AUTHOR: Nancy
TITLE: Her tenacity brings ‘miracle’ and then more
DATE: 12/09/2008 08:41:00 AM
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BY BOB WELCH
Register-Guard Columnist
It began with a young Guatemalan woman, Irma. Nancy Hughes met her in 2004 when the Eugene woman had been part of the kitchen crew on the Cascade Medical Team.
Irma told the team members about how she had fallen into an open cooking fire in her family’s home at age 2. Her hands had been so badly burned that she had been unable to open them. Now, after 16 years, the medical team had given her back the use of those hands.
“She said she’d prayed for a miracle,” Hughes says, “and we were that miracle.”
If the moment marked an ending to one story, though, it marked the beginning to another.
The moment planted a question in Hughes’ mind: Rather than treat burns, how can we prevent them?
MoreLabels: El Salvador
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