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[Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] Why not? Why? [Music] Get out. [Music] Heavenly Father, thank you so much for a very good voyage here to the large team,
Discover the inspiring story of Mercy Ships, providing life-changing surgeries to patients with severe deformities and injuries in underserved regions.
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Key Takeaways
- Access to specialized surgery can dramatically improve or save lives in underserved communities.
- Medical teams face significant challenges including limited resources, complex cases, and ethical decisions on treatment feasibility.
- Compassionate care and community support are essential components of successful humanitarian medical missions.
- Not all patients can be saved, highlighting the importance of early intervention and comprehensive healthcare infrastructure.
- Mercy Ships combines medical expertise with spiritual and emotional support to provide holistic care.
What the video covers
- Mercy Ships is a humanitarian organization delivering free surgeries to patients with tumors, burns, congenital defects, and postwar injuries in poor regions.
- The documentary follows the medical team as they screen and treat patients with complex and often life-threatening conditions.
- Many patients suffer from conditions untreated locally due to lack of healthcare access, including benign tumors that cause slow death by suffocation.
- The film highlights the emotional and physical challenges faced by surgeons working with limited resources and high-risk cases.
- Some patients, including children, face additional social challenges such as homelessness and lack of guardianship for consent.
- The team performs reconstructive surgeries, including tumor removals and eyelid reconstructions, often dealing with massive blood loss and difficult decisions on treatment limits.
- The documentary shows the profound impact of surgery on patients’ lives, restoring function and hope.
- It also addresses the heartbreaking reality that some patients cannot be helped due to advanced disease or lack of follow-up treatments like chemotherapy.
- The film captures the compassionate care and spiritual support provided by the Mercy Ships team throughout their mission.
- Overall, the documentary provides a humbling insight into global health disparities and the transformative power of medical aid.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and Arrival
- 05:06Patient Stories and Tumor Growth
- 06:27Cerebral Palsy and Treatment Challenges
- 10:20Eyelid Reconstruction Case
- 12:19Challenges with Consent and Homeless Patients
- 14:07Patient Engagement and Emotional Care
- 15:26Surgical Challenges and Blood Loss
- 19:04Post-Surgery Care and Reflections
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but all those that, whether they know it or not, will be coming on board in the months ahead, and grant them not only your healing touch but your love, your salvation in Jesus' [Music] name. Wow.
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[Music] [Applause] My brother, have this sickness coming tomorrow. We're coming. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I'm sorry, that's quite sore and hot sweats and carefully, mini. Hey, the screening days are incredibly overwhelming. Just huge amounts of tumors, terrible burns, contractures,
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terribly deformed limbs, postwar injuries, congenital defects, bodies that are essentially mangled and breaking [Music] down. I'm sure that again.
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[Music] If you live in a part of the world where you don't have access to health care, a benign tumor means death, but it means slow death as it pushes the tongue into the back of the throat and they
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suffocate. His weight, his weight is going down. Yes, he lost. He lost it. I've seen like, and you think, "Oh, it's not possible." But they, it's possible.
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[Music] Now she has to lay, she has to lay down. All right. [Music] When you get into this environment, the need to help is almost intoxicating. He otherwise will. You just don't think it's possible to stop.
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When she was born, there was just a little black on her eye. Okay. Yeah. And as she's growing, the lump became bigger. Was her eye visible when she was born? Could you see her eye? Yes. So, it just got progressively worse. Okay. Even
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though it appears overly aggressive, resecting right down to the bone. Yeah. Yeah. And then putting a skin graft is about the only way to actually have, in the end, have a result where there's nothing there. You develop techniques
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that would be shocking and probably cause quite a lot of anxiety in hospitals that aren't used to seeing people with massive tumors, so they're sort of a routine part of our week.
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[Music] It's amazing to be able to give someone a card that says, "Come back to see us.
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We can do a free surgery for you and your life will be changed from then on." But there's also the people that you see and you think, "Wow, we can't help them." It's hard to say to someone with
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so much hope of being helped, "No, we can't help you and you will die from this."
