An Update On Our Current Patients

As we saw in an earlier post, 5 of our current patients have recently graduated!  Lets look at how the others are doing:

Sungwon Han

Mr Han is 43 years old.  He has been in MDR treatment for 36 months.  He was so ill that he became very close to dying.  He converted to negative approximately a year ago.  Because patients have to remain negative for 18 months - to 2 years before they are considered cured, he still has some time to go.  Please pray for the successful completion of his treatment.

Woncheol Jang 

Mr Jang is 44.  He has been very sick for a long long time and has been on the MDR program for 36 months.  When Ms Carpenter met him in April last year, he was on his last chance to convert, as he was not responding to his medication.  You can see him on the Hearts to Serve video at the moment that he is told, "after all this time, you are now TB negative".  You can see him bite his lip and hold himself together.  Imagine taking year after year of drugs and being sick.  You would begin to lose hope, and then you are told, "It's a new day.  There is hope for you".  Pray for Woncheol as it is possible for him to convert back to positive.  Pray that he gets well and is able to return home to his loved ones.

Seungae Lim

Ms Lim is 29 years old and is a nurse.  Her husband also has MDR TB.  She was enrolled in the MDR program in the fall of 2010.  Her last recorded test results showed her as positive and she is anxiously awaiting her results this spring.  You can also see her in the Hearts to Serve video.  Her message back to SFS said, "I am grateful to the school and the people in the school who send us this medicine".

Youngcheol Kim

Mr Kim is 50.  He has been in treatment for 36 months and has had a very rocky path in terms of his health.  He has tested negative but has unfortunately his last results show that he converted back to positive.  He is very sick.  Please pray for him.

Younghee Kim

Mrs Kim is 50 years old.  She has been in the MDR program for 12 months.  Her last test results were positive for MDR-TB and she is awaiting her Spring results to find out if she has converted.

Please keep our patients in your prayers ... they still have a long way to go until they are cured, but they are hopeful and working hard at taking their meds.  

SFS.  

You not only provide medicine ... 

you provide HOPE! 

 Lets keep encouraged and continue to come up with great ideas to fundraise for more patients!