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- Hello and welcome
to Jesus For Asia Now.
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I'm Natalie Wood and today
we've got some neat stories
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of what God is
doing to help people
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with their health in Thailand.
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Welcome to the show Kerry.
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- Thank you.
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- Now, you have a
degree in, what is your degree,
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what were your studies?
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- I have a
Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
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that I got from
Southern Adventist University.
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- Okay, so when you got your
Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
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were you planning to
go to the mission field?
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- Yeah, at some point I
knew I would be going overseas.
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- Okay, and where
are you working now?
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- Right now I'm in Thailand,
in the jungles of Thailand,
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in the Mae Hong Son province.
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- Okay, and what
are you doing there?
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- I help run a lifestyle clinic.
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We do mostly natural remedies,
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actually we do
all natural remedies.
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And, we just provide a
place for people to come
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that we can try to
help them feel better.
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- Okay, so I know we
have a number of pictures
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to go through, so let's go
ahead and start with those.
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So what is this first picture?
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- [Kerry] This
first picture is of me
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helping out the
village that we live in,
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and we're at the harvesting.
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We just harvested some rice
and this we're pulling the rice.
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- Okay, a lot of work.
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- Yeah, but it's really fun.
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(Natalie laughs) I enjoy it.
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- That's good, that's good.
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Service is fun then?
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- Oh yeah, definitely.
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- [Natalie] Okay, all right
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and what is
this next picture of?
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- This is a picture of Grandma,
we call her Grandma Ruth
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and her granddaughter,
think it's her grandmother.
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And Grandma Ruth
is kinda the reason
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that we kind of all got started,
our clinic really started
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taking off, is because of her.
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And she has
end-stage renal disease,
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and when Lisa and
I first assessed her
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we weren't quite sure
exactly what was going on.
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So after we went to the
hospital and got test results,
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we knew what was going on,
and we formed a treatment plan,
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all natural, and we've
been taking care of her
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every single day since
then, and she's still alive.
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And she comes for
treatments every single day
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at our clinic.
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- Okay, so
end-state renal disease,
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can you explain
that in layman's terms,
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because I know I'm
not a medical person,
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and I'm sure we have
viewers that aren't also.
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- Yes, it's basically when
your kidneys are not functioning
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as well as they
should, and if it's end-stage
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it means that it's around
10%, so they're not filtering
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and processing like they should.
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- Okay.
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- But really bad, so
your kidneys are not...
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- Not working at
all. - Yeah, not working
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hardly at all.
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- Okay, so if she was here
in America, what would she be,
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how would she be being treated?
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- She would
probably receive dialysis
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probably a few times per week
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because she does have really,
really poor kidney function.
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- Okay, and I know they
wanted to do dialysis with her.
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But how far is
it to the hospital
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where she would
have the dialysis?
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- The dialysis
center, the only one they had
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was three hours, three to
five, maybe it was five hours,
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I think it was five
hours away in Mae Hong Son
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to the hospital over there.
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- One way? - Yes.
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- Wow, so she would
have to do that multiple
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times a week.
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- Yeah, which is not realistic.
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- Yeah, this
family has a motorbike?
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- They have a
motorbike and they do actually,
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one of the sons has
a truck, but still--
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- But it's still not realistic
for her to go that far.
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Okay, so what kind
of natural remedies
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did God impress you
to use for this lady?
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- We decided to do
our own kind of treatment,
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which was, we call
it charcoal dialysis.
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And so we do hot baths for
her and I put charcoal powder
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in it and she stays in
the bath for about 30 minutes,
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and we do, actually, two
treatments per day usually.
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And, it helps, it
basically does the job
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of what our kidneys
are doing is relieving,
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- To draw-- -
Excreting the toxins
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from her body.
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And we also give her,
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we gave her a lot of
lifestyle counseling,
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and she actually
became a complete vegetarian,
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and that helped a lot
in aiding her kidneys.
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- Hmm. - And so,
this is a picture
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of some villagers.
