Hey, I've got a tip for you.
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Don't walk in a rainforest
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when it's raining if
you don't want to get wet,
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but let me tell you, it
was worth it coming up here.
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This view is
absolutely tremendous.
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And I don't know
if you've ever done
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what I've done, I
love to do on waterfalls.
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And that's, you know,
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you start at the top
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and pick out a droplet of water
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and follow it all the way down.
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Because that's
really what a waterfall is,
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is all those individual droplets
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on a waterfall this big,
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but it's spectacular.
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It's an amazing creation of God.
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Pohnpei is filled
with waterfalls everywhere.
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And it just, like I say,
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it reminds me directly
from the hand of the Creator.
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There, you know,
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it's been destroyed really
by thousands of years of sin,
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but it still remains enough
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to give us a visual
indication of the Creator God.
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Well, I just came under
from the wet to the dry.
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You know, there's a
huge overhang with a cave,
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I want you to
check out in a moment.
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But, I mean, it's wonderful.
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I'm soaking wet.
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I'm filthy dirty now.
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But this is what
you come out here for.
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This is the fun.
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This is the
exploration to see the beauty,
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to see everything
of God's creation.
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You can hear the waterfall
just right off to the side
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of us cascading over the cave.
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So now it's time
to check out the cave.
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You know,
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this is exciting up here
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but I would have
never found my way up here.
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Well, you know,
maybe after some time,
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but they may have found my body.
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But my buddy here, Mr. Dee.
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He's my guide.
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And he's got a
lot of good stories,
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because as a
child you came up here.
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Tell me what you were sharing
something about honeybees
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or something?
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Yeah, we used to
come during our time
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I was in elementary like 1960s.
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We come up here and
we hide all over under.
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And we have to
use the stick to poke.
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How did you get
a stick that tall?
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Those are really tall.
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Oh, no, they are low.
That's side it's very low.
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Very low.
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Yeah.
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So we have to go up and
poke, you know, the lower ones.
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When they fell, these honeybees,
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they're all over us,
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stinging us, and sometimes
our eyes are so swollen,
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we cannot see.
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So my question is,
why did you do that?
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Just fun and we
like the taste of,
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you know, the honey.
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Yeah.
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And just making
fun of each other.
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I want you to know, I
like him as a brother.
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I've got my arm around him.
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But I've also
got my arm around him
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so he doesn't
fall off the cliff.
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Tell me another story.
What about these caves?
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There's a lot of lore involved.
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You know, when I
first came up here,
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you could not see rocks here.
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It's covered by, you know,
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the waste from the
bats and the swiftlet.
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It's all over here.
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So we go inside there
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and we just slide down in the...
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In the bat guano.
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Yeah.
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So now people found out that
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it's really good for fertilizer.
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It's all gone.
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Just clean up nothing.
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It's only a little bit left.
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So you're not
going to be tempted today
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to slide down anywhere.
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No, it's all rocks in.
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We cannot do that anymore.
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Oh, man, I'm getting to
know you better all with that.
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Do you have any other stories
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that you haven't
told us about the cave?
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You've always got a great story.
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Let's say you're out of stories.
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Well, there is a
place that side just like...
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Don't go away from me
too far, you are getting...
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Pile of rocks.
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And people believe
that when you come up here,
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you have to bring
branches or bees or leaves,
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bushes and leave it
on that pile of rocks.
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I'll have to go over there
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because I got it
all over my clothes
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so I can leave in there.
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So that you don't
get accident here.
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They believe that the ghost
or the spirits will protect you
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when you are
here if you do that.
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Okay. All right.
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And I think today we forgot.
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That's okay. We've got the Lord.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Hey, I appreciate it.
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We got to check
out the caves now.
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So all this is all
bat guano everywhere.
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It's all over.
Here it's just below.
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Before in 1960s and
70s you cannot see rocks.
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I know it's a lot more up
there because I can smell it.
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It's strong.
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Matter of fact,
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I was going to stay up in
the cave for a little bit,
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explore a little more,
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but it is way too strong for me.
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I'm coming back a little ways.
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This is absolutely beautiful.
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It's a nice place
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where people
come for a picnic or,
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you know, they
come just to relax.
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Picnic, boy, the
Pohnpeians are strong,
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because that's quite a journey.
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But whenever they come
here, they have to, you know,
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they believe that you
have to bring leave or things,
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something to offer
to the spirits here.
