It's about time you meet Victory
Well, it has only been over three years since we posted anything on this old, dusty blog of ours. It is time to revive it and for very, very good reason. She has a name- we will call her Victory or V until we bring her home safely. Let's start from the beginning... Lallie, Logan, and I, along with my parents, met V for the first time in April 2015 during our first trip to Africa. She had been found, abandoned in a garden at 18 months old, with her immunization record in her hand. A selfless nun who runs an small, underfunded baby orphanage discovered her. She suffered a stroke due to her Sickle Cell Disease, and whomever was caring for her realized they were not able to meet her special medical needs. When V was found she couldn't walk and would drag herself around by her left arm. The nuns did their best to take care of her and provide her with the physical therapy she needed in order to have any chance of walking. Miraculously, after m...