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I call the woman
in that picture is,
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I call her Angie with the baby,
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we so, refer to people
in the village like that.
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And I spend a lot
of time with them,
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and they've become,
we've gotten pretty close.
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I actually babysit
her daughter quite a bit,
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and she comes over to
the house, I make her food,
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I go to her house
and she makes me food,
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and then the
other two little girls
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are just some of the other
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little girls in
the village - Neighbor,
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Neighbor kids. - Yeah, yeah.
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- [Natalie] How nice.
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- Visiting, yeah.
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- So, are you
learning the language then?
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- I'm attempting
to learn the language.
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These are two women that
I went to another village,
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and I did a small
clinic in their village,
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and I don't
remember what they had,
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but they're holding
the herbs that I gave them
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to take, the
supplements I had them take.
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- Okay, so I know
that there are challenges
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with some of
the, you mentioned it
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with the
grandma, with lifestyle.
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- Mm-hmm. - What
are some of things
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that you see frequently
that if they could change this,
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or if they would change this,
it would help their health,
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like, right away?
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- Well, one of
the main things I see,
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is that the Karen like
to eat almost anything.
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And so, when I
got to their homes
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I see a lot of
what they eat, and it's,
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they eat anything
from snakes, rats,
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I've seen dung beetles.
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So they like a
vast array of foods,
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and so we really
try to encourage them
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to at least not eat
the snakes and rats,
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and definitely
they eat a lot of pork,
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that's one of their main things
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that they will eat for protein.
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And, so we really
encourage them to try to
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eat a little bit more healthy.
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- Yeah, it can be hard though
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because this is the
way they've grown up,
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and so they have
to think about it
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a completely different way,
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and they have to
incentive sometimes,
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like the
grandma. - Yes, it's true,
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it helped save her life.
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But we've seen that
some of the villagers
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actually start
to think about it.
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We've told her why she
shouldn't, we shouldn't
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be eating snakes and
rats, and then the next day
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she came and she was
like, she asked us, she said,
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"Is it okay, should I eat pork,
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"or should I
leave that out too?"
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And so they're
starting to think,
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and they see how we eat too.
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So being an example
has also helped a lot
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in being, helping
change their lifestyle.
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- Mm-hmm, now what
about drinking water,
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do they drink enough water?
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- No, they
hardly drink any water,
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and it gets really hot
and it's really humid there,
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and so we get a lot of
people who are dehydrated.
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And so we really try
to encourage them to drink
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lots of water,
because they're out working
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every single day.
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But, they, a lot of
the patients that I get,
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their problems are
caused by dehydration,
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and so we really,
really to push drinking water,
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but they don't
really like drinking water.
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And, I mean, I
understand a lot of people
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have a problem with that,
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but we really try
to encourage that.
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- Yeah, because then
you get bladder issues,
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and you get kidney issues, and--
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- Mm-hmm, all kinds of problems
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from not drinking enough water.
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- Wow, wow. -
The very basic thing
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that we just teach them
about drinking more water
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can benefit their health.
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- Mm-hmm, what about cleanliness
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in this area where you guys are?
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Is that a problem
among the villagers,
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or do they have
the basic understanding
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that soap is good.
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- From my observation I've seen
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that their hygiene it
really isn't the greatest.
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They have a lot of
dogs and cats running
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around everywhere,
especially where they eat.
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And so, I can see
that, I try to teach them.
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I mean, it's
really hard to teach them,
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because their
homes are all open,
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so of course stray,
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the dogs come in -
Anything can come in, yeah.
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- Yeah, so it's really dirty,
but I try to encourage them
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to clean up as much as
possible, after, you know,
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if the animals
have been in there.
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But I think they have
a basic understanding,
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in some ways they
do have their outhouses
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further from the house, which,
I've been in other countries
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and they don't even have
that, they just go anywhere,
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so I feel like the
Karen maybe have a little bit
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of a better grasp on that.
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But, for the most part,
I do try to encourage them
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to use soap.
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Some of them don't have soap,
so Lisa makes soap sometimes,
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and we will give it to the
patients who really need it.