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Okay.
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So that you will
have good luck here.
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So you grabbed the leaf.
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You're going to
show us how to do?
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The leaves and see
people who came before us
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they have all
these pile of leaves.
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And what spirit is
this supposed to be to?
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I'm not sure.
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But, you know,
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they say the spirit
here will protect you
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while you are here.
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So just kind of cover
their beds, hedge their beds.
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Yeah.
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They don't know
if it works or not?
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No.
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But I know you
and I have talked,
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we serve the God of heaven.
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Yeah, many times I came here,
I don't bring these things.
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So, you know,
this is just a belief
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that the people here have.
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How much time did you spend here
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do you think over the years?
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Not really many,
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whenever tourists or you know
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some of the student missionaries
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would like to come up here,
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I bring them up here.
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When you stay with missionaries.
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So maybe once a
year, maybe in a year,
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maybe they come up here
maybe three, four times.
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Three, four times?
Oh, that's quite a bit.
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All right.
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Yes, I noticed this too.
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This is beautiful
over here, the waterfall.
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Yeah, it's a little bit small.
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Sometimes it's really
big when it's raining.
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The waterfall will
be really pouring down.
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Had to stop here for a moment
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and just give you an idea
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of the grandeur
of this location.
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It is massive. It's stunning.
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Absolutely beautiful.
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I'm going to
think about the size
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and I feel like almost an ant
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against these massive cliffs.
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Think about the
Lord, Isaiah says,
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"I sit on the
circle of the earth.
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Everybody's like
grasshoppers to me."
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And God is so
awesome, so wonderful.
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And to think He came down here
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to planet earth to talk with us,
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to walk among us.
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Is this amazing?
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Yes, it is.
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God is more amazing.
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We've got so much more for you.
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I invite you to stay tuned
because we'll be right back.
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So tell me doctor,
we're in what room right now?
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We had a hard
place in the hospital
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finding a place
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where we wouldn't
be totally obtrusive.
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That's right.
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We're in the area
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where all the
instruments are autoclaved.
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And some instruments are
stored as you can see here.
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And we have tabletop autoclaves
that we use for ophthalmology
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because our
instruments are small.
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So we have two different sizes,
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kind of a medium and a large
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that have larger cassettes
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that where the cooking
of the instruments occurs.
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And as we're talking here,
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you'll hear
occasionally a little err sound.
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Yeah, what is that
sound for our viewers?
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It's going to drive
them crazy, probably,
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but we'll focus on you.
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Right, but that's a sound
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that makes us having to do with.
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Just like in a pressure cooker,
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it's maintaining
a certain pressure
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as the
instruments are being cooked.
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And then once the cycle is done,
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then it starts venting off gas,
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which is another
interesting sound,
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you may hear as we go along.
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Okay.
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Can I assume that
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your team brought
all of these instruments?
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No, these are instruments
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that the hospital pass
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and they are
generally much larger,
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you know, for all
different types of cases
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that they might do.
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There's general surgeons here
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and we've already witnessed them
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doing some amputations.
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We've also
witnessed a C section birth,
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you know, not, well,
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I mean, through the window,
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we didn't assist with it, but...
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So everything...
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Normal cases going on here.
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Everything you bring
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is more specialized a
lot smaller typically.
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That's right.
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We have instruments
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that are generally small enough
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that it's hard to
tell what they are
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without putting them
under the microscope.
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Okay.
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And so an entire
tray would be about,
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you know, a little bit
bigger than my hand of,
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say, 10 or so instruments
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that we would use
for a routine case.
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And then we have our
accessory instruments,
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either in other
trays or in sterile bags
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that can be opened as needed.
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Now, I know you've got a
real heart for Canvasback.
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You've been a driving force,
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recruiting and
bringing people together
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to participate in these teams.
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Tell me a
little more about that?
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Well, I first went,
I believe is in 2002,
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on an ophthalmology trip,
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and I enjoyed it enough
that I went a few more times.
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And it turned out
that until this trip,
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they were all in
one of the locations
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that we go to in
the Marshall Islands.
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But I believe this is my fifth
or sixth trip that I've made,
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and it evolved
into me, you know,
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directing it as medically
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and getting the doctors together
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and the team members,
which is really a lot of fun.
