Get well my young friend

The Photo below is one from our trip last spring. Hanna, Bekah & Altynai are standing here with their good friend Talas...

I shared about Talas last fall... He is an exceptionally bright young man, but more then that he is caring and thoughtful. He is always eager to help ... That is how we first met him... it seemed that when ever there was a job to do, he was there to volunteer to lend a hand.

Last fall he came to me for meds for a head ache... when it did not go away in a couple days, our friends took him to the Dr where he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. It was something the way that everyone rallied around to help him . The other students as well as his family and his extended family all took up a collection... they were able to cover most of the operation... well just about half. We covered the rest as well as they post op care. They operated that week, but he was in such pain after the operation that they had to keep him sedated ... You may remember the hole storey about this last October...


Over the last few months he has been slowly recovering. he has learned to walk again and has even been back to school for the last couple weeks. He is still very week and has a hard time keeping food down. then last week he started to develop a very sore back.... Last night they took him to the hospital and they found that he had a tumor on is spine....
In a few hours, the Dr wants to operate... the family and friends have tried everything they could to raise the funds, but this time, they are competing with winter .....and the economic times ...

I just got a call from one of our friends had spoke to the hospital... he is trying to talk to the Dr to into get the cost of the operation down, or to try to get him to operate for free. He says that for 10 000 som + meds.... that is around $250 they can operate & treat him.... As it turns out, we just had a donation come in last week to cover operations... while our friend was still on skype, I was able to Face book Sam and confirm that money arrived today, then go on line banking to Western Union and transfer the funds and report back to our friend ... still on the line, the pick up code for the money that is there now... right away he used his cell to call the hospital to tell them not to worry and to proceed with the operation ....

Talas will need a lot of prayers over the next few days and weeks ahead, but when things line up like they just did a few minutes ago, you have to think that there is a special plan for this young man....

Get well Talas, and we will be there to see you soon.....