Burn Victim Suffers From Infection

  Miriam 
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Cusco, Peru - Sheila Wolfson, coordinator / translator:Miriam was on everyone's mind while we were at the hospital. When we arrived, our host had asked our doctors to see if they could help her, as she had been in the hospital for over three months due to burns she suffered all over her body from falling into a fire after a seizure. When we first saw Miriam, she was in total agony both physically and mentally. We truly did not know if she had the will to live, as she was suffering with pain. During the early part of our trip, our doctors brought her to the operating room to change her bandages and observed she had an infection throughout her body.