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[Music] Generally, we would be looking at helping him with malignant cancers in this environment. But because there's no backup with radiation treatment and chemotherapy, then that shouldn't be done.
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Oh man. He has what we would call, um, like, uh, cerebral palsy, like quadriplegic affecting all the limbs. Um, what we generally say is if a child isn't walking by the age of seven, um, it's unlikely that, um, he's going to be
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able to walk then. We can't make the nerves better. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Easy. Easy.
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[Music] Normally, we have some options, uh, available. You're saying no to any form of treatment. It's heartbreaking, really. I suppose the only protection was that there were another 80 patients waiting. The emotion of that tragedy to be replaced by somebody walking towards you
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to sit in your seat. Okay. Right out. Try, try again. Yeah, that's good. That's very good. So, we would be happy to remove that. So, okay. Okay.
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Oh, it's my lucky last card. It's just an experience that you cannot really, uh, describe, really.
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It's a very mixed emotion and, of course, I think it's incredibly humbling. [Music] Hello.
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You're a long way, woman, about [Music] Sila Ibraas. Sorry. [Music] And he will sleep on top. And you. Mhm.
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Good man. That's fine. He's a patient from Cerillion, a lower eyelid reconstruction, and though he is blind in his left eye, can't see.
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So, this little boy drank pic soda a few years ago. So, his tongue was totally stuck to the floor of his mouth and his lips to the gums, his lower lip to the gums. So, after that water round, it's
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Yeah. Takes a moment to kind of settle it in your spirit or my spirit because the patients, every single patient that you see has a really dramatic story like it's full-on surgery for each and a full-on story for each child and it
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takes a bit of time to recalibrate and adjust from Sydney hospitals. Okay, we found one of the patients that we were trying to find the other day. It's Yaya. Um, and he's just a little kid that we saw the day before screening. Someone
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just brought him to us just this morning. He's a cute little kid, huh? Yeah. Dr. Frankle, he just sleeps underneath a bridge and so he's homeless. Does he speak French or Suzu?
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Bonjour. Oh, there we go. Pu there for you. A kid who has, we think, it's osteogenesis imperfecta, which is like a brittle bone disease and it results in a deformity.
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I don't even know if that's a way or French or... We know that he has a grandmother, um, but apparently she's unable to work and not really able to care for him and doesn't really care for him anyways. He
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lives on the street. He's only 7 years old. We need a responsible adult to be able to consent and to be able to do surgery for him. But if he is a source of revenue for grandma, there can be
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some hesitancy because that is a way in a place that is very poor and poverty-stricken to make money. I am his caregiver. If you need something, you give me a [Music] call.
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Huh? Okay. How do you know? [Music] It's okay. Yeah. How you feeling about me?
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[Music] Sister of the sister. Okay. I'm just going to have a look now. Okay.
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Neurofibroma always affects the underlying bone. So you also get overgrowth of the bone. Neurofibroma, which is a tumor that grows through nerves. It may be benign, but it's so locally aggressive and destructive that if you leave it, which you just never
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would dream of doing in Australia, it takes over and deforms. So, just tell them we will take the tumor away. We're going to reconstruct the eyelids.
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The eyeball is normal. She should be able to see with her eye. Does she have any questions for us?
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Some of the kids just kind of rush in and are engaging, but she's kind of steps back to see how you respond. Yeah.
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A lot of our patients with plastics, particularly if they've got facial abnormalities, they often come in with big, um, sort of towels over their head and they're really like creatures of the shadows and they sort of hide in
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the corner and I just, I've got a real sensitive spot for that. So, I always seem to notice those people and I keep a track of them and I'm like, "Oh, are they on our list?" And I look out for
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them. [Music] We're doing this young lady that we met yesterday, her neurofibroma, which will take a little while.
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In relation to plastics, you have a lot of blood loss, particularly in really large tumors. It's a benign tumor. Yes.