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- Okay, so what
is this next picture?
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- This picture is of Mimi
and one our favorite aunties
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in the village.
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And, everyone loves
getting their blood pressure
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taken, they're
always like, "I want it."
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They want it, I'll take it.
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Any time I go to a house
and take their blood pressure,
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there's probably 15
to 20 people wanting it,
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'cause they're like,
"Do I have blood pressure?"
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(laughing)
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And of course they do.
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So, I was teaching Mimi,
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this is one of the
Sharon's daughters,
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and I taught her how
to take blood pressure,
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and do basic vital
signs, and basic assessment.
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And so, I was
letting her do it on auntie.
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- Okay. (laughs)
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- These are two other
aunties in the village.
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It's called Laiko,
which is about 45 minutes
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from our village that I live in.
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And, I did a
clinic at that home,
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and they were some of the
people that came, I think,
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the one on the left,
I gave her a massage,
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she has a lot of back
problems, and they give her,
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we have massage oil,
and I gave that to her,
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and gave her a massage.
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- That's nice.
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Warning, the next picture
is graphic, a little bit.
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So what are we
seeing in this picture?
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- This is a picture
of me removing a tumor
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from a grandma's wrist.
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It was actually her wrist.
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She came to us,
she'd been to the hospital
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multiple times for
getting the tumor checked out,
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but the hospitals tend
to not take as good care
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of the Karen.
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They give them
very subpar health care,
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and so she came to use
because she heard that people
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actually care about the
patients where we are at.
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And so she came and
she's just like, "I just need
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"something done, I need,
just help me if you can."
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And so, Lisa and I,
literally looking at it,
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and we just decided
we were gonna remove it.
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And so this is me in
the process of removing it.
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And, after I removed
it we sutured it back up,
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and everything is
great, she's fine.
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- It was a little
bit of an adventure
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though. - It was an adventure.
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I've never gotten nauseous.
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I don't think I
can ever remember
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in working as a
nurse or anything,
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and I worked in OR, I
worked in different places,
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but when I was
doing this I definitely
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got a little nauseous.
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I think it was a
little bit more than,
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it is definitely something
I've never done before.
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But she's really happy
that we care about her,
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and we wanted to see
her feeling better, so.
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- Good, all right, so
you're being challenged
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in your medical skills.
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- Yes. - And your training.
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- Very challenged.
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(Natalie laughs)
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But it's good, 'cause
I have to ask for wisdom
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all the time from
God, and He gives it, so.
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- All right and
then you get to see
00:13:06.18\00:13:08.02
the blessing of
how he heals people.
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- [Kerry] Yes.
00:13:09.95\00:13:11.29
- Even when, and I know
you've got a story to share.
00:13:11.29\00:13:13.05
But even when it's
like, how in the world
00:13:13.05\00:13:15.66
could this ever help?
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And then it helps.
00:13:16.89\00:13:18.36
But that story's coming. - Yes.
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- So what is this picture?
00:13:19.79\00:13:21.30
- Actually
probably talk about it here.
00:13:21.30\00:13:22.63
This is a group
of young people I met
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in the village of Laiko.
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One is, two of
them are Buddhist,
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and the one on my
right-- - The foreigner.
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- He's french, he's
with the Peace Corps,
00:13:33.91\00:13:38.91
and he is Catholic.
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And I met them all
in the village of Laiko,
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and we just decided,
you know, some young people.
00:13:44.99\00:13:48.89
The Karen girl on my left,
she speaks very good English.
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And I actually met
her, this is, we went to,
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on a really, really
nice hike in their village.
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And her name is Gitar,
and she was my translator
00:13:59.53\00:14:04.41
on the day that I
went, the grandma I removed
00:14:04.41\00:14:06.51
the tumor from, we sent her
home, but I wanted to make sure
00:14:06.51\00:14:10.45
that her sutures were healing,
00:14:10.45\00:14:12.55
and her skin was healing fine.
