave him the ginger but I also gave him some cough drops. When we talked to him yesterday we made him wear a mask because we don’t want to get whatever he has!
When Red came yesterday he told me that he had something to show me. When I went outside I was met by the cutest rabbit / mouse you ever saw. He made it out of scrap metal. Its head and body were made from bicycle rims; his feet were sprockets; he had metal whiskers, cute little eyes and nose. He even had a little tail. I could not tell if it was supposed to be a mouse or a rabbit and I did not want to ask because I did not want to insult him. Of course I had to buy it to go with the long legged birds and pig he made last year.
Timothy Niligrini called and said that the mechanic got the well pump at Kulkpeni running again. The well has a hand pump. The people in the community were too cheap to contribute to fixing the well so they were drinking from a different well but they said that the water from that well was salty and they did not like it; they did not think it would be a good idea to use the salty water for the seminar so we paid to have the well fixed.
Have a great day!
In His Service,
Steve and Kandie
