This is Elina. She is one of the last two remaining plastics patients still patiently receiving care on our wards. Her wounds aren’t healing and has had to go back for multiple surgeries. Elina is a sweet little girl who, a little over a year ago, was thrown into a fire. We don’t know all of the details of her story but she suffered severe burns all over her body. However, she is a survivor! Due to little medical help or access to phsyio therapy she developed burn contractures on her neck and right axilla/armpit. Her surgery consisted of releasing the burn contractures and using healthy skin from the thighs to be transplanted onto her neck and axilla. In her time here, she has developed infections and her skin grafts have not fully taken. Please be praying for her new skin, that she would be free from infection and that her new skin would take! When I first met Elina, she was so shy and wouldn’t let anyone besides her mother, touch her. For obvious reasons, she had some trust issues. She has been in the hospital for a while now and has since become very comfortable here. She has opened up and is lively in the way every child should be! Elina and her mother have spent a long time here and have been very patient in her healing. This little girl has so much to offer and a bright future ahead of her but we need these skin grafts to heal! Please pray along with us! Today she has her first dressing change since the last surgery, so I pray that everything looks promising!
I have loved my time on the ship so far and have enjoyed getting to know each of the patients that I’ve been able to take care of. As much as I love and miss my family and friends back home, I cannot imagine my Mercy Ships journey being over this June. I am very excited to announce that I have accepted a position as Clinical Ward Educator for the next field service in Benin! I, along with one other educator, will be in charge of orienting all the new nurses, orienting the day crew/translators to the hospital, and organizing weekly medical inservices for continued education for the medical crew. I am very excited to be able to continue to work with Mercy Ships! I will need help, financially and spiritually, in the next year as I continue this journey. I ask that you would consider supporting me financially as I continue my journey in west Africa! I thank all of you back home supporting me these past months and I would not have been able to do any of this without your love and support! I feel it everyday here in Madagascar and will need it again in Benin! Thanks for following along with me in my journey here, I will continue to keep everyone updated as I continue!
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