The last few weeks since the passing of our dear friend Carlos Gomez have been hard. The hundreds of Children of the Americas board members and volunteers who knew Carlos memorialized him and said good-bye to him in their own personal way, but the sadness lingers.
So it felt particularly poignant and uplifting, to see the headlines in Guatemala's main newspaper, the Prense Libre. (Link below)
Newspaper article
Douglas, the young man in the article below, was one of our COTA patients in January. Born with an arm and a leg that never functioned properly meant that Douglas either had to be carried or transported via wheelchair wherever he went in Guatemala. When we saw him in our clinic, he was mentally and physically tired of his mobility limitations. He made the brave and challenging decision to have his useless leg amputated.
So it felt particularly poignant and uplifting, to see the headlines in Guatemala's main newspaper, the Prense Libre. (Link below)
Newspaper article
Douglas, the young man in the article below, was one of our COTA patients in January. Born with an arm and a leg that never functioned properly meant that Douglas either had to be carried or transported via wheelchair wherever he went in Guatemala. When we saw him in our clinic, he was mentally and physically tired of his mobility limitations. He made the brave and challenging decision to have his useless leg amputated.
