So many people do good -Afghanistan

Well, I'll get the bad news out of the way first-my camera was stolen yesterday, with all of my pictures. I told the Nepalese, I don't care about the camera, just get me the memory card back. Now let's move on - Can anyone beside my daughter and I take a bucket shower? Two buckets, warm and cold, mix together, but wait, try to wash 

your hair , get soap in your eyes and the power in the hotel goes out, now was there a step leaving the bathroom? Not sure. Don't forget, you are standing in the bucket, 

in the dark ... This is really something. We get up at 5 and get to the other hotel by 6 for a breakfast of some really strange things, including buffalo yoghurt ! After a 

quick meeting we are at the hospital by 7:30. We get started and people are already 

lined up. The OR has its cases already to go. They are doing gallbladder , 

hysterectomies, circumsicions, burn reconstruction, you name it. I am in the out 

patient department right now. Did you ever think you would hear me say " I don't 

want anyone moving my hemorrhoid trays!" we are seeing all kinds of things and I 

cauterized an entire surgery removing a massive, one pound, lipoma from a ladies 

back. We also saw a little boy with "undiagnosed genitalia". You could not tell if he was a boy or a girl. Meanwhile it is chaotic outside. Armed guards keep the people 

under control because they all want to see an American doctor. Some of the cases 

are heartbreaking and many are fixable. One lady had one breast the size of a 

cantaloupe. The Drs. drained it but they have to do a mastectomy on Saturday, otherwise when we leave it will just fill up again. So sad. Everyone is so tired. We have 

two more days then a day off and then four more days. We did 18 cases yesterday 

and 17 today. That is a huge amount , under the circumstances. That's all for now, 

going to bed. Love you 

Ps. Appreciate where you live, and what you have. 

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So, today is Sunday and we have the day off. right now we sitting on the roof of the Hotel Bishal, concrete, plastic chairs, and nice breeze, not very fancy but it feels 

good to be outside.
The other day DR. let me "scrub in" and assist him on two gall bladder surgeries. In the midst of one he said " touch this, it's his kidney" it was very cool. Then i watched him do a bilateral hernia
repair. Today we made rounds and I saw my "patients". Dr. said "you did good. 

They are still alive,"
The poverty level is staggering. If we are unable to schedule a surgery for a couple 

days later, there is a problem for them. Many have walked here and they can't afford to 

stay here, eat, etc., so many simply sleep on the hospital grounds under a tree or on a bench. Yet, they have so much dignity. Yesterday a very old man came out patient. We asked him to remove his clothes for the procedure. His clothes were in tatters. 

You would not wash your car with them, yet as he took of his scarf, jacket sweater, 

undershirt he carefully folded them and placed them at the end of the table. 

After 

Dr. took off a huge sebaceous cyst, which went to his skull and we dressed the 

wound I took him to the mirror to see how good he looked. He just stared at himself and then turned and said "namaste" to all of us.
More later......