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Because when you tell them,
we're going to go help people,
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and we're going to
do this kind of work,
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and we're going to go,
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you know, to an
interesting place,
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then they're usually saying,
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"Oh, I'd really like to
go, let me check my calendar."
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And sometimes
there's problems with that.
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But I don't usually
have to ask too many people
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before we get team together.
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For this particular team,
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how long did it actually
take you to recruit the team?
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I'd say it came together
over maybe a two month period,
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something like that.
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That is pretty rapidly, really.
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Yes.
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Yeah, some,
every once in a while,
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there's a key position
where I have to ask more people
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to make it work out.
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Okay.
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Now, tell us what
type of people are needed
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on these kinds of teams?
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Well, certainly for
an ophthalmology team,
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we need people
with special skills.
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So besides
surgeons, we need assistance,
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who are used to
doing that kind of work
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so that we can be efficient.
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And, so it's a
special skill set.
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We have a pool of people
who say, I really like to help,
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but I've never
worked with eyes before.
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And those people can
come and can be of help,
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and we can train them in.
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But we can't go only
on those kind of people,
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we need people,
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as I said, had
the special skill set.
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And so I'm specifically
looking for those people.
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Okay.
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Tell me a little bit more
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why you have such a
heart for Canvasback?
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Well, I just, I
enjoy helping people.
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That's why I became a
doctor in the first place.
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And then there's
a further enjoyment
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from doing it for as a
volunteer to help people
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who especially may not
have access to the care.
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Nobody gets paid for this?
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That's right.
It's a volunteer thing.
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So that's a special joy.
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So when you, when
I go on a vacation,
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that's enjoyable,
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but it's even more
enjoyable to spend vacation time
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doing something
that's helping people.
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And we usually have a day
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or so where we
can enjoy the area
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we're in doing excursion
or something that's fun, too.
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But the biggest fun
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is seeing
working with the people,
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seeing the smiles on their faces
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and knowing that we've
made an impact in their lives.
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We saw some...
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We were watching some
post-op, removing the bandages,
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these people who
couldn't see apparently,
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hardly the hand
in front of the face
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all of a sudden can now see it.
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That's got to be rewarding.
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Right, and we don't
always get to see that here
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but when we operate
just before the weekend,
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then we get to
go in on the weekend
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and see some of that,
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which I was able to
do a couple days ago.
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And that's probably
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the most fun of the trip for me.
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Get to see the
fruits of your labor.
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Right, because the doctors
are in the clinic all the time.
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They see it
pretty much every day.
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And that's that is probably
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one of the more really fun parts
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to see those smiles.
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And when I get to see them
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on that one day
and then sometimes,
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as I, as we come in
and do their second eye,
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it's often
possible to do on the trip
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that we get to see them.
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Why do you do one eye at a time?
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Oh, well, there are
some risks with surgery
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and one risk is that
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they can have an
infection in their eye
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which can be devastating.
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Usually, if we catch
it, we can reverse it.
00:14:29.56\00:14:31.93
But it could be devastating
00:14:31.97\00:14:33.30
and even lead to loss of the eye
00:14:33.34\00:14:34.84
or loss of vision or
the loss of the eye itself.
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And so, this is a reason
00:14:37.41\00:14:39.61
probably not to
do both eyes at once.
00:14:39.64\00:14:41.58
Although to be honest,
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it is
increasing in its frequency
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around the world
and how it's being done.
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But I would say probably
00:14:47.15\00:14:49.05
not the best for
a mission situation.
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And so that's why
we steer clear of it.
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Another thing you
can think of is that
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we're putting
an implant lens in,
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it's based on a calculation.
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And that
calculation could be off
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to the left or to the right
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that is
nearsighted or farsighted.
00:15:03.83\00:15:06.23
And if you do the
second eye at different time,
00:15:06.27\00:15:09.00
then you can change the
lens implant for that eye
00:15:09.04\00:15:11.87
to try to make the outcome
be even more precise, possible.
00:15:11.91\00:15:14.94
Okay.
00:15:14.98\00:15:17.95
Riburty was born blind.
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That's right.
00:15:19.71\00:15:21.05
He couldn't see it all.
00:15:21.08\00:15:22.42
The entire family
were his caregivers.
00:15:22.45\00:15:25.42
Their lives were completely tied
00:15:25.45\00:15:27.29
to the needs of
their little son.