00:14:12.55\00:14:14.88
And so, I went to her home,
and we had a few more people
00:14:14.88\00:14:19.95
come in that
needed some medical help,
00:14:21.06\00:14:23.43
and this is a Pwo village,
and I am learning S'gaw Karen.
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And so, it was really
difficult to understand
00:14:31.60\00:14:35.27
because-- - It doesn't overlap
00:14:35.27\00:14:36.60
very well. - No,
and they don't know,
00:14:36.60\00:14:39.11
none of them really knew S'gaw,
00:14:39.11\00:14:41.24
at least in my Pwo village,
most of them know S'gaw,
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so we can communicate that way,
00:14:44.71\00:14:46.68
but in this village
they didn't even know S'gaw.
00:14:46.68\00:14:48.82
I knew, a
couple of words in Pwo.
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A patient came in,
or this auntie came in,
00:14:53.36\00:14:57.73
and her hand is stuck like this.
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And I was trying to examine it
00:15:01.03\00:15:02.90
and trying to figure
out what was wrong with it.
00:15:02.90\00:15:05.00
I didn't see any, I
didn't really see any scarring,
00:15:05.00\00:15:08.60
any wounds,
anything, but she says it,
00:15:08.60\00:15:11.67
I knew she said it
hurts a lot to even move it.
00:15:11.67\00:15:16.61
And so I was just
thinking and praying,
00:15:16.61\00:15:18.58
and I was just like, well
I don't know what happened,
00:15:18.58\00:15:22.85
but I was like,
Lord, I have no idea what,
00:15:22.85\00:15:26.55
what happened to her hand,
00:15:26.55\00:15:28.62
but I was just like,
it would be really helpful
00:15:28.62\00:15:30.23
if I had a translator.
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And that I could understand
what these people are saying,
00:15:31.83\00:15:34.56
and that I could help
them more effectively.
00:15:34.56\00:15:37.70
And after I prayed that prayer,
00:15:37.70\00:15:40.37
this girl, Gitar,
she walks in the door,
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and in perfect
English she says, "Hello."
00:15:42.64\00:15:45.41
And I just, I knew exactly
then that she could speak
00:15:45.41\00:15:48.34
enough English to help me,
00:15:48.34\00:15:52.48
which is really
rare to have a Karen,
00:15:52.48\00:15:55.65
especially a young woman, to
be able to translate so well.
00:15:55.65\00:16:00.76
But she'd gone to a
school north of Chiang Mai,
00:16:02.06\00:16:05.53
in Chiang Rai, and she
was just back for a break,
00:16:05.53\00:16:09.00
and she happened to know
that there was a foreigner
00:16:09.00\00:16:11.70
in her, one of
the villager's huts,
00:16:11.70\00:16:14.57
and so she just came to help.
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- Wow. - And it was definitely
00:16:15.40\00:16:17.01
a God send.
00:16:17.01\00:16:18.14
So she told me, she was
able to translate for me
00:16:18.14\00:16:20.91
that the lady
who's hand was messed up,
00:16:20.91\00:16:23.81
that she'd had a
fish hook caught in,
00:16:23.81\00:16:27.42
not like just the skin,
00:16:27.42\00:16:29.52
it was like the muscle.
00:16:29.52\00:16:31.12
- Between the muscles. - Yeah.
00:16:31.12\00:16:32.62
And, which obviously
with there being nerves,
00:16:32.62\00:16:35.99
and a lot of
tissue damage and whatnot.
00:16:35.99\00:16:39.13
And, so she had that
removed about two months ago.
00:16:39.13\00:16:44.17
But ever since then,
ever since it healed,
00:16:45.57\00:16:48.24
she has excruciating
pain whenever she moves it.
00:16:49.57\00:16:53.24
And she's, she's a
really hard worker,
00:16:53.24\00:16:55.51
she works in the rice fields,
00:16:55.51\00:16:56.81
and I can see how it would
make it difficult for her life.
00:16:56.81\00:17:01.78
- Right, with her hand stuck
00:17:02.58\00:17:03.55
in that position, - Yeah.
