The day after I came home, I got news from Dr. Karla that Dayana died. Dr. Karla writes (and I translated):
“On the 4th of June the two year old little girl Dayana Bello passed away after 16 days of intensive therapy in the Mascota Children’s Hospital. The injustice of the world is that she died of a disease, pneumonia, which could have been cured if they had caught it in time. The sad part is that four days before those 16 days, she had been admitted in the hospital in bad state of health and when the mother asked the doctors if the phlegm that she heard in Dayana’s chest was normal, they told her that yes and that she should just wait for the effects of the treatment and that for children with special needs there is always phlegm. So the mother left not expecting this to ever happen. We give glory to God who wanted to bring her to His presence. We are grateful for all of your prayers and we ask that if you know a mother of a special needs child that you tell them not to conform to the doctor if they say something is normal and to look for help and other opinions if they feel as if something is wrong. God gives us our children for a short period of time and we have to tell them of Him and give them all the care we can give.”
Please Pray for this mother and family. The mother slept and spent all of those 16 days sleeping on the sidewalk outside the hospital and I know this must be causing lots of suffering that, with her other 2 kids at home, will have little time to process.
Also, pray for Dr. Karla. I wish more than anything I could be there with her to go through this loss and move forward on the many things to come. We would visit Dayana and her mother and stay professional and together while we were in front of them and then cry and pray together afterwards in the car as we got ready to drive to the next thing. I pray she feels supported and loved in this time as well to give her all that she needs to serve and love and serve and love and serve as the work requires.
Love,
Ayla Landry
“In April we cannot see sunflowers in France, so we say the sunflowers do not exist. But the local farmers have already planted thousands of seeds and when they look at the bare hills they may be able to see the sunflowers already. The sunflowers are there. They lack only the conditions of sun, heat, rain, and July. Just because we cannot see them does not mean they do not exist.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
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