This day started out with the arrival of good friends baby. Negran was three years old and had been sick on and off since birth. He had had a fever for about a week and would not eat. He was brought to our home and in the picture above Melinda and Dr.Touissant were working together to try and find an IV site. Much to our sorrow this precious little boy died due to a fever of 108 degrees. We held a funeral for him that day and did our best to comfort the family. THE FOLLOWING PHOTO MAY BE DISTURBING
While we were preparing for Negran's funeral another baby arrived. She was born with anacephilis, and literally had no skull. Her cerebrum was outside of her head and her body was terribly misproportioned. We knew that she did not have a chance at life, so Melinda cleaned her up and wrapped her up and sent her home to spend her short life with her family.
In the same 24 hour period, this little girl was brought to our door. She had a severe scalp infection that was putrid and parts of her scalp had rotted and were falling off. We managed to clean her up and she actually provided some comic-relief from the stressful last 24 hours when she called Melinda the devil!
She came back for several more days for follow-up treatments.
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