We are now in the final stages of packing and preparation
for our surgical mission to Cameroon. We are flying from Medford, OR on
September 3rd and will be in Cameroon 2 days later. These past several weeks have been filled
with getting our supplies ready as well as finishing up our vaccination
schedule. It will be a relief when the last piece of luggage in finally
packed. We are really excited to be
going to Njinikom, Cameroon where we will be working with long term Mission
Doctor Volunteers Brent Burket, MD and his wife Jennifer Thoene, MD who have
now been there for one year.
In this first post I will fill in a little bit about myself
and my wife Rosemary. I am a Plastic and
Reconstructive surgeon and Rosemary is an Operating Room/Surgical RN. We began our volunteer surgical missions in
1983 with a month long mission in
Indonesia. We followed that with annual
missions to Nepal for approximately the next 22 years. In between we have worked in India, Turkey
and most recently we have been going to Antigua, Guatemala for the past few
years. I retired from active practice on July 1 of this year and now have the
time to go for longer mission trips. We
have always wanted to go with a Catholic organization and work in a Catholic
setting. In addition we have wanted to
work in Africa. So that brings us to the
present endeavor. We attended the Spring
Retreat for Mission Doctors in Los Angeles this year and began to make plans
for the Cameroon mission. The time has
passed very quickly since that wonderful meeting and we are ready to embark. We
will try to post to our blog with some regularity for our friends and
followers. We ask that you all keep us
in your prayers.
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