00:17:03.55\00:17:05.19
- or it's really super painful.
00:17:05.19\00:17:06.55
- Yeah, both
things, 'cause you know,
00:17:06.55\00:17:08.62
if you're using the
machete, or whatever it is,
00:17:08.62\00:17:12.03
cooking, it just
makes it really difficult.
00:17:12.03\00:17:15.13
And I was just
like, I don't, I mean.
00:17:15.13\00:17:16.90
So, I figured, I
think it's nerve damage,
00:17:16.90\00:17:21.20
that's basically
what I came up with.
00:17:21.20\00:17:24.17
And I was trying to
figure out how I could treat it.
00:17:24.17\00:17:27.91
And I only bring
a backpack with me
00:17:27.91\00:17:29.88
'cause I take my
motorbike, and so I don't have
00:17:29.88\00:17:32.11
a whole lot of supplies with me,
00:17:32.11\00:17:34.28
but I always have
charcoal, it's always my go-to.
00:17:34.28\00:17:38.59
And so I was just praying,
00:17:38.59\00:17:39.69
I was like, I don't
really have anything,
00:17:39.69\00:17:41.09
I mean like nerve pain is like,
00:17:41.09\00:17:43.76
and nerve damage,
sometimes it can get better,
00:17:43.76\00:17:47.13
but it takes a while,
and I just didn't know
00:17:47.13\00:17:50.63
really what could help
it, so I just was like,
00:17:50.63\00:17:52.87
well, I have charcoal.
00:17:52.87\00:17:54.37
And I was praying
and I was just like,
00:17:54.37\00:17:56.50
I'm just gonna use the charcoal,
00:17:56.50\00:17:57.81
I have no idea if it's
actually gonna do anything,
00:17:57.81\00:17:59.67
but it doesn't hurt to try.
00:17:59.67\00:18:01.78
So I had her heat up some water,
00:18:01.78\00:18:04.51
and it was fairly hot,
00:18:04.51\00:18:07.88
and I put some
charcoal in there,
00:18:07.88\00:18:10.62
and she puts her hand in.
00:18:10.62\00:18:12.45
And then, I was just
like, just, you know,
00:18:12.45\00:18:14.96
leave your hand in for
maybe 10 to 20 minutes,
00:18:14.96\00:18:17.43
just let it soak in there,
00:18:17.43\00:18:18.53
and about two minutes
later, she takes it out,
00:18:18.53\00:18:21.86
and she just starts
looking at her hand,
00:18:21.86\00:18:24.60
and then she starts
just moving it like this.
00:18:24.60\00:18:27.14
And I was like, I
just asked her, I was like,
00:18:27.14\00:18:30.11
"Does it hurt?", she's
like, "No, it doesn't hurt."
00:18:30.11\00:18:33.51
And I was like, "Are you sure?"
00:18:33.51\00:18:35.48
She's like,
"No, there's no pain.
00:18:35.48\00:18:37.58
"I can move it,
totally move it."
00:18:37.58\00:18:39.81
And I was just like,
"Great, I'm so glad!"
00:18:39.81\00:18:43.95
I didn't want to
act too surprised,
00:18:43.95\00:18:45.49
because I know God
can do those things,
00:18:45.49\00:18:47.59
and God can perform
miracles, and He is.
00:18:47.59\00:18:50.33
But I was just
really happy to see that
00:18:50.33\00:18:52.73
she was feeling better, and
her hand was totally functional.
00:18:52.73\00:18:56.43
- Yeah, in two minutes.
00:18:56.43\00:18:57.90
- Yeah, in two minutes.
00:18:57.90\00:18:59.10
- God's remedies. - Yes.
00:18:59.10\00:19:00.77
- Wow, well he
told you what to use
00:19:00.77\00:19:03.04
to help her. - Hm, he did.
00:19:03.04\00:19:04.77
- That's neat.
00:19:04.77\00:19:06.11
Okay, well wanna
tell another story now.
00:19:06.11\00:19:08.64
- Okay.