00:15:27.32\00:15:29.99
The doctors at the
hospital lacked the experience
00:15:30.03\00:15:33.50
to provide him
with surgical help.
00:15:33.53\00:15:36.33
This situation
continued for six long years.
00:15:36.36\00:15:40.50
Making less than $100 per month,
00:15:40.54\00:15:43.27
there is no way to
ever afford the surgery.
00:15:43.30\00:15:46.71
Even if they
could fly off island,
00:15:46.74\00:15:49.91
the surgery in another
country could be $12,000.
00:15:49.94\00:15:54.38
It looked like
all hope was gone.
00:15:54.42\00:15:56.99
Enter the Canvasback Super Team.
00:15:57.02\00:15:59.65
Riburty was examined and
the surgery was performed.
00:15:59.69\00:16:03.19
The day the bandages came off,
00:16:03.22\00:16:05.43
he saw his parents and siblings
00:16:05.46\00:16:07.16
for the very first time.
00:16:07.20\00:16:09.26
He and the family were set free.
00:16:09.30\00:16:12.30
There are more
children like Riburty
00:16:12.33\00:16:14.27
who are in desperate need.
00:16:14.30\00:16:16.10
You can change many lives.
00:16:16.14\00:16:18.24
Please give sight to the blind.
00:16:18.27\00:16:20.21
Log on to canvasback.org today
00:16:20.24\00:16:23.11
to give your gift of love.
00:16:23.14\00:16:25.71
Dr. Chen,
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I heard him say this
morning in our meeting,
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I believe it was what,
00:16:29.38\00:16:30.72
the greatest cause of
blindness is glaucoma.
00:16:30.75\00:16:35.59
Well, he said cataracts.
00:16:35.62\00:16:36.96
Cataracts, excuse
me, yeah, cataract, yeah.
00:16:36.99\00:16:38.33
Yeah.
00:16:38.36\00:16:39.69
There's estimated to be about
00:16:39.73\00:16:41.06
20 to 30 million
people worldwide,
00:16:41.10\00:16:42.70
who are blind in
both eyes with cataracts.
00:16:42.73\00:16:46.57
And this is an estimated number,
00:16:46.60\00:16:47.94
it's hard to really pin it down.
00:16:47.97\00:16:50.17
Many of them are
in areas of the world
00:16:50.21\00:16:52.61
you would expect
that are the poorest
00:16:52.64\00:16:54.24
and have the least
access to health care.
00:16:54.28\00:16:57.68
I have a colleague
00:16:57.71\00:16:59.05
who's been to Ethiopia
00:16:59.08\00:17:00.42
where there's probably
00:17:00.45\00:17:01.78
over a million of those patients
00:17:01.82\00:17:03.15
are in that country
where there are approximately,
00:17:03.18\00:17:05.99
I think, four ophthalmologists
per million residents
00:17:06.02\00:17:10.19
or maybe somewhere around there.
00:17:10.23\00:17:12.36
And some of the
areas are quite rural.
00:17:12.39\00:17:14.70
And so, the more remote places,
00:17:14.73\00:17:18.13
the more likely are the patients
00:17:18.17\00:17:20.50
that are underserved by
health resources like that.
00:17:20.54\00:17:24.81
And Canvasback is
always in need of volunteers.
00:17:24.84\00:17:27.01
Many volunteers
are going all the time,
00:17:27.04\00:17:30.08
not just eye but
orthopedic and gynecology
00:17:30.11\00:17:35.45
and ear nose and
throat specialist
00:17:35.48\00:17:37.12
and the list kind of goes on.
00:17:37.15\00:17:39.49
What would you say to folks,
00:17:39.52\00:17:41.22
why they're needed
00:17:41.26\00:17:42.59
it all their expertise
00:17:42.62\00:17:43.96
or non-expertise
assistants, whatever?
00:17:43.99\00:17:46.16
Why are they needed?
00:17:46.19\00:17:47.63
Well, they're needed
00:17:47.66\00:17:49.06
because many
hands make light work.
00:17:49.10\00:17:55.07
That's what I would say.
00:17:55.10\00:17:56.44
So we need people to come,
00:17:56.47\00:18:00.44
we need their
enthusiasm, either.
00:18:00.48\00:18:02.98
But we need
their hands, you know,
00:18:03.01\00:18:05.41
to do the work
that needs to be done.