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But it is so large that if you start cutting it all out, then you run into vital structures. So you can't take all of it out. So that, that's quite, that is one of the hardest things when you think
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gosh, if only we had seen you maybe 3 years ago, we would have just been able to get that edge that we just can't do. She seems tumor in that lower lip.
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Not really. Probably the biggest challenge is knowing when to stop your dissection. This scissors now [Music] this as though in the background of your mind there's this kind of feeling that you're walking on very thin ice and that
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things are not as, we're not as invincible as we feel in Australia. Just bleeds so much and if you cauterize it, it just keeps on bleeding anyway.
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And her blood lock code is a crank, Z is a zebra, X is an X-ray, 0414. Just be there in a minute. Thanks.
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[Music] Okay, that's about three or 400 C there, right? 160. She's only a small girl and she already lost like just half, more than half of her body's blood volume. So she might lose another three or 400 and then a
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tie. Yeah, she's lost at least a, we don't know what's behind. Okay. When we covered her eye, you can see that it's scarred over. So unfortunately, she won't have vision in her left eye. Yeah, seldom with these very big ones possi
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to remove the whole tumor because it infiltrates into every little structure. But our attempt is to remove as much as we can because it's a very slow growing tumor. So for her to get to this size again over the years, it's going to take
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many years to grow to this size again. But she will need further surgery in future.
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[Music] [Music] Huh? She's just very sleepy. Just tell her she's very very sleepy. Keep it.
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How's things going? Good. Yeah. She said she's very glad for you. Okay. You can tell her the operation went well and by tomorrow she's going to feel much more awake and she will be sitting up and be much more awake than now.
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She can get up morning on her nose. The bum the bottom. The bottom. Does she have them anywhere else in her body?
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Her face. I think it might be acne like normal. I think that's just pimples.
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Yes, pimples. Yeah. She says they can complain. Yeah. Me too. You just need to keep washing your face.
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Yeah. We don't need to cut them off. When I left medical school, I had a real desire to do plastics and I went on the ship and it was so true of all the great stuff that plastic surgery can do. You
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get to do cle and pallet tumor reconstructions. There's all this great micro surgery. It was amazing.
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But if I was going to be a plastic surgeon to fund work that you do overseas, inevitably you have to do cosmetics, boobs and noses and patients that we see in Africa, you got patients with no more with their skin so
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malnourished that their faces half of it rot off. And then just a plain trip away, you have thousands of people that just want to be a little bit skinnier, have just a little bit more augmented breasts. And I just it's
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so it's really too much if you try and think about it. Yeah. [Music] We've been looking at him for days now, trying to figure out how the best way to fix him is. And hi.
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So, if we look straight down at his leg, his ankle's working this way. His knee's working this way. It is a big bow. If you put your fingers right here, you can feel it. And you can follow it down to
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his hip. What do you think, Yaya? We have little pins. These are Styman pens. We were thinking we could maybe stack two pens in there and get sufficient strength. They make special rods for this. uh Sophie rods um or Bailey rods, but we
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um we've got these. Be good to see him walking around at the end of the day.
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Does he like football? Yeah. When he [Laughter] slid his dream, we all have to have dreams.
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a little bit of a problem last night. Uh, wanting to leave and crying a little bit and wanting to be back on the street. Uh, but we got we got him through that. The same man, Mr. Dio, who brought
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Yaya to us, was able to bring Grandma this morning. Yeah. I want to find out uh how much help she really needs, too.
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Grandma's here, Nick. Who is grandma? Oh, really? Yeah. Is she going to get consent? Uh, we're going to find out.
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We're going to find out. Yeah Mr. Good morning. Good morning. How are you? Hello, grandma. How are you? I'm bringing you grandma.
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You're most welcome. Yeah. Hey Nabi. [Music] We will be able to treat him. We'll be able to straighten his legs so he can walk. So we would like him to stay with us so that we can see that he has good
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nutrition, good food. He does not sleep out where it is wet. Like this and then grandma. Who do you want to stay with you? Grandma. Grandma. Excuse me.
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Grandma, you have a work to do. So all those time [Music] and unforgiving [Music] [Music] You want to see that one?
