Day 1: Zanskar Medical Camp 2018
We are off to Zanskar for our next Medical Camp. We have a great team from the USA and Brazil and Switzerland! And, of course, our Zanskari team! At the request of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, this year we are moving forward on INTEGRATED MEDICINE. We have 2 wonderful Tibetan doctors joining us: Dr. Kalsang and Dr. Yangdrol, both [...]
Day 1: Athens, Greece
We are in Athens. We are in Plaka, the old city beneath the Acropolis. It is beautiful and friendly. We walked up to the Acropolis on ancient walkways. The pillars, majestic, and I love the statues in the front of this amazing temple of Athena. We are tourists for a day. Ate in a fancy eatery and listened to live [...]
Day 14: Lesbos, Greece
Up early buying cooking pots, cooking utensils, small wood cook stove, washing buckets, spices and food to distribute to the African-Sri Lanka tent. Thanks to the generosity of YOU we purchased this small stove, cooking pots, cleaning buckets and good vegetables and spices. These will be shared by many people. Our last gorilla clinic today. We saw 37 patients. One [...]
Day 13: Lesbos, Greece
Mark is recovering but still coughing and resting. Something we have noticed in ourselves and as a team is that we have experienced a shift, we are less raw, less emotional somehow coping with the constant state of heartbreak, the shock of the crisis. Being here witnessing and serving consumed us. We learned to maneuver ourselves within this humanitarian crisis. [...]
Day 12: Lesbos, Greece
Our Dr. Mark is sick, coughing, cold, whatever. Virus the camp has he has. He had his face up close and personal with many a sick persons and he has succumbed. He is mega vitamin dosing and resting, his cough sounds terrible. Brian departed this morning for Athens - bye Brian!! We went back to the Mayor's office to pick [...]
Day 10: Lesbos, Greece
Today we are all tired but we showed up and saw 48 patients. One young woman from Cameroon, beautiful 20 year old, said she was 2 months pregnant. She complained of her breasts hurting, vomiting and acid reflux. I told her that was part of being pregnant, sadly she is alone. Has been at the camp 2 months. I asked [...]