- Age4
- Conditiona bone condition
- Next Appointment 09/23/2018
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CURE in Malawi
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Lorina's Story
“My friends laugh at me. I don’t know why,” Lorina says.
“When I was pregnant with Lorina, I saw a scorpion in my clothes, and when we tried looking for it to kill it, we couldn’t find it. The next day, my mother-in-law told me th… Read more
“My friends laugh at me. I don’t know why,” Lorina says.
“When I was pregnant with Lorina, I saw a scorpion in my clothes, and when we tried looking for it to kill it, we couldn’t find it. The next day, my mother-in-law told me that she had a dream where some witches came surrounding my house while I was inside. All these things made me wonder. I believe my daughter’s disability started then,” says Lorina’s mother, Maleni.
“My daughter was born healthy, but after three years I noticed her deformity developing. I took her to a district hospital, and there they asked me if by any chance she had fallen down. I told them that she never fell down. They continued asking me how she was born, and I said she was born normally, and they asked if the doctors said anything was wrong during the birth, and I said I was not told anything. The doctors said, ‘If you have enough courage, you should come so that we can cut her leg wide open so that we can see what is wrong.’ I decided not to go, because I didn’t think as a doctor he should say it that way. I thought he could have been more sensitive and just say, ‘Come and we will try to help your child.’
“Fortunately, I met a man from an organization that helps people with disabilities (MACOHA), who gave me transport money to go to another hospital where I was seen by CURE doctors at an outreach clinic. The doctors gave me a date to come here to CURE. But since my husband and I depend on subsistence farming, we couldn’t afford transport money. I tried begging MACOHA to help me with transport, but they could not help. Since I wanted my daughter to be healed, we sold food and maize at home to raise money for transport, and that’s how I’m here today.”
Lorina has a condition known as pseudoarthrosis, or false joint. It has caused her tibia to bend in a sharp angle. It is one of the most difficult orthopedic conditions we treat at CURE Malawi because just cutting the bone straight and putting in a bone graft doesn’t work, as overactive cells in the bones keep the two pieces from healing together. She will be given special medication to stop these cells from eating away at the bone graft so it will heal together properly, but this means her surgery will be delayed a couple weeks until the medication starts working.
“Lorina’s friends mock her, saying, “You dog with a bent leg! Don’t play with us.” And even older people say her grandmother, who was taking care of us, was reckless because she didn’t notice the problem when Lorina was born. This is very painful to me, since the deformity wasn’t noticeable until she started walking. It is my wish that Lorina should go back to school after her leg is straight. Pray that my daughter gets well, and also pray that the two year old son I left at home will be protected by God.”
Please join us in praying for Lorina and Maleni as we work to heal Lorina physically and share the gospel with her and her mother!
Latest Updates
Lorina went home on Friday but she got a couple of lovely messages from a Vacation Bible School in the US (with a photo of a golden retriever) so we made sure to read that and her other messages to her before she left! This was her response. https://youtu.be/27Iyy0JQaPc
We got a picture of Lorina and her mom for you since we realized yesterday that we haven't posted any photos of them together! They've been discharged home but before they left Storyteller Avanell made sure to give Lorina a mandasi (donut) since she couldn't have one before her surgery! She sweetly said "Thank you" in very good English! They'll be back in three months for Lorina to have more of the medication, but in three weeks she'll be going to 500 Miles for a special orthotic called a clamshell to hold her leg in place while it heals. Please pray she makes all her appointments as it's very important for her healing!
We read Lorina her get-well messages today since she will probably get to go home tomorrow! She says, "They should keep praying for me." And her mother Maleni says, "I'm happy the leg is like this now. I also wish for them to continue praying so that Lorina may be healed." We asked Lorina what she'll do when she gets home and she says, "I'll play zawana (pretend house) with Zione!"
We spoke to Maleni and asked her if her spiritual life has improved since she came. She says, "The prayers we have here have helped me, but just a little bit. I still feel like I can't pray on my own. I have a lot to learn." Please pray that our Spiritual team will be able to explain to her that God is always willing to listen and there's nothing to keep us from speaking to Him! In the meantime we asked if she had any prayer requests for us to help her with, and she told us, "Please pray that I will be helped with my facial tumor at Queens Hospital and that it will be successful. I'm supposed to go today but every time I leave Lorina with another mom she starts crying. I don't know what to do."
Maleni has a condition called neurofibromatosis (tumors in the nervous system), which has caused a benign tumor (a neurofibroma) on her face. Neurofibromatosis is hereditary and is what has caused Lorina's pseudoarthrosis. When Maleni came in, Dr. James referred her to Queens since we don't treat adults or deal with facial tumors, so hopefully they'll be able to help her if Lorina lets her go for a while! Please be praying for them!
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