Off to College: Handling The Challenges from Guys, Girls ...

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="full-post-img" style="border: 2px solid rgb(129, 132, 134); margin: 0px auto; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 3px; text-align: left; width: 510px;"> <a href="http://www.girldefined.com/college-guys-homeschooled-girl" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: none; font-weight: bold; margin: 0pt; outline: none !important; padding: 0pt; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Photo" height="357" src="http://www.girldefined.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/large_59703031201.jpg" style="border: none; margin: 0pt; outline: none !important; padding: 0pt;" width="510" /></span></a></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br style="text-align: justify;" /></span> <br /> <div align="center" style="border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;"> <h1 class="entry-title" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">College, Guys, and the Homeschooled Girl</span></span></h1> </div> <div align="center" class="cuopon_author" style="border: 0pt none; font-weight: bold; margin: 6px 0pt 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By: Lisa Hallahan (guest)</span></div> <div id="the_content" style="border: 0pt none; margin: 0px auto; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <div style="padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">School is starting and that means college will be commencing soon too. All of your friends are going off to college and you feel left out, shied into a corner and stuffed into a box with the rest of your homeschooled friends.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What’s worse is that maybe you’re old enough to have a boyfriend now and it seems like all of your friends have either been in a relationship or they are in one now. You’re the odd ball out on this one too.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Boys seem like uncharted territory to you. You wish you could crawl up into your bed, pull the covers over your head and just wait until the good times come to you.</span></div> <h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">There are a million questions in your mind about decisions and choices, guys and girls, God and the world, school and your biblical calling.</span></strong></h1> <div style="padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Let me explain one thing.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you have chosen to be a daughter who lives at home or if God has laid it on your heart to skip college you are not a “<em style="border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;">less than.”</em> You’re not less than the girl who’s pursuing a college degree; you’re not less than the girl who has the perfect hair and boyfriend.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You are valuable and treasured by the King. I’m not saying girls who go to college are bad. Some of my best friends go to college.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I simply want to share a personal message with the girls who have chosen to pursue family and biblical womanhood at home.</span></div> <h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you are that girl I encourage you to keep the following in mind:</span></strong></h1> <div style="padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">College, guys (or the idea of a boyfriend), and the perfect stereo-type lifestyle can be distractions.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The enemy can use these things to keep your mind in a state of discontentment and unhappiness. It’s the same thing when a Christian is tempted or distracted by secular music and movies and an unholy lifestyle.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The devil knows your weaknesses and uses things or people of the world to make you discontent with the lifestyle or calling that God has so firmly established in your heart.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you are insecure in your thinking, your thinking patterns will affect your attitude and your attitude will affect your decision making, which will ultimately affect your life. All of this will, in a harmful way, affect your walk with the Lord.</span></div> <h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">The devil is smart and ruthless.</span></strong></h1> <div style="padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He doesn’t let up for a minute. He knows where and how hard to hit you with little snares and traps. He wants to keep you from experiencing God’s joy and love and freedom in your life.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The devil wants everything to be about <em style="border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;">you.</em> And as fallen human beings, it’s easy to be tricked and caught in the devil’s evil wiles. That’s why it is so important that you accept the fact that Satan is a tough opponent.</span></div> <h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">He can make you slip up, but he can not conquer.</span></strong></h1> <div style="padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jesus says in John 16:33, “In the world you will have tribulation; but take heart, I have overcome the world.”</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We need to guard our hearts and put on the full armor of Christ as the true warriors that He has called us to be.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.” Eph. 6:10-13 (Read the rest of Chapter 6 to see what the armor of God is and how it can help you!)</span></div> <h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">You are wrestling with the world and the prince of this world from the moment you open your eyes in the morning.</span></strong></h1> <div style="padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But you’re not alone.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You have the Creator of the universe on your side! When you catch your thoughts of discontentment or when you notice that you are doubting God’s Sovereign plan for your life and confess those thoughts as sin, you are, by the power of the Holy Spirit, trampling Satan’s attacks on your heart.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">God already has the victory. He has already crushed the enemy. All you need to do is trust Him.</span></div> <h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Don’t question where God has you right now, dear girl.</span></strong></h1> <div style="padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When you do that, you are actually calling God a fraud. You are telling God, “You’re wrong God, I wasn’t meant for this kind of life. I want things to be my way. This needs to happen and that needs to be mine.”