Day 9: Lesbos, Greece
I hit the wall today and so did Mark. Exhaustion and heartbreak. We saw 67+ patients and closed up, found the medicinal hot springs for a soak. It was lovely, but my whole body was just rubber when I got out, I could barely walk to the car. Came back to our bnb and went to bed, slept until 4 [...]
Day 8: Lesbos, Greece
A beautiful day , sunshine and warm weather finally. We hooked up with a pharmacy today that sold us most of the drugs we needed and ordered more for us. Thank you to those of you who have donated for the medications. They are really needed, we have been seeing a lot of pneumonia. We met with Medicines San Frontiers [...]
Thank you for your donations!
To all who donated, thank you! We were able to buy these medicines - enough for 5 more days. We have ordered some more z packs for pneumonia and we are good. Thank you from all our refugee friends from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, Sudan, Egypt, Pakistan, Cameroon, Congo, Mali, Eritrea, Sri Lanka. If you'd like to go to [...]
Day 7: Lesbos, Greece
We started earlier this morning because we wanted to go to the African tent before parking in our usual spot. We love the Africans, they are so friendly and polite. They patiently wait in line. Most are from the Congo, many from Cameroon. I don’t know what the political situation is in Cameroon but from the little bit we have [...]
Day 6: Lesbos, Greece
We were a bit slow to start this morning and when we arrived 30 min late we had people waiting. We were really happy to see the Africans waiting to see us. Most are from the Congo and Cameroon, some from Senegal, Eritrea, Gambia, and Sudan. Brian is fluent in French and they really liked speaking to him. Their [...]
Day 3: Lesbos, Greece
Today went rather smoothly. We decided to limit our visit and saw 40 patients. Spending more time with each, Karen was able to do massage for some who were injured in bomb blasts and Mark did some acupuncture for stress and ptsd. Many just had colds and sinus issues - we gave them Tylenol, tissues and some multi-vitamins. Scabies is [...]