Let me share a few stories. We do a lot, a whole lot, of cataract surgeries on board. Sometimes 30 a day. One older woman came on board with fear and trembling. Her people told her that if she came on board, we would sail away with her. She came anyway. Another woman came with a shaved head. Her village had told her that we would cut off all her hair when we operated, so instead she did it herself. And she came anyway. Then I heard last week of one young man who was agitated in the OR and fought the nurses we then found out that he had been told we would circumcise him if he let us operate on his eyes. It is amazing to me the courage it takes to come to a Mercy ship. And the desperation that brings people here.
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