Well it happened…”rumbling tummies.” A number of us reached into our personal stash of antibiotics and started taking them, along with Imodium! This is my third visit to Armenia, and now I have the dubious distinction of having a “hat trick”!
One of our AAHPO Mission volunteers is in bed with a fever. Tsoline Kojaoghlanian, MD, our infectious disease expert, checked him out and he’ll be okay. Too bad, he’s our most spirited member, singing on the bus, prodding us to do more.
The AAHPO Mission team is changing. Tsoline said her goodbyes. Simona Manasian, MD just arrived. Kirk Tchorbajian, MD is coming. We’ve become real tight as a group. I am so impressed at how talented and good spirited my colleagues are. We all were astonished to learn just how well Alicia Demirjian, MD plays the piano! Really wicked!
Met with Nune Yeghiazaryan, MPA, PhD, the country director for the Armenian Eye Care Project (AECP). She is amazing. She really buoys my spirits the way she makes things happen. By accident I met a colleague from California, Nazareth Darakjian, MD. We both will be going over to the Malayan Eye Hospital to see patients Saturday morning. Guess he’s part of the mission now as well!
Happened to meet Roger Ohanessian, MD, director of the Armenian Eye Care Project (AECP). By coincidence, he’s heading up a mission of American doctors preparing to battle retinopathy of prematurity. Though he is here, most of his American, (non-Armenian) volunteers are still in Mongolia!
My twins (daughter and son) performed volunteer work at a youth center. Now they realize just how lucky they are. Before leaving the U.S., they collected sunglasses and they gave them to some Armenian children, who were real happy. One child did not even know what to do with them.
We’ll need to come back again.
Well, it’s 1:00 a.m. again! Better get some sleep between those rumbles!
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