00:19:08.64\00:19:10.01
- And that's the story
of how God took care of you
00:19:10.01\00:19:12.18
and Mimi in the dark one night.
00:19:12.18\00:19:15.62
So, would you share with
us what was going on that day?
00:19:15.62\00:19:19.59
- Yes, about once a week
I will go to this village,
00:19:19.59\00:19:24.66
the Dookki, for
a medical clinic.
00:19:25.76\00:19:27.73
And, we usually had
been going on motorbikes,
00:19:27.73\00:19:31.30
but it was rainy season, so
I decided to take the truck,
00:19:31.30\00:19:35.04
which is a four-wheel-drive.
00:19:35.04\00:19:37.21
And Mimi
decided to come with me,
00:19:37.21\00:19:40.51
and Lisa just said, "Just
remember, there's no headlights.
00:19:40.51\00:19:45.25
"So just be back before dark."
00:19:45.25\00:19:47.68
And I was like,
"Okay, sure, no problem."
00:19:47.68\00:19:49.55
I left around early
afternoon or something.
00:19:49.55\00:19:53.96
I'm forgetting
that lots of people
00:19:53.96\00:19:57.96
like to come when
I do medical clinics,
00:19:57.96\00:20:00.43
and so I got there, and
there was a lot of patients,
00:20:00.43\00:20:05.47
a lot of people to see,
a lot of people to talk to.
00:20:06.87\00:20:09.34
And, right as I
was, we were about to go,
00:20:09.34\00:20:13.01
because we would have enough
time to get back before dark,
00:20:13.01\00:20:15.68
this man comes running, and
literally gets on his knees,
00:20:15.68\00:20:19.25
and starts begging
me to come see his wife,
00:20:19.25\00:20:23.12
'cause she's really sick.
00:20:23.12\00:20:25.29
And so, of course I
go, I wanna go help her,
00:20:25.29\00:20:28.52
and so I go see.
00:20:28.52\00:20:30.39
And we talk to her,
and I do an assessment,
00:20:30.39\00:20:32.56
and it takes a long time because
she has a lot of problems.
00:20:32.56\00:20:35.60
She has a lot of diseases.
00:20:35.60\00:20:39.17
Just trying to
know what to give her,
00:20:40.50\00:20:43.04
what I had, what
I could give her,
00:20:43.04\00:20:44.74
what I needed to bring,
and just things like that,
00:20:44.74\00:20:47.68
it took a really long time.
00:20:47.68\00:20:49.68
But, that's okay, we
left maybe 20 to 30 minutes
00:20:49.68\00:20:54.18
before it got dark, so I
thought, well, I'll just drive
00:20:55.75\00:21:00.12
a little faster.
00:21:00.12\00:21:01.19
And so, it was
starting to get dark,
00:21:02.79\00:21:06.49
and we made it to where
it goes to the dirt road
00:21:06.49\00:21:11.53
that's maybe two or
three miles from our house,
00:21:12.87\00:21:16.81
and then it was dark by the time
00:21:17.61\00:21:19.94
I was about a mile
and a half from the house.
00:21:21.08\00:21:24.51
We had no lights.
00:21:28.52\00:21:30.22
I actually gave
Mimi my phone to try to
00:21:30.22\00:21:32.79
shine it. - Shine some light.
00:21:33.76\00:21:35.02
- But there was no light.
00:21:35.02\00:21:36.99
So it was dark, and
there's like, it's really windy
00:21:36.99\00:21:41.96
on the way back,
especially after the dirt road,
00:21:41.96\00:21:44.23
you have a drop off on one side
00:21:44.23\00:21:47.84
that goes down into the valley,
00:21:47.84\00:21:49.30
and then you have
banks on the other side.
00:21:49.30\00:21:52.07
And I took a turn too sharply,
00:21:52.07\00:21:55.31
and I didn't really
know what was happening,
00:21:55.31\00:21:57.91
but I just felt the
truck turn to the left,
00:21:57.91\00:22:02.88
and I was at an
angle, but then it stopped,
00:22:03.99\00:22:07.02
and I didn't really
know exactly if, where I was,
00:22:07.02\00:22:11.23
so I was just
like, I'm gonna try
00:22:11.23\00:22:12.49
to drive forward, - Out.
