this is Pamèla...

In our latest newsletter* we asked you to pray for Pamèla. She is a young girl at our church whose family we've grown to love. Her mom and dad both work hard at demanding jobs, and her older brother, Cristian, and younger brother, Olman, have always tried to make us feel welcome. When Pamèla first broke her arm in January, everyone thought she would be in a cast for a few weeks and that would be all. But an x-ray revealed a spot in her arm that has doctors worried, so she was admitted to the hospital for surgery & a biopsy. 


That was over a month ago. And here's the part about which Bart & I are still trying to "patiently adapt to the culture" in Honduras: Pamèla still hasn't had her surgery...or biopsy...and we don't know why. We have visited her every week for the past 3 weeks, expecting to walk in and see her arm bandaged from surgery, but it's still in the same original cast. And she just smiles meekly and tells us she 'hopes it will be soon.'

And so she waits in a large room filled with small beds tightly packed, side by side, in Hospital Escuela. If you've been to Hospital Escuela, you know it's not the most pleasant place in the world. Yes, there are many dedicated doctors who try to provide the best care possible, but the place itself is pretty depressing. 

Please pray for Pamèla: that she will have her surgery and biopsy soon, so that she can go home. And especially that her biopsy will come back with good results, that this is nothing more than a broken arm. 

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md