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Once we get him walking and legs straight and everything else, we don't want him going back to the street to beg. I mean, they were the people that accepted him. They were the people that didn't shun him, didn't turn him away.
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They were trapped in the same circumstance of life. Those are connections that I don't think will necessarily have to go away, but I think he'll also be able to form some new connections as he goes to school and as
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he moves on. This just to kind of extend it out. Four or five. What do you think, Yaya? Is it good? Not yet.
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Okay. Yaya, good job. Okay. Can he pass that to Kinda? It's good when you get the little kids to help you. Then these little ones trust you more.
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All right. [Music] All right. Ready? Go for a walk. [Music] She's No, I always I get involved with a couple of kids a year. there's just those ones that get in front of you and kind of pull on your heartstrings and
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you know that okay this is this is one of them and when he first came to us he didn't really interact just kind of looked down didn't want to stay and now I don't think I can make him leave
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and this is becoming a community for him and so that's one another reasons why it's kind of important for us to find a place for him to go that he doesn't lose community when we leave in 10 months
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[Music] [Music] [Music] Facebook. How are you? [Music] Foreign speech. Foreign speech. Foreign speech. You [Music] don't see [Music] [Music] Real number.
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Fore! Foreign! Foreign! photo. [Music] to have [Music] usually set up. I will [Music] That's a half smile.
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So tell her we we just get to take the dressing off and put the new one on. If she feels any pain, you must tell us.
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Okay. She's so gorgeous. Okay, take that off. [Music] Yes sum. She won't have an eyelid because the tumor involved the nerve that makes it open and close as well. So, she won't have much movement at all.
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But there is an eye under there. They've just closed it up. Yeah, the eyes under there, but it's it will always be closed.
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[Music] foreign. Oh [Music] [Music] My muna is really killing me. when we took the dressing off today. It's like honestly the best neurop fibram post up that I've seen with him and he saying yeah and he's quite used to the patient
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looking really like kind of worried and the caregivers looking really kind of angry but he's like yeah it's fine just kills me. I'm like, "Oh, I want to explain how good it really is and the fact that it's going to get better, like
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look a little bit better." Open doctor another few days. Sounds good. All right. Thank you.
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It comes as a shock to them that a doctor, a white doctor, it's come all this way, can't fix everything. Um, and obviously they've they've got a lot of faith in us. I mean, would you then not operate on all these patients that you
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can't get a perfect outcome? I feel that we're acting in the Muno's best interest to remove that amount of tumor.
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You just have to live with their disappointment, I guess, that you're not able to give them a perfect cure.
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[Music] Each day is getting better, huh? Yeah. Sometimes people come from the west and they look around and think, well, you know, this needs to be you need to do this better. You need to do this. And it's many times it's true. We there's
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areas we need to grow in. But sometimes if someone really is struggling, I say, look, let's stop. Why don't you take one day and go and and spend a day in the local hospital and just observe and see
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what goes on there. There you go. [Music] Hello Dr. Dctor National University for France for me for me.
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radio. [Music] Okay, that's it. When I saw him on Monday, the tumor in the front of his mouth, uh, it was large, but he could still open his mouth. So, I don't know whether it's bled into it or it's, you
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know, infection or what's the reason for it being bigger. Okay. If it's growing that fast, we need to sh him as early as we possibly could if he's going to do doing a mandible on him.
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Reasonably anxious. If surgery was convacing that with a plate, it's always a challenge, especially with these little little children. have a sort of combined meeting about that little boy.
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I see. So that would it'd be definitely definitely first. Okay. As the tumor gets larger, it's forcing the tongue back. Still can breathe through the nose. All right. But if it's growing that fast, it's a the child will die of
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obstruction. And it's there's a lot of emotional input and and that's a very unpleasant uh forecast really for him.
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They're just going to take one tiny small piece of tissue from the tumor. They will not take the whole thing out.
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[Music] The policy of the ship is to deal with benign disease. If you have a malignancy where there is no radiation treatment or any chemotherapy backup, then that case will not be put forward for surgery.
