Guess what? I leave to rejoin the Africa Mercy tomorrow! Guess what else? I have a parting gift for you! Ok, it's not actually from me, it's from National Geographic, but I get to be the one to tell you that...drumroll please...the eight episode series that Nat Geo filmed while I was onboard in Benin last time is now available in the USA! If you've seen me in the past year, you've probably already seen the first episode because I've shown it to everyone who will sit down and watch it with me and I think to date I've seen it over twenty times and can literally quote along with it like some sort of Nat Geo groupie! I'm sooooooo excited for you to be able to actually take a peek into the world of the Africa Mercy because showing my pictures and telling my stories is one thing, and I sure love sharing my experiences onboard, but this series takes you into the lives of our patients...their backstories, their surgeries, and their recovery, and it's phenomenal! Along the way you get to see soooooo many people that made up my community last time I was onboard. Let me tell you, it never gets less surreal to see people I do life with every day, living their lives and doing their thing, on NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC!!! You can watch all eight episodes on the Nat Geo website at www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/surgery-ship/ or just look up The Surgery Ship on Hulu!
I wish I could watch it with each of you! Then you too could benefit from my super helpful interjections every five seconds of, "That's my roomate!" Or, "She sang in my chorus onboard!" Or, "That's my student!" Every once in a while I do actually have a meaningful comment or backstory to contribute, but it's mostly squealing. Happy watching and I'll be back soon, I just gotta wing my way to the Canary Islands first where a big white ship is waiting for me. Tomorrow I leave home, but I'm coming home too!
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