First of all Thank you for all your prayers and emails. We have been overwhelmed and amazed at the number of people who have been praying for Joshua and us over the last week.
This time last week we had no idea what was coming!
Joshua woke up Tuesday morning with a sore throat and a bit of a temperature so I sent him back to bed and did school with Luke and Hannah. Ben phoned the SIM doctor as Josh also said his tongue was sore too. He said he could see Josh at 3pm.
Ben went off to Yagma as normal but when he got home I had already noticed Joshua's tongue was swollen and he was struggling to talk. Ben phoned the SIM doctor straight away and took him around to the doctors house. The doctor said he had an infection and sent us to a local clinic where they hooked him up to a drip to get the swelling down, relieve the pain and give the antibiotics.
Ben phoned me from the clinic and said that Josh would need to stay in the clinic that night and could I get a few things together. Apparently he was more upset about missing Luke's birthday than anything else!
The clinic is only a few minutes walk from the house which was fortunate as Ben had the car and I walked down there with Luke and Hannah. Josh was lying on the bed in a private room and watching TV.
Ben then headed off to SIM (also just round the corner) to get some money to pay a kind of deposit for Josh staying there (no NHS here!) and let various folk know what was going on.
I stayed with Joshua each night and then Ben stayed with him during the day so I could do school with the other two.
Joshua continued to have a high temperature, a swollen and sore tongue most of Wednesday and was very quiet and sleepy, but was much better by Thursday afternoon and able to come home on Friday.
While we were in the clinic lots of people popped in from SIM bringing books, comics, ice cream and soup. One of our friends came to see Josh just before the doctor arrived and was able to help me explain in French some of Joshua's medical history.
When we were in the UK after living in France, Joshua noticed that he had a lump on his tongue and he kept on catching it on his teeth. We took him to the doctors who referred him to an Oral specialist who said that it was tonsil tissue and that he could remove it. We explained that we were going to live in Africa and he said they could not do it before we went and that there was no rush. We think (but are not sure) that Joshua has had tonsillitis and as he has tonsil tissue on his tongue that is why his tongue swelled up so much. The doctor at the clinic did want to do a further investigation but we are not keen for him to have any surgery out here so are looking in to having it done in the UK.
Joshua is still tired and his tongue is not quite back to normal but we are grateful for the love and support of friends and family and thankful to God for the strength he has given us in Him.
Please pray for wisdom for the next step.
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