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Excellent. Can we ask if we can pray for him? [Music] I thank you for his life. Thank you for your protection. Be with him in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Amen.
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To be held by anyone but papa. [Music] That's his tooth. Yeah. See, it's all the bone. The bone is uh completely gone from there onwards. And that's his canine. Yeah.
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All his teeth are gone from here forward. Sneak that for a moment. Just there has been a bleed into this tumor.
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See that there? So there's been a bleed into the actual tumor itself and which is almost certainly the reason why it's suddenly increased in size. And we'll send this for cytology.
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Are you happy to take the cells that are in that syringe now and then and plate it out?
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[Music] And the cells vary tremendously in size and shape. It's about the biggest you should ever see a sound.
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[Music] Oh yeah. Hi. Some of the tissue tissue down there. [Music] more. What I am [Music] It's such an aggressive tumor that it's going to be in so many different places that you're just going to get coming back in different sites and it's going
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to be worse than it was to start with. If the end result is inevitable, we do not want to give him extra pain and suffering for him and his family.
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Yeah, you always want to do something. Anybody can operate. It's uh the wisdom is in knowing when not to operate. And I think that uh this is a real case in point here is [Music] so I have to help the father to
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understand the reason why the boy cannot have surgery. You know sometimes I do go and ask myself how do I do this because to tell someone the news like that is very difficult.
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[Music] He said the mother left the child and run away. So he really hold on the child which is a good thing.
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Most of the cases the child is completely abandoned other the grandmother will take care but seeing a father taking care is very [Music] rare. Sometime the parents get scared.
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They hear also from people that this child is possessed by demon. So they push that child away and thinking if I go near the child I'll be possessed and they don't have the full understanding.
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It take somebody to help them to understand that not this is a purely medical. Of course there's some that are demonic attack but it's not all of them.
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[Music] [Music] [Music] Papa. Okay, we can do it here. How many children did he have? I forget who else.
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All in this. Okay. Okay, they took the sample yesterday and they explained to him that they will check and see how sickness is it. And the sad news is unfortunately the type of uh tumor that her son have have related to the cancer.
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It's not a tumor that you can operate on and if you cut it will spread and it will spread all over the body and it will be even more dangerous.
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But all hope is not lost. We know that there's a God that what we human being we cannot do. He is able. He's the one creator that you know what is best for us. Okay.
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[Music] Now he's here. So the doctor want to make sure that he understand that surgery is not possible and even though he's sad, the doctor is sad, everybody is sad.
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[Music] [Music] Sab no problem. He's not the abandonment that he must feel looking after that child and then with the extra load of a terminal illness. Um I just knew that he was a father and that was his son and um
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you know there's there's just so much loss going on there. [Music] [Music] Um I'm not quite sure he knows where he's at right now with the free medication. He's he was happy to see me.
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He was happy to see the iPad. And why don't you lay back? Just waiting for the O to call and get started. Um I think we have him all checked. We have two units of blood set up. Maybe you can explain
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to him you'll spend the night in the ICU. We're all set for him. [Music] I gave it eight. So, right. Okay. You want to give him a hug or we just go?
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[Music] All right. [Music] Okay. We'll take very good care of her. Probably uh four to 5 hours.
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[Music] What do you call this procedure? Um, we'll have a laundry list of um, procedures from fasciottomy to fibctomy, osteotomy. Oh, we're in a straight and crooked [Music] leg. Why don't you come down just a little here? We can make them a little
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longer and then we can shorten it if we need to hold it right there. Okay. No, no, I can't hold it up in the air and his foot won't uh [Music] So, yeah, but let's uh pull him out,
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change it, rotate him, and then [Music] still too long. Too long. Yeah. By Oh, by quite a bit. Okay. Yeah. Let me have the drill. I'm going to do this the oldfashioned way.
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[Music] It's a long surgery, but you'll be fine. God is here. [Laughter] She loves you. I love you, too. It's a good grandmother.
