Went with Rick to Morher Theresa'sMission..impossible describe. Hundreds of children ranging from mentally retarded to crippled to seemingly normal. Some sad, some playful, some in their 14 yr old mothers' arms. An amazingly competent nun brought me one patient after another with lumps on the head , paralysis, muscular dystrophies thought previously to be spinal tunics, etc. Most fascinating to me was poor teenage parents insisting on MRI scan and surgery when clearly not necessary or indicated. Not terribly different from situations I encounter frequently at home. Finally when translated from English to Amharic to their native village language that I was a famous US neurosurgeon ( the nun speaking) they accept that their child was ok.
Meanwhile Rachel got into a wonderful rhythm playing with the children and Lynn learned from the nun who (of the many deposited at their gate each day)is accepted and how the rejections are dealt with; how to deal with beggar children and their desparate mothers.
Went to dinner with Rick. Manlio (from JDC in Rome) and betsy from JDC office in Jerusalem..
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