Hello Friends
And Happy Youth Day.
Today is June 16th, a National Public Holiday in our country where we celebrate the strength and resilience of our youth.
How appropriate then that Mom has written a beautiful tribute to Tommy on her blog which can be read at http://thea-jarvis.blogspot.com/
Our visits went well today. Tommy says on a scale of Not depressed being a 1 and very depressed being a 10, he would say he is a 3. I think this is pretty remarkable really, I know many people in the world who would be a whole lot more depressed than that for a lot smaller reasons!
His face is looking so much better. They have cleared away most of the damaged skin and now you can really see the new skin. Whilst it is obvious there will be some discolouration of the skin, it will I believe not be as bad as it might have been. Thank you for all your prayers in this regard!
An interesting thing I noticed today was how the skin around his eyes and I believe his eyes as well was saved because he was wearing his glasses. It's amazing, he has perfect white lines where the glasses frames were over the bridge of his nose and along the sides of his head, it looks like a little racoon mask.
Out of curiosity I had a look at his glasses when I got back and they are destroyed. The frames are bent and buckled and the glass itself looks like it was sandblasted. These were new R5500 glasses, specially made for his eye condition, called Low Vision. I will be using some of the donations people have been sending to get a new pair made, as he is lost without them but the medical insurance will not cover a new pair so soon after the last ones.
Tomorrow he scheduled for another dressing of the hands and he is really stressed about that as the last one was so painful. I have asked the nurse to mention this to the doctor in the hopes that they can give him a little more pain relief.
I'll be in touch soon.
We love you all
Pippa
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