Another Child Touches My Heart

On Thursday, at clinic, I met the cutest little 5 year old boy ever. He was super shy and just so adorable. He was a healthy child but he was missing one of his legs below the knee. It was from a birth defect and it affected one of his hands and part of his other leg also. I can't describe what a cutie this little boy was and something about him just pulled at my heart strings. Out here, if you don't have a leg your life is bound to be really tough. The poor boy didn't even have crutches and can't move about. His Left leg which is only partially there is incredibly painful at the end and therefore it hurts him to crawl around on it.

I took some pictures of this little boy and I am going to try and convince an Aid organization to help out if I can. I'm also going to order him some children's crutches (the kind that go on the arm) so he can at least move around and be a semi-normal child. If anyone knows a connection let me know, otherwise I'm just going to order them on-line for him.

We also saw and treated the normal gamut of patients and we got to hand out some new clothes. I decked my favorite baby out in clothes from Andrew (my boss) and his wife Laura. I gave him his first pair of shoes and I wish I had a video of him looking at his feet like "what the heck are these things." He wasn't sure if he wanted to eat them, play with them, or take them off. It was hilarious.

Other than that not to much else is going around. We've been playing Volleyball everyday at 3:00 and I've discovered that a being a professional volleyball player is not in my near future :) I am horrible but at least I have fun doing it!

Hope everything is going well for everyone.