00:22:12.49\00:22:15.13
- and out of this,
00:22:15.13\00:22:17.03
which as soon as
I pushed on the gas,
00:22:17.03\00:22:19.17
it started, almost rolling.
00:22:19.17\00:22:22.17
So I stopped, and Mimi
had already jumped out.
00:22:22.17\00:22:25.51
And so, I jumped
out, and I was kinda like,
00:22:26.64\00:22:29.28
almost just, we were
both holding our breaths
00:22:29.28\00:22:31.48
just waiting for it to
just roll down the mountain,
00:22:31.48\00:22:34.62
or down into the valley.
- Now when you jumped out,
00:22:34.62\00:22:37.12
it sounds like the
truck was, kind of level,
00:22:37.12\00:22:39.82
and you could just jump out,
00:22:39.82\00:22:40.96
but that's not what--
00:22:40.96\00:22:42.22
- No, I climbed out
the window, sorry, yeah.
00:22:42.22\00:22:44.13
- Yeah, you climbed out using
00:22:44.13\00:22:45.13
the center console or something.
00:22:45.13\00:22:48.20
- Yeah, I think so. -
Isn't that what you, anyway.
00:22:49.66\00:22:51.97
- Yeah, it was like,
00:22:51.97\00:22:53.44
it was really at an
angle. - At a steep angle.
00:22:53.44\00:22:55.37
- Yeah, and so I
climbed out the window.
00:22:55.37\00:22:57.24
But, in Thailand, the steering
wheel is on the right side,
00:22:57.24\00:23:01.11
and so I was
sitting on the right side,
00:23:01.11\00:23:03.71
and so it was actually easier--
00:23:03.71\00:23:05.11
- You were on the uphill side.
00:23:05.11\00:23:06.45
- Yeah, so it was a little
easier to get out from there.
00:23:06.45\00:23:09.18
But we both were just like
00:23:09.18\00:23:11.05
- What now? - really, yeah.
00:23:12.02\00:23:13.32
And Mimi was, she was
scared, and so I was just like,
00:23:13.32\00:23:17.26
"All right, Mimi,
you ready to run?"
00:23:17.26\00:23:19.73
And so, we ran, well I
guess she kinda jogged,
00:23:19.73\00:23:24.77
we ran all the
way back to the house,
00:23:25.90\00:23:27.30
which was only about a mile,
00:23:27.30\00:23:29.07
but I got Jason and
thankfully we had Travis' truck,
00:23:29.07\00:23:34.14
which is really, it's
a really powerful truck,
00:23:35.24\00:23:37.81
and we got cables, and
chains, and everything,
00:23:37.81\00:23:41.72
and as I was driving
back to where the truck
00:23:41.72\00:23:45.42
had almost gone off the edge,
00:23:45.42\00:23:47.09
I was just like, we
were going around the curves
00:23:47.09\00:23:51.06
and I was just
like, I don't see it.
00:23:51.06\00:23:53.26
I was like, I
really hope - Where is it?
00:23:53.26\00:23:55.06
- it didn't roll.
00:23:55.06\00:23:56.36
This whole time
I was just praying.
00:23:56.36\00:23:57.60
I was like, please
don't roll down the hill,
00:23:57.60\00:23:59.20
please don't roll down the hill.
00:23:59.20\00:24:00.84
And so we finally got
there, and it was still
00:24:00.84\00:24:03.74
in the same position. - Wow.
00:24:03.74\00:24:05.47
- And even
though, we had some light,
00:24:05.47\00:24:07.61
so we could kind
of see, but we were,
00:24:07.61\00:24:09.91
our first
priority was to tie it off.
