{"id":3232,"date":"2019-01-10T13:45:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T19:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hopeold.tadtime.dev\/?p=3232"},"modified":"2019-01-10T13:45:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T19:45:48","slug":"january-10th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/january-10th\/","title":{"rendered":"January 10th"},"content":{"rendered":"

January 10th\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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For devotions last night I asked all the team to share how God has impacted them on this trip so far and it warmed my heart to hear what a big part God has been in this trip.<\/p>\n

The team was excited to head out on safari this am and they were all very excited.\u00a0 <\/span>They are\u00a0going to see God\u2019s beauty of Africa.\u00a0 I am so happy for them.\u00a0 Jenny, Pat, John and I stayed back to go to Selian to work. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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We started out day as usual in the chapel.\u00a0 <\/span>What an awesome way to start your day with prayers and singing.\u00a0 <\/span>These people have the most beautiful and angelic voices that it brings tears to my eye.\u00a0 <\/span>They then give report on the new admits.\u00a0 <\/span>Then Jenny gave an awesome CME on\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Neurotic Syndrome.\u00a0 <\/span>She is an awesome teacher and the doctors and residents really enjoyed her talk.\u00a0 <\/span>This is what Hope Ministries is all about and all doctors have done such beautiful job.\u00a0 <\/span>This is how we can make a lasting impact in the health care of Tanzania.\u00a0 <\/span>We then went to the ward to do postop rounds.\u00a0 <\/span>It was great to see the patients that we have done surgery on and they were smiling and so grateful.\u00a0 <\/span>They kept saying \u201cMungu Akubariki\u201d which means God bless you.\u00a0 <\/span>Now I know why I kept coming back to Africa.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Pat and I went to the wards and then spent time with the nurses.\u00a0 <\/span>Very interesting to see what very very little charting they do.\u00a0 <\/span>We were shocked when they told us there were only two nurses that were caring for all the patients on the ward.\u00a0 <\/span>One nurse was responsible for doing all the dressing changes and wound care.\u00a0 <\/span>I did some bedside teaching on wound care.\u00a0 <\/span>We then went around with the nurse that did all the dressing change.\u00a0 <\/span>It is amazing how they use honey to put in the wounds to prevent infections and aid in healing.\u00a0 <\/span>The patients have to purchase all of their supplies so they come with their bottle of honey. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tomorrow I need to go and pay for all the surgeries, diagnostics tests and treatments.\u00a0 <\/span>We had a lady that came to one of our outreach that was having female problems and was begging us for help because she had no money.\u00a0 <\/span>She has not been to a doctor before.\u00a0 <\/span>So I gave her money to catch the bus and come see the doctors on Monday.\u00a0 <\/span>Then Mary and the OB\/GYN from TZ did an observation and determined that patient had a very suspicious cervix for cancer.\u00a0 <\/span>We then sent her to surgery for a cervical biopsy.\u00a0 <\/span>Then he came to me after her surgery and said that the patient was requesting to see me.\u00a0 <\/span>She thought she had the surgery and it was going to cure her.\u00a0 <\/span>Sorry to say the doctor is afraid it is stage 3 or 4 cervical cancer with metastasis and that it is a poor prognosis.\u00a0 <\/span>I was so sad and this women hugged and thanked me and all of the team.\u00a0 <\/span>She thought the surgery cured her and had to explain we had to wait to hear the biopsy report.\u00a0 <\/span>She prayed for someone to come help her and she saw us as her light of hope.\u00a0 <\/span>This is was tears at my heart, because the prognosis is not going to be good.\u00a0 <\/span>Please include her in your prayers.<\/p>\n

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God bless all of Hope Ministries donors.\u00a0 <\/span>You truly have helped so many people.\u00a0 <\/span>The patients stories are sad but many had good outcomes and we were able to help them. \u00a0 <\/span>Praise God!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

January 10th\u00a0   For devotions last night I asked all the team to share how God has impacted them on this trip so far and it warmed my heart to hear what a big part God has been in this trip. The team was excited to head out on safari this am and they were … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}