This is the beautiful heart stealing Dieunika who we brought in (Air Mobile Ministries) from Haiti who needed a life saving surgery. She was born with a serious deformity in her bowel. Its such a miracle she's even alive. Her body amazingly formed its own disposal, a colostomy on her left side of her stomach.
Just to explain a little bit -Air Mobile Ministries a non profit that I adore and get the pure pleasure of working for does relief work. The majority focused on deploying the water purifiers that they manufacturer themselves right here in Titusville to disaster areas all over the world. Although they truly do SOOOO many things here in the community as well as international. Joe Hurston is the Pilot & his wife Cindy is a RN. They began in Haiti many years ago and still continue to go over monthly. They also work with an orphanage (run by an amazing lady named Barbara- and if you can't get enough you can read about the Hurstons daughter Cherie who just came back from a trip there here)
Anyhow Air Mobile Joe & another Joe on one of their recent visits encountered Dieunika in the villages. They just knew they had to help this beautiful gal! She has parents who love her dearly and are awaiting her return. She is the only child. They graciously lent her us to adore & love!
her doll lost the colostomy bag in the bed somewhere but she shyly shows you LOOK there's other girls like me!
If you didn't read my previous post, where i gush in plain ol mushy love about this absolutely adorable gal just scroll on down. She is only 2. She actually will be celebrating her 3rd birthday with us on May 2. (also my oldest sons b-day!)
These photos show you just how incredible this little one is! This is her on her 2nd day after surgery! SHE IS ABSOLUTELY an AMAZING GIRL!Astonishingly she was able to come home midday!
I spent the Fri & Sat with her and she was playing lightly,even smiling and giggling. i speak broken creole so we are able to communicate abit. Although most of the evening i just held her as she was obviously uncomfortable. She had some heavy meds around 11. She ate well that evening,slept well and Saturday she was back to SUNSHINE!
She's a super star, she's been all over the local news. of course they tend to focus on the donation value of the surgery!!
fox 35 did a great coverage of her but none online
www.wftv.com/news/15868742/detail.html --got scooped by fox so only a tiny reference
www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080411/...
oh and this is the doll named love!!
the first few days she was here she didn't really have much to play with (she was not used to toys anyhow) so i went home & made her a doll. she was a little unsure of it so she gave it to me to hold and i gave the doll a hug and said ohhhh love, love baby. the next day i came to see her, she was in the crib and picked up the doll to hand me as she smiled and said love! oh i just melted!! so now she is called baby love. TRULY though Dieunika is the doll named love!
2 comments:
emmy! What a wonderful thing to be a part of! She's GORGEOUS. I can't even stand it. So is she staying with you and you get to take care of her during her recovery, or how does that work? So beautiful to be a part of such life-changing work. Way to go, supermama!
what a beautiful little girl, she's so lucky to have your special care
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