"We thank God for you"

Last week we got a new baby in the shelter. He is 2 years old. His name means "We thank God for You." He has been in a government hospital for 5 months because his mother burned him. We are not sure how he was burned, but you can see the burn marks all over his back, arm, and side. It looks like she may have poured boiling water on him. Many of his burns have healed, but on his side under his arm he still has open wounds where the skin is growing back. Dr. Neil has been coming to change his bandages. The poor little boy is in so much pain and has gone through so much trauma that it at first took three of us to hold him down to change his bandages. (He's responding better after a few days now.) Dr. Neil told us that this wound should have healed by now, but at the government hospital they were cleaning the wound every day, which has actually caused it to remain open. He has us putting this medical cream goopy stuff (not it's technical name) on the wound every day instead of washing it. After changing his bandage the first day here, Dr. Neil gave the boy some candy. He is so untrusting and traumatized that he wouldn't eat the candy. (I think he thought we were trying to trick him.) I look forward to watching this little boy heal physically and emotionally as he realizes that this is a safe place. We truly thank God for this little boy.