In today’s update, we are featuring information regarding an incredibly intelligent and sweet girl by the name of Falee.
Falee arrived at the abandoned baby unit 2 and a half years ago with a serious eye injury. After many months inside the ABU We were able to get permission, after complying with the Haitian paperwork requirements, to move her to a Mercy & Sharing orphanage.
Mercy & Sharing immediately had her evaluated by our doctors in Haiti. Apparently her right eye is dislodged from the socket and was somehow pushed back near the edge of her brain and membrane It took 6 more months to work through the bureaucracy (details available) of getting a passport and Visa for Falee. Mercy & Sharing reached out to numerous doctors and medical institutions in the United States to try and get her treatment. The doctors who did the initial evaluation of Falee believe that her eyesight in her right eye could be restored and that her right eye is potentially not damaged because she sees some sort of a light from the right eye even though it is lodged near her brain.
After none of the hospitals contacted approved Falee for their charitable program perform the necessary surgery for Falee’s right eye, so we turned to the hospitals in the Dominican Republic to see if we could place her there for the operation. A hospital in the Dominican Republic agreed to take her into their care and to perform the operation, but due to travel restrictions between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, her travel to the Dominican Republic hospital was delayed while we put together her paperwork. The paperwork was completed early in January, and we funded the costs for her travel to the Dominican Republic and for the surgery.
Then the earthquake hit.
Falee was evacuated to the Williamson project. A couple days after she arrived she had seizures and was treated at the mobile medical clinic that we have located at the Williamson project. The medicine needed to control her seizures had nearly run out, and so we were frantic to try and find someone who would look at her and hopefully perform the necessary operation. Two days ago, through God’s hands and Dr. Rodriguez (our Cuban born doctor who lost 4 members of her family), we were able to get her admitted to a Haitian hospital. Unfortunately, the Haitian hospital was unable to perform the necessary operation because of the high level of equipment that was needed, and the lack of adequate equipment and surgical facilities in the Haitian hospital.
Dr. Rodriguez has a colleque on board the USNS Comfort, the U.S. Navy hospital ship that arrived off the coast of Port-au-Prince Haiti on January 20 and began receiving injured victims of the earthquake. Initially we were told that she would not be allowed to go to the USNS Comfort because they were focusing on trading earthquake victims. Through God’s miraculous work, Dr. Rodriguez was successful in getting them to agree to take her on board, and we are asking for prayers that they will be able to perform the necessary operation and fix her eye.
Falee is an incredibly intelligent girl, and is very mild-mannered. She simply wants to be a little girl and enjoy the pleasures of life that other children have, to dress up in pretty clothes, to play with her toys and dolls, and we ask that everyone please pray that the US Navy doctors will be able to fix her eye and allow her to lead a normal life. Some photos of Falee are attached. It has only been through your donations to www.haitichildren.com that we have been able to care for this child. Thank you for your continued support.
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