I apologize for the delay in updating about our young boy here in the village who was electrocuted. I have only received three updates from the family but the second one I found out just before our VBS started so I was not able to update right away.
The little guy had to have two toes from one foot amputated in addition to the surgeries when they amputated his arms. At that point, they told the Mom there would be no more surgeries. The doctors had decided to not operate on his stomach. I was also told that he kept asking his Mom where his arms were until she finally told him to ask the doctor. When the doctors told him that his arms had to be amputated the boy started crying, got angry, and refused to eat. That is when the doctor called in a psychologist and a psychotherapist to talk to him. They told the mother to treat him just as she did before the accident and not to make a handicapped person out of him, meaning not to baby him or treat him differently now that he has lost his arms. So, at that point I was told he was still in ICU but was stable.
Fast forward to yesterday, Saturday, June 11th. Our week of VBS had just ended and we made a quick stop at our house to unload all the tables and equipment from the day's activities. then quickly jumped back into the car to make visits to the kids who come to Sunday school but were not at VBS that day. We stopped by this little boy's cousin's house as we do every Saturday to see if he had returned from visiting his Dad in the city yet. While there I thought I would ask the SS boy's Mom (the victim of the accident's Mom) if there were any changes in his condition. She told me the doctors ended up amputating yet a third toe from the one foot, as well as, more of his one arm that was initially amputated to the elbow. Now, he has completely lost both arms and they even had to remove more tissue above the shoulder joint from what the aunt said. She said that the skin cells are dying and the damage is more than it was previously. This just broke my heart. I can not be sure I was getting completely clear information from the aunt but still, the fact remains that now he has no arms at all. It seems to me that he is not as stable if they are saying the tissue is still dying and they had to remove more.
The aunt said she wanted to wait until they put him into a regular room and then she asked if we could go to the hospital together so that we could take him some healthy food and snacks. I wanted to visit him as well, but, we all have been waiting to avoid having to go into the ICU one at a time so that we can visit with him and his mother. We will be sure to update if we hear more news or are able to visit him.
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