</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You are becoming the lord of your own life and trust me, you don’t want that to happen. You hear over and over again that God has everything under control and that everything happens for a reason.</span></div> <h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">But in your heart of hearts, do you really trust that?</span></strong></h1> <div style="padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Isaiah 29:13 says, “These people draw near with their mouths, and honor Me with their lips, but have removed their hearts far from Me, and their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men…”</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You need to believe that what God says is true. He does have a greater and more awesome plan for you than anything you can imagine.</span></div> <h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here are 4 ways that can help you trust Jesus and fight off the devil at the same time:</span></strong></h1> <div style="padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;">1.</strong> Read at least one chapter in the Bible every day. When Jesus was tempted in the wilderness, He combated Satan with scripture (Matt. 4). You can do the same! This will also mature your faith in Christ.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;">2.</strong> Get busy! Try to involve yourself in ministry in some way. There are so many resources and ways that you can help out. They say “idle hands are the devil’s workshop.” Don’t give him that opportunity.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;">3.</strong> Worship. Don’t compromise with the world by filling your head with garbage. Worshiping the Lord with songs of encouragement can help to guard your heart and mind.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;">4.</strong> Surround yourself with friends that will uplift you. Fellowship is sweet and a blessing from the Lord. Just the right amount with the right people will bless you more than you know.</span></div> <h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">I hope this has encouraged and inspired you!</span></strong></h1> <div style="padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Let’s talk about it:</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 29px;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Do you get feelings of discontentment and worry while living at home?</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Do you doubt where God has you in life right now?</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">How will you become a warrior and combat the devil today?</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You can write me personally, for a time of sharing and counseling. </span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">selflessheartsng@gmail.com</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I am also open to Facebook chat</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Shalom</span></div> <br /> <div style="padding: 0px 29px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;">Photo Credit: www.flickr.com | Khánh Hmoong</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="border: 0pt none; color: silver; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 29px;"> <a href="http://www.girldefined.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/large_59703031201.jpg" style="border: none; color: #509c83; font-weight: bold; margin: 0pt; outline: none !important; padding: 0pt; text-decoration: none;"></a></div> </div> </div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <header class="post-header cf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="featured" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/little-dan.jpg" itemprop="image" rel="prettyPhoto" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="After kidney transplant, little Daniel bounces back"><img alt="little dan" class="attachment-main-slider wp-post-image no-display appear" height="336" src="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/little-dan-543x336.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" title="After kidney transplant, little Daniel bounces back" width="543" /></a></span></div> </header><div class="post-meta" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); border-bottom-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px; margin: 0px 0px 21px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">BY <span class="reviewer" itemprop="author" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?author=2" rel="author" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Posts by COSMAS OMEGOH">COSMAS OMEGOH</a></span> ON <span class="dtreviewed" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><time class="value-datetime" datetime="2014-08-11T02:56:54+00:00" itemprop="datePublished" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AUGUST 11, 2014</time> </span></span></div> <div class="post-container cf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="post-content-right" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="post-content description" itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px -1.857em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">• Dad thanks Nigerians, says 12-year-old on $200 monthly drugs needs more help</strong></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In 2007, Master David Opara was five years old. But he was still wearing diapers. His parents, Pastor Alban and Mrs. Goodness Opara, were distraught at such a strange development happening at a time their son’s mates had long forgotten how it felt wearing such stuff. Each time the kid did not wear his diapers, his urine would be dropping on his pants in trickles for no other reason than that he had a blockage of the urinary track.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Therefore, because of David’s natural deformity, he had enormous difficulty passing out urine. His nature-imposed plight piled tremendous pressure on his kidneys, rendering them incapable of functioning as they should. Passing urine, for him, became a tug of war. Excess urine, which he should have passed out many days before, was held back in his system because it had nowhere to go. Only a little portion of it found its way through his urinary track, dripping embarrassingly as he went unless he wore his diapers. This development cast the little boy’s parents in a lake of sadness and left him in dear need of urgent kidney transplant.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But today, Master David, now 12, and his parents are a lot happier as they have a different story to tell. David, a Junior Secondary School (JSS) 2 student of Tonia International College, Coker, Lagos, has long bounced back to life and doing well; he is leading a normal, active life after undergoing a kidney transplant in an Indian hospital in 2010.