I know I did not post the last week. I was trying to gather my thoughts and emotions. Right before New Years, Noah(Ahuz) had a seizer and it lasted longer than normal. The Iya(caretaker) brought him upstairs and then they rushed him to the nurse room. They have a heart/oxygen monitor, I think that’s what you call them, it goes on your finger. His pulse was to high and his oxygen to low. We have a oxygen tank there but it was to tight….it wouldn’t open….5 people trying to get it to budge with no luck…..I didn’t know what to do so I stood there and prayed in the Spirit…..After much effort we ran down stairs to the car to go to the hospital.
Hospitals I guess can be picky here on who the do and don’t admit. We rushed in through the doors to lay him on a bed with working oxygen right next to him while the men just stared at Sarah. They wouldn’t at first let her give him oxygen…until the “Momma” in her came out like a lioness. Like she was crazy, for some reason the thoughts of a crazy white women informing and asking a medical questions through them off. Here you can’t sugar coat things. You yell or you get walked all over…and when there is a 10 year olds life in your hand…that’s not going to happen. Some where laughing even. Really, she was a protective and jumping into action…that’s what happens when you have 80+ kids and a majority have epilepsy. She was fighting for his survival, a seizer lasting 5 mins is long a seizer lasting now hr and a half…Something had to be done. By the time the neurosurgeon came, he said he couldn’t do anything because he was just that, a neurosurgeon. Makes sense right?? Neurosurgeons shouldn’t know anything about seizers right? I’m sure it never came up in medical school!!!…We stayed there for maybe 45mins and left right after he showed up. We went to our next option, the hospital that actually turned a different child away because the doctor wasn’t a pediatric doctor. This time we make it in and they did take Ahuz, they medicated him but he was and had been seizing for I don’t even know how long now past 2 hours for sure. They got him somewhat stabilized, the next day we all when back. Sarah decided to take him to Hyderabad, the hospital in Ongole could no longer do anything for him and there are better hospitals in Hyderabad. They traveled my ambulance, it normally takes about a 6-7 hours but would be faster in a ambulance. They got him there but shortly after Ahuz passed away.
I had played with him, with all the boys but the reality of death as a possibility was far in the back of my head. It may not happen often, but it does, and it effects everyone. One boy, his friend, Joshua who is epileptic and so sweet ,cried and couldn’t eat for a day. Not sure if he really new what happened or if it was because he could sense why his Iya’s were so sad.
The questions in my mind were, “God why did everything go sooo wrong?”…..no oxygen.…the hospital not cooperating,… I still have no idea. What I have come to realize that Ahuz was in a environment of people that talked and loved on him all day. He laid or sat next to his friends and was always smiling. If there wasn’t Sarah’s Covenant Homes then he would have been somewhere else malnourished(most likely) and would have possible gone through that alone. I like to think that God placed him at SCH to know love….and see it….and feel it….when he fell asleep at night someone was there….when he had a seizer someone was there. God not only died for that little cutie pie but he orchestrated from the beginning that someone would pick him up and take him to his new “home” and love on him till it was his time to meet Jesus…Jesus desires us to see love, and Ahuz defiantly saw Christ’s love because all of those Iya’s loved him like Christ does. Even when we are cognitive or mentally delayed or have some other kind of disability God still pursues us…..He pursed little Ahuz by giving him love from amazing Christian people….I have so much joy knowing that Ahuz knew he was loved……and now he’s in the presents of the man that loved him and pursued him in the first place. I bet that Jesus told Ahuz all about how much He loved him, and about how he showed it when he was on earth. I also bet Jesus melted when He saw his incredible smile.
I don't have a picture of him but this link http://www.facebook.com/schindia is to the Sarah's Covenant Homes Facebook page and the profile picture is his beautiful smiling face. Love you all and thanks for your prayers!
Oh Becca. I know this is years later but I recently discovered SCH and have been hunting up all the public blogs. I love these stories, even the sad ones because they are so telling of Sarah's love. Thanks for mentioning Sarah's advocacy. I am blind, and I know advocacy is important. Even in the States, we need to advocate. Anyway, sorry for your loss and thanks for posting this.
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