alex

i would really appreciate your prayers for alex. he is an 18 year old who came in today. he has a horrible infection in his hand. it is swollen almost twice the size. he was working with a machete, got a blister, broke the blister and has had this for the last 21 days. obviously getting worse every day. it is open and has so much pus draining out, i worked on it for 30 minutes helping some of the infection drain and started him on IV antibiotics. . . but he really needs to see a surgeon. if it isn't somewhat better by tomorrow we will probably have to send him to one of the local hospitals. the problem always with everyone going to the hospitals is they don't have money. with no money they don't usually get treated.