This is “Izzy”. She is 7 years old and lives in North West Nicaragua. We are trying to prevent the amputation of her leg. Can you help?
My name is Margaret Boren, a nurse by background, the Founder and Director of a 501(c)(3) registered in the USA, “Circle of Empowerment”, and work with this organization in NW Nicaragua. I have served in Nicaragua an average of 9 months a year for the last 18 years. This is not just a job, but rather my life’s work, as I serve as a volunteer. I do this to give back to the people here that I have fallen in love with. In my opinion, when we have been blessed- and I have- we need to pass it on.
Izzy suffers from chronic osteomyelitis, an infection in the bone, which is difficult to treat. She has had this for 9 months, which was caused by a severe bump by children at play. The skin was not broken, but an infection ensued. She has gone through 4 separate surgeries in the medical system she has access to, but the infection persists, and further treatment consists of either an amputation or continuing the present treatment regimen for the rest of her life. She develops abscesses in the thigh every two weeks, resulting in severe pain, inability to function, and usually needing local incision and drainage, and medication, only to start another two weeks later.
Some dedicated medical specialists from an excellent private hospital are willing to try and address the problem at its source one more time, but it will be an expensive proposition, with as much as 40 days in the hospital, and proceeding with regular cultures to ensure we fight the correct pathogen. I expect the costs to be in the area of $10,000. I will fight for a discount and give you the hospital’s name if I am successful!
There are no guarantees, but with prayer and support, we might save her leg! For all of you that help and all of you that pray, we provide progress updates on our Facebook page and Circle of Empowerment website. Circle of Empowerment does so much good here in the areas of Health Education and Community development, but we are not funded to take on this big of a challenge without outside assistance. Our philosophy is to help the people help themselves. We are a brotherhood group that provides a hand up, and not based on hand outs. To donate, click any of the “Donate” buttons throughout our website which will direct you to our PayPal, or go to paypal.me/circleofempowerment.
My name is Margaret Boren, a nurse by background, the Founder and Director of a 501(c)(3) registered in the USA, “Circle of Empowerment”, and work with this organization in NW Nicaragua. I have served in Nicaragua an average of 9 months a year for the last 18 years. This is not just a job, but rather my life’s work, as I serve as a volunteer. I do this to give back to the people here that I have fallen in love with. In my opinion, when we have been blessed- and I have- we need to pass it on.
Izzy suffers from chronic osteomyelitis, an infection in the bone, which is difficult to treat. She has had this for 9 months, which was caused by a severe bump by children at play. The skin was not broken, but an infection ensued. She has gone through 4 separate surgeries in the medical system she has access to, but the infection persists, and further treatment consists of either an amputation or continuing the present treatment regimen for the rest of her life. She develops abscesses in the thigh every two weeks, resulting in severe pain, inability to function, and usually needing local incision and drainage, and medication, only to start another two weeks later.
Some dedicated medical specialists from an excellent private hospital are willing to try and address the problem at its source one more time, but it will be an expensive proposition, with as much as 40 days in the hospital, and proceeding with regular cultures to ensure we fight the correct pathogen. I expect the costs to be in the area of $10,000. I will fight for a discount and give you the hospital’s name if I am successful!
There are no guarantees, but with prayer and support, we might save her leg! For all of you that help and all of you that pray, we provide progress updates on our Facebook page and Circle of Empowerment website. Circle of Empowerment does so much good here in the areas of Health Education and Community development, but we are not funded to take on this big of a challenge without outside assistance. Our philosophy is to help the people help themselves. We are a brotherhood group that provides a hand up, and not based on hand outs. To donate, click any of the “Donate” buttons throughout our website which will direct you to our PayPal, or go to paypal.me/circleofempowerment.
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