by Gayle Stroschein | May 31, 2015 | Blog
Deep, Down, Dark In his book Deep, Down, Dark about the thirty-three Chilean miners who were trapped and then rescued after sixty-nine days from the Copiapo San Jose mine in 2010, Hector Tobar describes how people can pull together and periodically fall apart while...
by Gayle Stroschein | May 30, 2015 | Blog
Friday, May 29th: Well today we had our last day at Bugando Medical Centre and it was a wonderful and blessed day. All the team arrived at the hospital and we went to the ward report where we reviewed the new admissions and update on the status of some patients. We...
by Gayle Stroschein | May 29, 2015 | Blog
Thursday, May 28th: WOW…What a day we had! Thank you God for being with us and providing us with love, strength and guidance. I said some special prayers this morning as I know we had some very delicate and long surgeries. Our driver dropped off Ralph, Chad and...
by Gayle Stroschein | May 27, 2015 | Blog
Not so Pole Pole….. When Julie and I climbed Kilimanjaro 5 years ago, our guides used the phrase, pole pole, to tell us to go slowly slowly in order to keep from succumbing to the oxygen deprivation of high altitude. Well, that's not good advice for...
by Gayle Stroschein | May 26, 2015 | Blog
Monday, May 25th: The team has now flown to Mwanza, which is a beautiful city by Lake Victoria. Ralph, Julie and I arrived on Sunday and the rest of the team arrived with Julius on Monday. As I always tell my team members, we are coming to do...