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[Music] [Music] Wait. Okay. [Music] [Music] That also you understand? Very good. [Music] they will go up country. They live up up country in a village with the rest of the family. We don't know much about the the the mother right now, but uh so they
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they want to go back. That's where they uh are comfortable. [Music] That's always difficult because most of the time we can't give them enough medicine uh because we can only maybe give them a month or two months supply
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and we can promise that they will uh end before that you know uh most of the time I think they may not uh our hope is we are juicing easy to find pain medicines uh so they they should be able to find it even
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close to a village. Uh but of course then they have to pay for it. Yeah.
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[Music] We're there. We don't want to be any more than that. At this point, we've been going since about 9:00 this morning and it's now almost 5:00. So almost 8 hours.
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[Music] just tradition. I wanted to be here just to witness it and be able to tell him about it and what happened and see what was going on and also just to be able to maybe help him through it a little bit better.
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Craig, we updated his age from seven. The original seven. I can tell you he's older than seven. He's older. Yeah.
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Probably 9 or 10. He's probably closer to 10. Yeah. We've turned everything, you know, 90° at his ankle and 110 degrees at in the middle of his knee.
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And we've turned his hips. We moved him 4 to 500°. [Music] Which side is it? He said it was his right foot. His right leg that was going to sit down.
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[Music] [Music] Okay. You happy with that? Okay, we should just get them all. Apple eye touches takes three points off the pain score. Yeah. Okay.
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[Music] Do you mind telling her that this is a very special present for her just for her?
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[Music] Thank you very much. [Music] I found that really difficult. They're not really understanding the recovery process. But then I guess about a week into it and they see the change. Yeah.
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It's really special to be part of that and you really can experience their joy.
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[Music] That's good. [Music] [Music] Oh, see you later. [Music] You're [Music] not careful. There's still some big questions out there that it's never as simple as, you know, make their legs straight and let them walk. You know, it seems very
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simple to western mindset. Grandma really wants him to come live with her. Um, and he probably wants to live with her whether she has very good ability to take care of him. And so, we're looking at different options. I might be funding
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school for him or also we're looking at an option of a boarding school. Grandma was not very keen on the idea of an orphanage um just because of what that represents. Um but a boarding school is a little bit more easily
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accepted. So he'll be home on vacation. It's just a place to go to school and he happens to sleep.
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[Music] Hello. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Yeah, I can finally breathe. Hey. Wow. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah. [Music] Hallelujah. every [Applause] [Music] day. Drop the eye. [Music] [Music] Alhamdulillah. Huh? Uh-huh.
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[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Okay. Oh, okay. [Music] like [Music] [Music] Mother. Okay. Come on.
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[Music] [Applause] Yeah. Yeah. Okay. [Music] Thank you. [Music] Oh yeah. Okay. Oh. Oh. Oh.
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[Music] Does he think he will do it? Yeah. Yeah. You're going to stand straight. Walk strong. Yeah.
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Yeah. That's a big step. That's a big step. Going to be able to make it back.
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I'll help him turn. The more he does it, the less sore he will be. Yeah.
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Okay. I'll help him. [Music] Good work. Yeah. Good job. Good. I think he's a bit sore now. Will I come back to see him? It's definitely hard. I think he's secure. You know, I'm going to take care of at least through high school
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getting him going. You have to walk strong. And also, I have my two daughters and our family.
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That's Kylie. Kylie Savannah going to be in who knows how many other countries during that time. And so there's just Yeah, there's a lot of uncertainty of what does life look like and what will it be.
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[Music] Yeah, it's good. Not the same girl. This one happy girl. It is very different.
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[Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] Hallelujah. [Music] I Fin [Music] can along. [Applause] When you first come, you're very idealistic. You're like, you know, oh man, we're going to make such a difference. We're going to do great and amazing
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things, but we're just doing a drop in the bucket with some of the surgical load that's here. We're not going to fix Guinea, but we make incredible impacts on individual lives.
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[Music] the CTM please. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] The lamp was A little [Music] [Music] bit. Make your life.
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