00:18:05.45\00:18:07.62
And at every phase of the trip,
00:18:07.65\00:18:12.65
there's
surprised to be dealt with,
00:18:12.69\00:18:14.59
there's patients
to be dealt with.
00:18:14.62\00:18:17.09
Sometimes when children
of the workers come along,
00:18:17.13\00:18:20.86
we use them as runners to
communicate back and forth,
00:18:20.90\00:18:23.93
pass notes or walk patients back
00:18:23.97\00:18:26.87
and forth between the clinic
and the operating room here.
00:18:26.90\00:18:29.67
So we try to get
everybody involved.
00:18:29.70\00:18:32.57
And if when we
have a smaller trip
00:18:32.61\00:18:35.68
and fewer people,
00:18:35.71\00:18:37.21
then there's so many,
00:18:37.25\00:18:40.92
there's so much more
exhausting these can.
00:18:40.95\00:18:43.25
We try to do
everything yourself,
00:18:43.28\00:18:45.09
and you can't take
care of too many patients.
00:18:45.12\00:18:48.62
Now, I've heard
this before as well.
00:18:48.66\00:18:50.73
Why don't you just
stay in the United States
00:18:50.76\00:18:52.59
because there's
lots of need right there?
00:18:52.63\00:18:54.63
Why travel
halfway across the world?
00:18:54.66\00:18:57.17
Well, there...
00:18:57.20\00:19:00.04
I would not deny that there
are needs in the United States,
00:19:00.07\00:19:03.00
I would just say that seems
like there are greater needs
00:19:03.04\00:19:05.87
in other countries.
00:19:05.91\00:19:07.58
And there are
patients in the United States
00:19:07.61\00:19:13.05
who do not have insurance.
00:19:13.08\00:19:15.08
And I have been
involved personally
00:19:15.12\00:19:17.29
in helping some
of those patients
00:19:17.32\00:19:19.02
to get cataract
surgery that they need.
00:19:19.05\00:19:21.22
And it's that's
very rewarding also,
00:19:21.26\00:19:23.76
believe me,
00:19:23.79\00:19:25.13
and we get some wonderful
thank you notes from patients
00:19:25.16\00:19:27.06
who were able to
help them get care,
00:19:27.10\00:19:30.17
otherwise they
couldn't have gotten.
00:19:30.20\00:19:31.77
So we have that
every day mission
00:19:31.80\00:19:34.14
that we do back home.
00:19:34.17\00:19:36.37
But I would say that
00:19:36.40\00:19:37.74
the absolute numbers
00:19:37.77\00:19:39.11
of those patients are pretty low
00:19:39.14\00:19:40.48
compared to some
other places in the world.
00:19:40.51\00:19:43.45
Okay.
00:19:43.48\00:19:45.98
The financial
numbers for Canvasback,
00:19:46.01\00:19:50.32
it costs money to
bring a team here,
00:19:50.35\00:19:53.02
but the amount of money
00:19:53.05\00:19:54.39
that comes out
of it as far as the,
00:19:54.42\00:19:56.73
well, basically the
amount money that's,
00:19:56.76\00:20:00.60
what's the word I'm looking for?
00:20:00.63\00:20:02.76
It's about a million
dollars worth of procedures
00:20:02.80\00:20:05.50
and things that are done
totally free for the people.
00:20:05.53\00:20:09.40
Why would you say
00:20:09.44\00:20:10.77
and I know you're a supporter
00:20:10.81\00:20:12.84
of the ministry
financially also,
00:20:12.87\00:20:14.51
why would you say that people
should support Canvasback?
00:20:14.54\00:20:18.11
Well, my answer
would be that the,
00:20:18.15\00:20:23.18
when you're,
00:20:23.22\00:20:24.55
the money that you give
00:20:24.59\00:20:25.92
has a kind of a tangible result.
00:20:25.95\00:20:28.42
And that's something a
lot of, when I'm a donor,
00:20:28.46\00:20:31.06
I love to see that, you
know, you get to see, you know,
00:20:31.09\00:20:34.00
that you're
helping people see better,
00:20:34.03\00:20:36.30
or get care that they
otherwise couldn't get.
00:20:36.33\00:20:39.63
And so that's,
it's very rewarding.
00:20:39.67\00:20:42.34
And so it's something
tangible that you can see.
00:20:42.37\00:20:44.41
And I believe it's
pretty efficient financially.