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Living with a kidney donated to him by his mother, David eventually conquered the towering Goliath which threatened to claim his life. Now, all the impediments that hitherto held him down have been rolled away. So, he does virtually every other thing his mates do. He plays football like the rest of his peers; he is even a die-hard fan of Real Madrid.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Recently, the reporter traced him to Assemblies of God Church, Ikate, Lagos where he was undergoing a Christian summer programme with his mates. The boy who came to the event with his father radiated joy and gratitude. His mien was that of “Miracle Child of the Decade.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I’m fine and doing very well,” he said, flashing a smile. “I recently finished my promotional examination to JSS 2. The name of my school is Tonia International College, Coker. We are on holidays now so I came here with my dad for a religious programme.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Asked whether he still wore his diapers after the surgery he underwent in India, he smiled shyly and said no, noting that he no longer felt the way he always felt before he went for the transplant.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I feel okay now,” he said. “I do every other thing my mates do. I play football, though not always. I’m a Real Madrid fan and my best food is chips and chicken. I hope to be a engineer in future.” he announced gleefully.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The story of David is that of a little boy who chose life and rejected death. At five years of age when he was diagnosed at Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) to have a blocked urinary track from birth, he was already at the brink. But through the support of good-spirited Nigerians, money was raised for his surgery at Forties Hospital in New Delhi, India. That was in 2010. Now he is hail and hearty. But he is said to be on monthly drugs which costs about $200 and requires to undergo medical check up from time to time in a specialist hospita, even as the Indian hospital still wants him to come back.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Recalling how it all began for his son, Pastor Opara, (a former journalist whose last station before he veered into the Lords vineyard was at <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Daily Sun</i>) said David’s case was one that left the family a tall mountain to climb.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“At five, he wasn’t able to pass urine normally, he began. “Each time he dressed up, and did not wear his pampers, urine would be seen dropping on his pants. Then we used to taunt him. Progressively his case became worse. So in 2007, we were forced to take him to Randle General Hospital in Surulere, Lagos for tests. There, they didn’t tell us he had a kidney-related problem. It was at LUTH that we were told he had kidney problem and had to undergo regular dialysis and then surgery.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Part of the challenge he then had was that he was vomiting, and had lost appetite and much blood. Every now and then, he needed blood transfusion and we were donating blood regularly to sustain him. We were buying blood too to augment what we were giving him. Then every little money that came our way was spent on providing him with dialysis services and blood purchase.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Months after weaving in and out of hospital, in July 2010, we were invited to a meeting at LUTH where we were told that David’s situation needed kidney transplant. We were frightened when we were told that we required to raise money for the exercise so he would not die.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Quickly, we swung into action. My friends in the media came to our rescue. My organisation – The Sun Publishing Ltd, my church, Assemblies of God, Ikate, various individuals and governmental organisations raised the money for my wife and I to travel with David, believing that I was the one who was going to lend him a kidney. But at last, it was my wife who did. We went to India in October 2010 and returned in January 2011.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The doctors who managed him there recommended that he should be undergoing regular medical check up at LUTH, at least once every two months so that the experts there would know how he was faring. Each time we take him for test, his samples are collected and sent to South Africa for analysis. Each of such tests costs N25, 000. As I speak to you, he is on a live drug whose month-long dose costs $200.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“So far, his doctors at LUTH have done wonderfully well. Some of them personally call to find out how he is doing if we fail to make regular visits. Even some members of the public who have followed David’s case often call to know how he is faring. Indeed, we are eternally grateful for this gesture.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The lad, as you can see, is doing well, but each time he faces challenges such as vomiting and malaria, we easily get frightened.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The doctors at the Indian hospital where he was treated also recommended that he should avoid getting infected. This compels him sometimes to wear protective gear over his nose. At home, he has a special water dispenser because he does not drink just any type of water every one of us drinks. We were asked to return to the same hospital after a while for them to investigate him by themselves but we cannot do so now because the money is not there. But if we get the required support from anywhere, we will be glad to take him back to India again.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">No minding the challenges the boy still faces facing at the moment, his father strongly believes that David’s life is that of a child determined to live, while urging the general public not to be tired of helping his son lead a normal healthy life.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Support for David can be sent to UBA Plc Account No <a href="tel:1001332228" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">1001332228</a> in favour of Alban Opara. The boy’s dad may be reached on <a href="tel:08063205177" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">08063205177</a>.</span></div> </div> <div id="adscontainer" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

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