Time to say goodbye ….
It is astonishing to me how fast time flies on the ship. Seriously - I always joke that the Engineers keep a deep dark black time-warp hole somewhere on Deck…
Mada meets Mercy and Hope – Merry Christmas to all of you!
Tadaaaa - Christmas is here - it snuck up on me and popped up suddenly - as it always does! Time on the ship these days has been very exciting,…
Heute mal auf deutsch :)
Meine Lieben! Einige von euch hatten mich um Updates von Olivienne gebeten (das ist die junge Frau mit dem grossen Tumor, die uns in Atem gehalten hat und wir so…
Merry Christmas & Update!
Hi, my dear friends, family and followers! I am so glad to finally officially announce to you that I have extended my stay on the ship for three more weeks!…
©2015 Mercy Ships -Photo Credit Catrice Wulf - Physical therapists trim a patients cast following tenotomy procedure.
Casts, kids and orthopedic surgery
Hi and greetings from the Africa Mercy! I hope you are all doing well! Sorry that I haven't been able to get to you sooner, the last weeks were very…
Paris on my mind
This morning my heart is heavy when I think of what happened just a few hours earlier in Paris tonight. Only three hours from the place I call my home…
So today the Africa Mercy crew saved a life ….
It is 21:03 local time and I just left the OR after almost 12 hours of surgery. Why am I telling you this? Because I got to witness a miracle…
Shiplife and other random things
Hi, my friends! I hope all is well with you! Today I will share some personal, totally none-medical thoughts with you and try to put into words how my time…
Some insight on the cleft lip / palate surgery we do at Mercy Ships
Tomorrow I will have a day in the OR together with Dr. Tony Giles who does cleft lip and palate surgeries in Africa. Dr. Tony and his wife Ann…