00:20:44.44\00:20:47.18
In other words,
for an amount of money,
00:20:47.21\00:20:49.84
some organizations,
00:20:49.88\00:20:51.21
I don't know what
Canvasback number is there,
00:20:51.25\00:20:52.85
they actually have a
number of dollars per eye
00:20:52.88\00:20:55.28
that sees better.
00:20:55.32\00:20:56.75
And this is a
calculation that can be done,
00:20:56.79\00:20:59.45
but it's something
that that just goes to show
00:20:59.49\00:21:02.16
how your dollars can
get a tangible result,
00:21:02.19\00:21:07.13
and help to,
00:21:07.16\00:21:09.90
help people to see
kind of the love of Christ
00:21:09.93\00:21:14.17
in action you know,
00:21:14.20\00:21:15.54
and I think that's a neat thing.
00:21:15.57\00:21:17.74
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field of health in Micronesia,
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Wow, it is, it is
raining out there.
00:22:26.24\00:22:29.88
I can't hardly
believe the amount of rain,
00:22:29.91\00:22:31.65
hopefully it quits pretty soon.
00:22:31.68\00:22:33.18
But I really came to,
00:22:33.21\00:22:35.38
you know, check
out the waterfall
00:22:35.42\00:22:36.99
to look at the area.
00:22:37.02\00:22:38.85
And as I look at all this,
00:22:38.89\00:22:40.22
I can't help but
think about Jesus Christ.
00:22:40.26\00:22:42.76
Jesus said,
00:22:42.79\00:22:44.13
"You know, I am
the living water."
00:22:44.16\00:22:46.33
He and the disciples
arrived on a desert place.
00:22:46.36\00:22:48.43
I know right now
it's a little hard
00:22:48.46\00:22:50.00
to think about a desert place
00:22:50.03\00:22:51.93
with all of this
water but there He was,
00:22:51.97\00:22:54.60
they put in a hard day
00:22:54.64\00:22:56.74
worth of labor
already by lunchtime.
00:22:56.77\00:22:59.57
Disciples went
someplace to find lunch.
00:22:59.61\00:23:02.24
Jesus lingered
around this town of Samaria.
00:23:02.28\00:23:05.51
Now, the Jews,
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they didn't really
care for the Samaritans.
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They didn't talk,
they didn't communicate.
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But Jesus found
Himself at a well,
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this woman came
out of the village,
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she stopped,
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she dropped her
bucket into the well.
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And Jesus said,
"Would you give me a drink?"
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Well, this was extremely strange
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because no Jew would
ever talk to a Samaritan
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and let alone a woman.
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She said, "Sir, you're
asking me for a drink?"
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And Jesus then said to her,
00:23:32.81\00:23:34.24
"You know, if you
really knew who I was,
00:23:34.28\00:23:37.21
I would offer you living water."
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And then she said,
in this communication,
00:23:40.58\00:23:43.49
the Holy Spirit's working
in her heart, in her life.
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And she said, "Sir,
yes, I would like that water.
00:23:45.62\00:23:49.12
I would really like that water."
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And, of course, as
the story continues,
00:23:51.49\00:23:53.86
this lady had had
many husbands, many.
00:23:53.90\00:23:56.53
She was pretty much a
lady of the town as it were.
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Her entire life was
immediately changed.
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And that's what happens
00:24:02.67\00:24:04.01
when that living
water flows into you.
00:24:04.04\00:24:07.08
There's a text, you know, I
carry my Bible with me a lot.
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I wanted to share this with you.
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John Chapter 7,
beginning in verse 37.
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"Jesus was there
at the temple now
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and they're
having their ceremonies,
00:24:18.25\00:24:19.59
and Jesus stood
and He cried, saying,
00:24:19.62\00:24:21.69
'If any man or
any woman, any person,
00:24:21.72\00:24:25.46
first, let him
come to Me and drink."
00:24:25.49\00:24:29.23
Jesus was offering
Himself as the living water,
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the one who would
change each and every person.
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"He that believes in Me,"
00:24:35.94\00:24:37.27
He says in verse 38,
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as the scripture said,
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"out of his belly show
flow rivers of living water."
00:24:41.24\00:24:45.58
What does that
mean, living water?
00:24:45.61\00:24:47.62
It means when we accept
Jesus Christ in our lives,
00:24:47.65\00:24:51.02
God flows out of our lives.
