We are packing for our trip home tomorrow and reflecting on our time here. I was talking with one of the long-term staff this afternoon. He and the other long-term surgeon have each been here for 15 years. This is their home and they are so invested in the people and God's plan for this place. Two weeks was much too short of a time to serve, but I am sure we will back to Tenwek in the future. I was challenged daily, not always medically, but at times emotionally. Today, I sat with a young father who lost both his 16 year old son and father to esophageal cancer (unheard of in the western world). I just tried to console him and help him find peace. He was a strong young man and as usually, I got as much from our interaction as did he. Almost every day, Shelley, I and the girls went for a walk at lunch time. Sometimes we walked to the waterfall, other times we just wandered around the compound. We thought you might enjoy some of the "signs of Tenwek".
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