No Words for This

I do not even know where to begin this part of the story it is so unbelievable. So pardon me if this is not well written or clear - but here goes...

We knew that Cami had been in Hong Kong for surgery in 2008. From the discharge records we had, it looked as if she was there from May through November. We knew what hospital she was treated at but that was it. 

When we were at the orphanage, I asked about this time, but the only thing they could tell me was that the "Hong Kong Recovery Association" paid for her treatment. I tried to find out some information on them, but was unsuccessful and had felt like I hit a dead end. 

Until this morning.

Child Burn Foundation learned of a little boy living with his family in China who is in need of burn surgery. They family can not travel to the US, so the foundation has been working to find a surgeon in China. One of their surgeons in Iowa knows a surgeon in Hong Kong. That surgeon sent his file of work to the Burn Foundation.

There she was. 

Cami (then AI Liu) - in 2008. 

Not only did this surgeon operate on her, she lived with him and his wife son and daughter who cared for her while she was recovering. 

This is part of his email back to the foundation this morning- 

Tanya, this is incredible news. There is a God!.... Her sponsors though were some very well connected ladies who help to support the orphanage and were able to speak to the right people in the Hong Kong Government.

Ai Liu came to us a frightened and deformed little lady who was undernourished because she could not keep any food in her mouth.....because Ai Liu needed daily dressings she came to live with us for a time and you can see the picture of her and my daughter Alexandra sitting on the couch watching cartoons! My daughter and son David often ask about her and we have a picture of Ai Liu placed with other family pictures in our living room.

This is why your news is so wonderful as we got to know her as a young lady with a rich sense of humour and fun but also a fighting spirit....do send her love and warm wishes from David, Alexandra and Fun (my wife) who are overjoyed that she has found a family to take care of her.

This is amazing. I can not tell you how it heals my heart to know that during that time, she was loved. That someone cared for her. That there was a mom and a brother and a sister who tended to her. 

This is God - providing for His children. 

This is God - answering a mother's prayer that her child was well cared for and loved.

This is God - filling in the blanks on this side of Heaven. We are not promised this, but God - in his amazing merciful and infinite wisdom - does that for us sometime. He did not have to reveal to us who cared for her - but I am forever grateful that He did. Sone of the medical information will prove to be quite valuable.

I would love to share more about the little boy in China who needs burn surgery - and as soon as I have permission to, I will do that. I am humbled that his parents are trying to get him the help he needs in spite of the cost - that they have not left him to be found in the hopes that someone will take care of him.

I am grateful that some well connected ladies in Hong Kong saw fit to use their influence to help my daughter. If I could, I would lay my head in their lap and cry tears of gratitude and tell them that what they did mattered.