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A once furrowed brow disappears and a smile takes over her face. Almost always she states that she had convinced herself that she was cursed just as everyone told her, but now she knows that God sent Mercy Ships specifically to help her baby. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b2ac55d55b4168dbcc3ebf/1550084091749-WG5X9DVXY6ABKVXSTX72/MGC160115_TAHINA_PAT09001_DECK7_POST_OP_RP001_LO.jpg international Missions Blog - Be a Fibroblast For the Noma patients: Oh man the Noma patients get me…A recap on Noma: it is a gangrenous bacterium that is only found in the poorest corners of the world. This bacteria is an opportunistic bacteria that attacks children predominantly between the ages of 2-6 and has a 90% mortality rate. What that means is these Noma patients that we see are the 10% that survived with the odds stacked against them. Their mark of survival is on their face. Noma rots the tissues of the face down to the bone and leaves these patients often with gaping holes where their nose or cheek or eye once was. Just prepare yourself for disturbing images and then google Noma. Its horrific. These patients have stories of getting a cut on their way home from school or something similarly minor that changed their life forever. Once they get Noma they are now deformed and no longer allowed to go to school, no longer able to be a part of their village or families or society, no longer considered human. They are the strongest people I have ever met in my life. There is no textbook that covers how to repair Noma cases because it doesn’t exist in the developed world. Doctor Gary (he’s a freaking wizard) has just made up his own techniques over the course of his 30+ years on board in order to help these patients. He takes muscle from the skull and stretches it down to the nose where he keeps it attached for a few weeks to grow new skin and then releases it and builds them a new nose, takes a muscle from their shoulder and does the same to build a new cheek, the skull or the hip or the rib to make bone grafts….The list goes on..These walk up the gangway with fabric strategically wrapped around their faces to cover their scars of survival and leave unrecognizable. Their external scars still healing but their internal scars untraceable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b2ac55d55b4168dbcc3ebf/1550084145207-5LM19EBHTBC2X5JUXMHU/CMA170910_KALTOUMI_PAT13098_BEFORE_ST004_LO.jpg international Missions Blog - Be a Fibroblast Tumor patients: The thing is, at home we find a lump or bump the size of a pea and we immediately run to the doctor to have whatever it may be removed. Being told it is benign is cause for celebration because in our minds, benign means survival and malignant means cancer. Well really the only difference medically is the borders that define that growth. A malignancy means the cells spread and benign means they are condensed to one spot. The difference in Africa means you’ll either die quickly or slowly. The tumors we see in D ward are all benign as we don’t operate on malignant tumors (because we will not help them by doing so). These benign tumors are anywhere from the size of an orange to the size of a watermelon…on the face…no joke. These patients will die a slow death by either starvation or suffocation if left without surgery. Their stories are that of knowing that they will die without help but having no help in sight. They watch their tumors grow bigger and bigger and their difficulties with it get worse and worse until they are sure they won’t make it another day and then Mercy Ships arrives. 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Her scholarship is awarded for her upcoming service in Dakar, Senegal with Mercy Ships. This scholarship is providing financial support for Lauren’s room and board, all meals, and crew fees during her three month of service as a pediatric ICU nurse in West Africa. Lauren has been on a number of medical missions since beginning her career as a nurse but this will be her first service on the continent of Africa. We ask that you pray for her and all her patients as she provides critical medical care for those in need and shines the light of Jesus in one of the darkest corners of Earth. We are looking forward to hearing about her amazing work on the Africa Mercy. 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