Dear friends,
Abdul Jabbar’s heart operation is over and described as a perfect surgery and a complete success, thank God. Today (Wednesday) a press conference will be held in Tampa to introduce him to the world.
Also today eight-year-old Fatima will have her surgery at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. She too was discovered in Iraq by a US army officer; you may remember seeing her picture taken with him before she flew out of Baghdad on the same flight as Abdul Jabbar on July 10.
Fatima collapsed on arrival in Amman, Jordan, and our volunteers there
rushed her to the hospital. A life-threatening infection was discovered
and a central line put in place so that she could receive daily intravenous
antibiotics. The volunteers cared for Fatima and her aunt around the clock
for 40 days, as her medical bills mounted to approximately $3000. A week
ago she and her aunt flew to the US (again on the same flight as Abdul
Jabbar), and doctors in Cincinnati decided they could go forward with
her surgery today despite the complication of infection. Fatima is pictured
below in her hospital bed in Cincinnati; please will you join us in holding
her and her doctors before the Lord during and after her surgery.
With thanks,
Jonathan Miles
Coordinator
Shevet Achim
“Behold how good and how pleasant for brothers to dwell together
in unity” (Psalm 133:1)
www.shevet.org
