Faith

A few weeks ago I had blogged about receiving 3 new girls; Faith, Elizabeth, and Deborah.  What I didn’t have a chance to write about was Faith’s story.  Faith was  abandoned in a town about one hour from the Baby Center.  Apparently she had been thrown into a choo (outhouse).  She was thrown down into the hole and left for dead.  Eventually someone heard her down there and called the police to rescue her.  It’s amazing she didn’t drown.  Upon getting her out she was covered in maggots from head to toe.  They said that every orifice of her body had maggots in it and her stomach was bulging and hard from all of the maggots inside.  They took her to a local  hospital for treatment and were able to get her cleaned up and stabilized.  It looks like she was in there for over 24 hours.  Upon receiving her here at the Baby Center she looked mostly normal except her eyes were swollen and one eyelid was drooping.  We took her to Tenwek Hospital to see one of our Missionary ophthalmologists.  He said that her eyelids had grown into her corneas (this was due to the maggots having been in her eyes and causing an  infection).  He was able to cut the lids and cornea apart and we expect her to make a full recovery.  Currently she is doing really well.  ~Nicole