miracles and how they happen. When we do surgery here on the Mercy most of it is just ordinary surgery that we see and perform every day in America. Cleft lips and palates, hernias, birthmark removal....all every day stuff to us. But to the people of South East Asia, we are performing miracles because these surgeries are otherwise not even remotely available to them. How many of us in America see adult people walking down the street with unrepaired cleft lips or huge ugly birthmarks on their faces or 10 pound tumors in their abdomens? Well, we saw about 10 of them this week at a surgery screeninghe and that was in just one small community. We should all be so thankful for what we have in America and I wish everyone could experience the things we are seeing and doing. We are on an island with over 100,000 people and there is a general surgeon and an OB/GYN physician. 90% of these people have never seen a physician. So, the things we are doing here are not really miracles.....to us.....but they are miracles to the people we are treating.
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