Women's Day Celebration at Yilong Lake

 

Shiping Rehabilitation Center (Yunnan Province) volunteers and Leprosy survivors celebrated "Women's Day" and visited Yilong Lake to experience and appreciate the wonders of the Creator's creation.

Guangdong Provincial Institute of Ethnic and Religious Studies traveled to Macao Special Administrative Region to conduct research.

Religion and society are important cultural properties of Macao society, showing the characteristics of social and cultural diversity, harmony in Macao society having high research value. 

Guangdong Institute of Ethnic Religion has long been engaged in research on the basic religious theory, history, culture and present situation of religions in Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao Greater Bay Area. Conducted a thematic study on the situation of cultural and social services organized by Macao societies in Henqin, aiming to better serve the construction of the Greater Bay Area research on cultural and social service activities carried out by Macao social organizations and cultural and social service activities carried out by Macao social organizations in Hengqin, aiming to better contribute to the construction of the Greater Bay Area of Guangdong,, Hong Kong and Macao and the construction of Hengqin deep cooperation. 

In order to promote the development of research, the director of Guangdong Institute of Ethnic and Religious Studies Luo Long and his team of 7 people went to Lima social service on March 1, 2024.

Caring for the health of patients with AIDS

This is one of the short stories for the 2022 newsletter, thanks to Auntie Lou for being there for people living with HIV so that they can be protected both physically and spiritually! Thank you to our prayer group, Sister Teresa, who wrote a heartfelt message for the story!

Author: Auntie Lu (Yunnan Caring Service Team)

How to guard the health of AIDS patients with heart

(A) Start by caring for the patient's psychology:

Patients who have just been diagnosed cannot accept the fact that they are suffering from AIDS, they are depressed and have hopeless thoughts about life and living, and they may hurt themselves; when they are agitated, they may engage in anti-social behaviors, etc. In serving the patients, we always communicate with them sincerely with empathy, warmth, acceptance, and positivity, so as to understand the problems that the patients need to be solved, to appease their emotions, to listen, to accompany them, to be with them, and to help them to be healthy and to be a part of their lives. We also try to calm the patient's emotions, listen, accompany and help the patient to reduce stress, and explain the basic knowledge of AIDS to eliminate the patient's fear of AIDS.

(b) Adjustment of patients' physical needs:

"This is a hard line we often tell patients, although not gentle enough, but many patients have memorized this line; patients who have just started taking antiretroviral drugs are in the stage of immune reconstruction, and many of them are in great pain, and some of them are mentally confused when they take EFV drugs. Some patients who took EFV drugs became mentally confused, while others who took AZT drugs became severely anemic, etc. We told the patients to find a doctor to change the drugs in time. For patients with HIV combined with various types of tumors, there were strong side-effects after chemotherapy, such as an extreme decrease in platelet and white blood cell counts, severe paralysis, inability to eat, and severe malnutrition, etc. We encouraged and accompanied the patients to cope with changes in their conditions in a tough manner, and provided them with different kinds of nutritious products in time, so that the patients had the strength to tide over the difficult times. There are also patients who have received more than 10 rounds of chemotherapy and whose families are in financial difficulties and can no longer afford to insist on treatment. We help to connect the patients with resources from various sources, such as connecting them with the medical insurance, applying for the Ricci Social Service Medical Poverty Waiver Program, and going to hospitals for medical assistance, etc., so as to help them to be physically fit and healthy.

Prayer Group Sister Teresa's thoughts on Auntie Lu's reading:

The content is very relevant to the topic, and not only does it make the reader feel the aunt's love, but also her empathy! She has shown great determination and hard work in carrying out her service! Good luck, Auntie!

Serving at Sichuan Zahojue Hospital

 

Thanks to Tia Chow for being there when love was needed most. And thanks to Carrie, our prayer team, for writing this short story!!!💖

Author: Sister Zou; Serving at Sichuan Zhaojue Hospital

Cutaneous calcification

My job is to spend time with patients suffering from illnesses. Patients of different ages, sexes, all kinds of diseases and faces with different needs, and through the daily visits and talks, trust is growing bigger, sprouting and growing silently in between the talks.

Almost every day something curious happened: one day, a patient saw us enter the room with a smile on his face, hurriedly picked up his test report and said with a confident face: "What's wrong with me (lung CT report)? I understand that this is the responsibility of the doctor in charge, I still took the report with great expectations, I read the "calcified spots", the patient's expression was very serious, I explained: calcified spots is that you have been in contact with tuberculosis, and now you have scabs, the patient still has a puzzled expression, we held out the hands of the patient who had suffered an injury, and said, in this place was injured, now healed but left behind. The patient said with enthusiasm, I know ......, told the patient that the most important thing is that you are better or not, the test report to the doctor in charge, he is responsible for your treatment, the patient replied with joy, I am much better, yes, I am cured. My disease is cured is the most important thing, to see the happiness and satisfaction of the patient, the most rewarding thing is our gratitude and inner joy, to be needed is the best proof of our existence.

Heartfelt message from Sister Carrie's Prayer Group to Auntie Chau:

People who are sick suffer. They suffer to varying degrees depending on the severity of their illness. The Sisters visit and talk to patients every day. Although they cannot prescribe medicine to relieve patients' pain as effectively as doctors can, the companionship they receive during the period of illness is a comfort to the soul and is another kind of healing. Similarly, in the process of comforting patients, the aunties also experienced the joy of being needed, which is really "giving a rose, leaving a fragrance in the hand"🌼