update on kwelywoh

Since I'm updating, I think it's only fair to let you know what's going on with Kwelywoh. While his friend Moses is headed home in the next few days, happy and healthy (except for his lopsided eyes, which we can't do anything about but which do lend him a certain air of whimsy), Kwelywoh's road has turned out to be rather longer.

He's not doing as well as we'd like. The hole in the front of his skull, where his brain was poking out before the surgery, has stayed open. The gap allows the fluid from around his brain, CSF, to leak out, causing swelling and sometimes dripping from his nose and eyes. There's a huge risk of infection, and it's not good for the pressure around the brain to be changing constantly, which is one side effect of this leak.

He went back to the operating room today to have a small drain placed over his eye. (Not sure when Amy's arms got so long, but she did manage to take this photo and be in it at the same time.) This procedure isn't something we usually do here in Liberia, and it's not something he can go home with when we leave in a few weeks. We're out of options at this point.

And so we're back to our old standby; we'll pray for a miracle until one happens. Given the things I've seen in the last nine months, I'm figuring it's not such a long shot.