by Rachel Vreeman | Dec 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
We have reached December 1 again, World AIDS Day. I have left my blogging here for the past year, but my writer’s heart longs to be writing again every day. It has been a year of grant-writing for work, and so often I feel like I have nothing left to type the...
by Rachel Vreeman | Jan 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
Miriam is 15-years-old, and she lives at a children’s home for orphans just outside of Eldoret. A few years ago, when I visited the home, her guardians at the home asked me to take a look at her because she had been coughing for some time. It turns out that Miriam had...
by Rachel Vreeman | Jan 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
It’s deliciously sunny at the Equator today, but David has his navy hoodie snugged up tightly around his face as he slouches in the chair in my exam room. He doesn’t make eye contact with me as I flip through the many pages in his chart. One of the clinical officers...
by Rachel Vreeman | Dec 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
It is December 1, World AIDS Day, and I am so excited for Celebration in Red. It feels like a big birthday party for me and all of the HIV-infected children I care for in Kenya. In Kenya, our kids are engaged in a World AIDS Day Youth Soccer Tournament as I type this....
by Rachel Vreeman | Nov 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
We will celebrate Ethan. Ethan is 18, and he has been living with HIV since he was born. For the first years of his life, he was sickly and small. Every day, in the silence of her heart, his mother wept for him. She was sure that this son who was sick again and again...