00:24:51.05\00:24:53.46
I was at the Dead Sea one
time and there at that Dead Sea,
00:24:53.49\00:24:56.86
everything's dead
00:24:56.89\00:24:58.23
because everything flows
in but nothing flows out.
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You see we've got to have,
when Jesus comes in our lives,
00:25:01.03\00:25:04.33
we've got to have
that water flow out too,
00:25:04.37\00:25:06.40
we've got to share with others,
we've got to go and share.
00:25:06.43\00:25:09.80
Yeah, that's
what a lot of the team
00:25:09.84\00:25:11.47
is doing here is sharing.
00:25:11.51\00:25:13.68
One more text I
want to close with.
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And this particular thought
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is found in
Revelation in Chapter 22.
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"And the Spirit says,
00:25:21.35\00:25:22.72
'Come, let him that
is first or thirsty,
00:25:22.75\00:25:26.42
come.
00:25:26.45\00:25:27.79
And whosoever will let him take
of the water of life freely."
00:25:27.82\00:25:32.99
There is no price.
00:25:33.03\00:25:34.60
There is no charge for this.
00:25:34.63\00:25:37.03
It's simply opening your heart.
00:25:37.07\00:25:38.77
It's simply
surrendering himself.
00:25:38.80\00:25:41.44
One of my favorite authors said,
00:25:41.47\00:25:43.00
"We don't even know how to pray,
00:25:43.04\00:25:44.67
but we can pray this prayer.
00:25:44.71\00:25:46.07
Please, Lord, take
my life, take my heart,
00:25:46.11\00:25:49.94
I can't give it."
00:25:49.98\00:25:51.85
But what it's doing
is giving God permission
00:25:51.88\00:25:54.82
to begin taking
control of our lives
00:25:54.85\00:25:57.35
that we might
begin walking with Him.
00:25:57.39\00:26:00.02
And, my friends,
when we walk with Him,
00:26:00.06\00:26:02.26
we will stand with Him
00:26:02.29\00:26:03.73
for eternity on that crystal sea
00:26:03.76\00:26:05.66
that had beautiful river.
00:26:05.69\00:26:08.20
You know, the Bible also records
00:26:08.23\00:26:10.03
that there's a river of life
00:26:10.07\00:26:11.40
that flows out of
the throne of God.
00:26:11.43\00:26:14.07
I want to be there.
00:26:14.10\00:26:15.44
I'd like to invite you
too to be there with me.
00:26:15.47\00:26:18.34
Partake of that beautiful
river flowing from Jesus Christ.
00:26:18.37\00:26:21.71
Our Canvasback
volunteers are bringing hope
00:26:27.28\00:26:30.65
to those who have no hope.
00:26:30.69\00:26:32.79
They are providing healing
to those who are in need.
00:26:32.82\00:26:36.52
Every volunteer takes
time from their busy schedules
00:26:36.56\00:26:39.56
to help others
for no pay at all.
00:26:39.59\00:26:42.50
That's right.
00:26:42.53\00:26:43.87
Our help is
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00:26:43.90\00:26:46.57
Surgeries that could
cost thousands of dollars
00:26:46.60\00:26:49.77
are performed for no pay.
00:26:49.80\00:26:51.77
We do it because we love
to see the smile on a person
00:26:51.81\00:26:55.88
who was once
blind and can now see.
00:26:55.91\00:26:59.45
As the Bible says, "The
blind see, the lame walk,
00:26:59.48\00:27:04.09
the deaf hear."
00:27:04.12\00:27:05.72
I have the wonderful opportunity
00:27:05.75\00:27:07.72
to see God's miracles of
healing on a regular basis.
00:27:07.76\00:27:11.69
If you would like to join us
00:27:11.73\00:27:13.29
in bringing healing
to those less fortunate,
00:27:13.33\00:27:16.16
please partner with us.
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I guarantee you that
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00:27:18.00\00:27:21.54
Thank you in advance.
00:27:21.57\00:27:25.04
To be a part of
this exciting ministry,
00:27:25.07\00:27:26.88
write us at Canvasback Missions
00:27:26.91\00:27:28.78
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00:27:28.81\00:27:31.31
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00:27:34.92\00:27:37.49
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00:27:37.52\00:27:42.02
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Please join us again
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Remember,
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Canvasback is making an
impact on hearts and lives,
00:27:47.90\00:27:50.53
one miracle at a time.
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