Hitting the Wall
Everyone reading this blog has faced challenges in their lives. Challenges come in many forms–some can be life changers others just ruin your day. A grandmother came to our clinic and asked for help for her and her granddaughter. When she told her story, she unfolded a story of the struggle to survive. She was poor–not U.S. poor. Her challenge was NOT about living with only one family car or having basic cable service. She could not ask for a free phone. She was destitute. She had nothing. Let me put that in caps — NOTHING.
She had stooped to the lowest place to provide food for her and her granddaughter. She came to the clinic and her story took an even worse turn She and her granddaughter both tested positive for leprosy — talk about “hitting the wall”.
They are now staying at the Hohidiai leprosy rehabilitation housing and are receiving good care, but, they are not responding to the leprosy medications. They have faced so much. Now they need a breakthrough. Our hearts go out to these, the poorest-of-the-poor, and it’s our honor to serve them. I hope to give a better update in the future as they start to respond to the daily medications given to them to cure the leprosy.