Visiting surgeons deliver miracles  on February 08, 2007 at 9:36
AM, updated September 05, 2008 at 10:16 AM  This is Mary Klaus's
first post from Romblon Province, originally sent early on Feb.
7, Eastern Standard Time.  ROMBLON PROVINCE, Philippines —
Imagine being a little boy and having all your male organs
inside you.  Imagine being a middle-aged woman whose thyroid was
so enlarged you appeared to have swallowed a softball.  Imagine
being six years old and never having had a bowel movement.
Today (Thursday for us, Wednesday for you because we are 13
hours ahead of you on this side of the world), World Surgical
Foundation doctors operated on these people and many others,
changing their lives.  We've only been here a short while, but
it feels like home to the 31 doctors and nurses on this mission.
Of course, it's not like home. Romblon District Hospital has no
computers. There's no paperwork beyond three or four pieces of
paper for the patient's vital signs, which are handwritten.
There's no intercom, jus