On Friday the 9th of December, we had our last
clinic of the year at Wabwoko in Kayunga district, which is 1hr 30mintues
outside of Jinja.
The clinics attendance amazes us, according to our
books we have 300 people registered for this clinic. Sadly, only 150 attend
this clinic on a regular basis.
We are still
working hard to get parents to accept that if their child takes medication
every day at the right time. Parents often delay to bring their child to a clinic;
very few parents bring their child every month. They sadly find it hard to
understand that it takes commitment to see an impact in their child’s life.
Many parents are still looking for a one off miracle of healing in the lives of
their child. Instead of learning how to manage the epilepsy. Some parents wait two months before coming to
a clinic and when the child starts having severe seizures they come back. Our
monthly attendance is 150!
Betty is one patient who has decided to work hard at
managing her epilepsy, every month she comes to a clinic and has committed herself
to take her medication every day at the right time. On Friday she shared with
the other parents, she explained she now leads a full life, and is happy and
healthy. She went onto to explain that before she started taking her epilepsy medication
daily she would have 5-10 seizures a day now she can through a month without a
seizure and the last time was two months ago.
It is such a great encouragement for parents when
they hear from someone they know and have seen before taking medication.
Our hearts
desire for 2012 is that parents will start believing that management is just as
good as a cure and that it will change the child’s life forever.
We feel so humbled at the end of every year because
the parents find their way to say thank you, it’s such an amazing humbling
people who have nothing just want to come and bring you things to say thank you
for helping their child. It just amazes
me by their generosity we do not do the work for rewards the reward is to see
the difference in these people’s lives.
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| patients waiting for clinic to start |
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| chairman of parents association giving thank you speach |
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| humbling experince of being given gifts of thank you for the work soh has done |
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| SOH christmas presents for the patients |
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| parent recieving soap, each book for a patient recieves one soap |
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| preparation- coutning pills whilst we are waiting for patients to come |
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| child with hydrocalpheus |
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| Physiotherapy/ developemental exercise clinic |
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