by Adam | Apr 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
“When that eyepatch comes off and they smile and they look around, sometimes I don’t speak to them but I put my hand out and they just reach out and shake my hand. And you know – you see it on their face just how grateful they are. And I guess there’s just nothing that pays so much as the patient being grateful for recovering their eyesight.” Dr. Nola Pikacha, Regional Eye Centre, Solomon Islands Now is a good time to start the end of this blog. I’m sitting at a bar in Nashville, Tennessee enjoying a beer. My old bandmate Tyler, moved down here a year ago and is working at the bar. I wish I could have written down all my thoughts from the last part of my journey while I was there, but I could not. And I could not last month because it was the busiest month of the year for me on general surgery service. But it is all still fresh in my mind. I think about the things I saw and experienced every day, like a daydream. This is a long blog entry. But I think it documents the most interesting and most important experiences of my travels. One thing to worry about is not missing the plane, and that can and should happen if you set your alarm for 5:30PM instead of 5:30 AM for your 9:30 AM international flight. Once again somehow the universe conspired to help me on my journey. Or maybe it was my brain that woke me up in Brisbane at 7:45. I panicked for...
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