Kind of a Hero

On Thursday night Aaron was instrumental in a life-or-death situation. I wasn't there for most of it: I'm posting this because I know Aaron wouldn't.

We were doing devotions with the boys at the Children's Home when a lady came in and said Marilyn (the nurse at the Children's Home) was asking for him down at the YMC (where we stay). He left as we continued the devotions. As I was told later, a neighborhood girl had an allergic attack after eating dinner and her family took her to the Center, hoping we could do something. At first, the workers didn't get the story straight and thought she was simply sick, so they tried to treat her, but she continued to get worse. Then Aaron arrived (they had called him as he has had EMS training) and quickly realized she was having an allergic attack. After scanning the medical supplies here for the appropriate medicines, he decided she needed to go to the hospital.

We were finished with devotions by this time and walked in just as Aaron was carrying the barely-conscious child out to the car (going directly by car would be faster than calling an ambulance). Along the way he fed her an improvised medicine to keep her throat open so she could breathe and monitored her condition. When she arrived at the hospital she was treated immediately as an emergency case. She was soon released and spent the night recovering at the Center, but the doctors say had she arrived twenty minutes later, she would likely have died. It's still not entirely certain what set off her attack, but we've communicated to her parents the importance of care in her diet and immediate response to any signs of another attack.

So Aaron has gone from the life of the party as he talked about in his last post to kind of a hero in the eyes of many of the people here. God has certainly arranged to use his unique talents here. Please pray for the girl, both that she recovers and stays physically safe and that she gains spiritual salvation, as she participates in a neighborhood girls' bible study.