Jacky

Friday January 30, 2008 Jacky passed away.
She was one of my children from the children’s home I helped out at in Uganda. Yes she had AIDS but she was a healthy child for the most part. She was a happy, fun loving little girl. But a number of days ago she became sick and ended up in the hospital. There were complications with the blood transfusions she received, and her forth day in the hospital she went home to be with the Lord. Although I was only at the children’s home for a month and a half I still feel very attached to those children. There is something about spending all day every day with them, taking them to the clinic every day, giving them their medications, playing with them, holding the little ones as they fall asleep, taking them for walks, and giving them all the love possible because they do not receive it in the other parts of their lives. They called me Mummy and I felt like it. And now one of my children is gone. Gone for reasons I cannot explain, she was only 9 years old, and she lived and died from a sickness that was in no way her fault.