Happy Thanksgiving!

With Thanksgiving upon us, I felt it was timely to tell you about a little boy who came to the clinic a few weeks ago. He came with his mom - not making a sound - totally stoic. His feet were wrapped in a kanga, a traditional Tanzanian piece of fabric.

Everyone quickly discovered that this poor little boy had extensive third degree burns covering the tops and bottoms of his feet. And the burns were weeks old, and infected.

Dr. Frank sedated the little guy so that he wouldn't feel a thing, and the FAME team got to work debrieding the wounds and applying burn meds.

This process was repeated twice more. And on the third return visit this little guy RAN into the clinic. His feet were healing so well that he couldn't keep still.

The funniest part was that having been sedated three separate times, he thought that was part of coming to the clinic. But the wounds were doing so well he no longer needed it. As the team began to remove some of the dead skin, he asked for lala - sleep in swahili - he wasn't sedation! That is how good Frank is - patients ask for his services!

This little guy might have lost both of his feet were it not for the FAME team and their ability to heal him.

He is grateful. His mom is grateful.

And we here at FAME Medical are grateful too. For all of the love, support and generosity that we have received from those back home - making a story like this one possible!

Happy Thanksgiving! Love from everyone at FAME Africa!

Happy little guy!

His feet after all three treatments.