00:24:09.91\00:24:12.25
So we tied it off to a
bunch of bamboo clumps,
00:24:12.25\00:24:15.15
and by the time we tied it off,
00:24:15.15\00:24:17.19
we were able to
see a little bit more
00:24:17.19\00:24:20.32
of where it was,
and it was definitely,
00:24:20.32\00:24:25.29
definitely not
supposed to be in that spot.
00:24:25.29\00:24:28.03
I know when I looked at it,
00:24:29.70\00:24:30.70
it looked like the tires were,
00:24:30.70\00:24:33.27
you could only see that maybe
one tire was on the ground,
00:24:33.27\00:24:36.44
and it was just amazing that
it hadn't rolled down the hill.
00:24:36.44\00:24:40.44
- [Natalie] Was
it caught on bushes,
00:24:40.44\00:24:41.94
- No. - or on the
trees or anything?
00:24:41.94\00:24:43.28
- [Kerry] No, when we looked,
there's absolutely nothing
00:24:43.28\00:24:46.31
that could stop it.
00:24:46.31\00:24:47.62
There's nothing that
could be in the way of it,
00:24:47.62\00:24:50.32
except for definitely God
00:24:50.32\00:24:52.32
and his angels, for sure. - Wow.
00:24:52.32\00:24:54.02
- And we got the truck tied off,
00:24:54.02\00:24:57.26
but Jason tried to do it in
the other truck that we had,
00:24:57.26\00:25:02.16
but we needed, we
actually got two trucks.
00:25:02.16\00:25:04.50
We went back and got
the head-woman's truck,
00:25:04.50\00:25:06.70
and it took two trucks,
00:25:06.70\00:25:09.60
including I actually had
to climb back in the truck.
00:25:09.60\00:25:14.08
That was actually scarier
than climbing out of the truck,
00:25:14.08\00:25:17.75
with no-- - 'Cause you had seen
00:25:17.75\00:25:19.11
where it was sitting,
00:25:19.11\00:25:20.32
- U-huh. - And
how it was sitting
00:25:20.32\00:25:21.82
by then. - Even
though it was tied off,
00:25:21.82\00:25:23.62
Jason's giving
me tips if it rolls,
00:25:23.62\00:25:28.12
and I'm just like,
prays. - Huh (laughs).
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- So I had to climb back in,
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and I'm like, I was
trying to help drive it out
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as they were pulling me out.
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So, with the three of us
working together it worked.
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It took a little
while but we got it out, so.
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- So, have you seen
your spiritual walk with God
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grow as you've been in Thailand?
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- Yes, definitely.
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- Has it been a
little bit of improvement,
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or a little bit closer,
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or what would you
say? - Hopefully a lot,
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I hope it's a lot.
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Before going to
Thailand I was definitely
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living a different life.
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I worked at the
hospital here in Chattanooga,
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just, I kind of stepped
away from the church in a way,
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and I, I was
definitely not living the life
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that I knew God
had called me to.
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When I was in high
school, when I was a senior,
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I went with my church
on a mission trip to Guyana
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in South America.
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And that's when I
really felt God's first call
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to overseas missions,
as well as to be a nurse.
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And so, I did go to
nursing school at Southern,
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and I always felt
this call, this just,
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I had to go to
the mission field,
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and I wanted to go.
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It was a passion of
mine, but after getting a job
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in a hospital, and just kind
of being out in the real world,
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and not really knowing
exactly how to handle that.
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Unfortunately a lot
of that started to die,
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and I became more like
the world, and I kind of
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stepped away from the
church for a little while.
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But, God never gives up on us,
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and He brought me back.
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And, one thing that
I'm really happy about
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is that He
brought me to Thailand,
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and when you're working for Him,
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it's really like the
most fulfilling thing,
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and nothing else can
ever compare to that.
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- I would like to invite you
to be a part of Kerry's project
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by praying for her, and if
you would like to get in touch,
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please contact us
at Jesus For Asia,
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PO Box 1221,
Collegedale, Tennessee, 37315.
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Call us at 423-413-7321,
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or visit our
website at Jesus4asia.org.
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May God richly bless you,
until we see you next time
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on Jesus For Asia Now.
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