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a long time since… | brin - a dog from afghanistan
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Brin – a dog from afghanistan. A stray who became a hero. A love lost…. Update on Brin… →. A long time since…. It’s been such a long time since I have written and there is much to tell you about Brin. Since my last post we have lost dear Jacob and the wonderful, if slightly crazy, Dennis. So mother, father and son are reunited once more. We know when these things are creeping up on us all and we go each day with the ‘one more day’ mantra…but then comes ‘the day’. Will always love you. A love lost…. You a...
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# 23 – Hope and Healing part 2: Orthopedics | Nell goes to Mercy Ships
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Nell goes to Mercy Ships. Helping to provide healthcare to the world's poor. 23 – Hope and Healing part 2: Orthopedics. February 11, 2016. April 19, 2016. If you’re committing these columns to memory (and if not, why not? You’ll recall from last week that the ship has five ‘surgical programs’: maxillofacial, fistula, orthopedics, general surgery and plastics. This week: orthopedics. An overview of orthopedic surgery. Fernando playing on Deck 7. Photo credit: Deb Louden. Photo credit: Josh Callow. Sometim...
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Nell goes to Mercy Ships | Helping to provide healthcare to the world's poor | Page 2
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Nell goes to Mercy Ships. Helping to provide healthcare to the world's poor. 27 – Music on the Mercy. April 8, 2016. April 16, 2016. For this post, I’d like to share some of my musical adventures during my time on the Africa Mercy. I haven’t talked much about it so far, but music has been a big part of my life here, and one of the fondest memories I’ll take away from this experience. Continue reading →. March 20, 2016. I’m not going to write about this trip in depth, like I did for the last one. PS For t...
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#34 – Farewell to Benin | Nell goes to Mercy Ships
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Nell goes to Mercy Ships. Helping to provide healthcare to the world's poor. 34 – Farewell to Benin. November 30, 2016. November 30, 2016. Well, that went fast. Four and a half weeks, gone in a blur, and so I must say my farewell to Benin (for now, at least. Who knows if/when I’ll be able to go back? But I’d like to). I’ll carry away some precious memories, and some new friends, and most excitingly of all, a new dress! Photo credit: Tom Waechter. Photo credit: Tom Waechter. Photo credit: Michelle Pullen.
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April | 2016 | Nell goes to Mercy Ships
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Nell goes to Mercy Ships. Helping to provide healthcare to the world's poor. 29 – I’m in the mood for dancing. April 26, 2016. April 29, 2016. Photo credit: Penelope Hilton-Barber (I was a little busy at the time for photo taking, you may have noticed). Continue reading →. 28 – Hope and Healing part 5 – Plastics. April 18, 2016. April 18, 2016. Welcome to part 5 in my series about Mercy Ships and its medical mission. This week: plastics. A warning. Three of the littlest plastic patients during deck 7 time.
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#33 – The army of ghosts | Nell goes to Mercy Ships
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Nell goes to Mercy Ships. Helping to provide healthcare to the world's poor. 33 – The army of ghosts. November 19, 2016. November 19, 2016. The governer’s house, with the gatehouse on the right and the curtain wall behind. The museum is in the house. Photo credit: Tom Waechter. Some of the original cannons. Photo credit: Tom Waechter. One of the modern Voodoo statues lining the slave route. Photo credit: Tom Waechter. The Gate of No Return. Photo credit: Tom Waechter. So that was my day in Ouidah. Li...
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#31 – Passing the time | Nell goes to Mercy Ships
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Nell goes to Mercy Ships. Helping to provide healthcare to the world's poor. 31 – Passing the time. May 20, 2016. Regular readers of this blog may be wondering what I do to pass the time when stuck on a ship 150m long and 30m wide (I’m prepared to admit I may be vastly over-estimating your interest in the obscure details of my everyday existence, but then why are you reading this blog? Well, in between the dancing. And the music and the observing-a-surgery. I have various methods of keeping entertained.
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#27 – Music on the Mercy | Nell goes to Mercy Ships
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Nell goes to Mercy Ships. Helping to provide healthcare to the world's poor. 27 – Music on the Mercy. April 8, 2016. April 16, 2016. For this post, I’d like to share some of my musical adventures during my time on the Africa Mercy. I haven’t talked much about it so far, but music has been a big part of my life here, and one of the fondest memories I’ll take away from this experience. Piano recital for the entertainment of the crew during the 9-day sail to Madagascar. Pray for the People. Spirituals from ...
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nellwhiteway | Nell goes to Mercy Ships
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Nell goes to Mercy Ships. Helping to provide healthcare to the world's poor. 34 – Farewell to Benin. November 30, 2016. November 30, 2016. Well, that went fast. Four and a half weeks, gone in a blur, and so I must say my farewell to Benin (for now, at least. Who knows if/when I’ll be able to go back? But I’d like to). I’ll carry away some precious memories, and some new friends, and most excitingly of all, a new dress! 33 – The army of ghosts. November 19, 2016. November 19, 2016. Read on, dear reader.
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