About a month ago, a baby girl was dropped off at Casa de Fe by a woman who said she was 10 months old and left a can of formula. Other than that, we don't know anything about her. She weighed about 10 pounds and on exam, she has a colostomy due to a congenital condition causing a blockage in her intestinal tract. The area around the colostomy was red and irritated and bleeding, much like a terrible diaper rash. After a brief hospital admission, we brought her to our house since we were still trying to figure out how to best deal with the malnutrition and the colostomy.
There was a steep learning curve to learning to how to care for her colostomy, especially here without home health and specialized nurses. But with some long distance help and lots of Internet research, we were able to get her raw skin healing and fatten her up a bit.
Now she is back at Casa de Fe and the ladies who work there are fast becoming experts in colostomy care. Her skin is mostly healed and she over 13 pounds. She came over to play last week and we were delighted that she is a smiley, chubby baby! I don't know if she remembered us, but she relished being the center of attention of a crew of boys for a time.
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