I returned to Lubumbashi in July to find 11 year old Dieu Merci sick with malaria & a broken knee cap. He and I spent the next weeks riding in the taxi, back & forth to the clinic, and working to keep his fever down and watching DVDs together. Then just when we thought he was improving the symptoms came back and he was diagnosed with typhoid, another bout of malaria, and after his leg remained swollen we had it X-rayed again and the doctor discovered tuberculosis on the bone. So even though it was a very trying time and Dieu Merci is still taking medicine we are so grateful that the TB was found so that his leg & body can heal. Plus I am grateful to have been there to show him love in ways that he has not experienced since his mother died or left him when he was an infant.
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