Hey everyone!
This trip has been so mind-blowing and incredible! God has completely wrecked me and stretched me in ways that i didnt even know was possible. I will try to keep this short so I will only tell you about the most recent and most impacting thing for me this trip.
We were in the village of Castilla from the 17th through the 19th of July. On the 17th, we heard about a boy who needed medical attention and gave money for him to go to Iquitos.
The next day we recieved word that he had died. His name was Urelo, he was 16 years old, and he died at 1AM on the 18th.
He had had his wisdom teeth pulled about a month before, and the area had become infected. It was a rapidly progressing infection, because he had left home to do some work for 3 days and had come back with his face swollen and painful. His mother then tried several different herbal remedies that were inneffective. Eventually, the infection spread to his bloodstream and most likely caused multi organ failure resulting in his death.
Some of you know that I am a Nurse. I work in a nursing home and see death a lot, so death really doesnt bother me too much, but for some reason this time, it wrecked me. I started to wonder why the team couldnt have been there 2 weeks earlier so we could have done something, anything. I was angry that he had to die from a tooth infection, something so small and so easily fixed, and he died. I was questioning everything so much. I still dont understand. I also didnt understand why it took a month to send him to the hospital.
I have been to Peru one other time with AIM, and it was there that God showed me I needed to go into nursing, and I am so much more convinced of that now. I Am using this incident to grow and pursue the dream God has for me. I WILL finish my school and I WILL be back in Peru. I do not want little things like a tooth infection to be a cause for the death of a child, friend, brother, or sister.
This continues to be difficult for me, But I know that God is pushing me forward in this area of my life, and I know that this is Gods plan for me.
Family, Things will be different when I get home!
Love you all!
Susan
