January 20, 2022

If we couldn’t warm up little Adoo quickly he was going to die of the cold.

Somehow he had gotten wet, and his body went into hypothermia–a life-threatening condition that affects the heart and other organs. We rushed him to our hospital and gave him heated water in a saline IV drip, and placed him in a nest of hot water bottles and blankets and human arms. But all we could do was wait to see if his little body would respond to the external warmth. Mere blankets couldn’t have done the job. By the next morning, we met a new little guy–his eyes were sparkling and he even ate on his own!

We kept him with us for a couple of days as a precaution and returned him to his mother.