Trauma Nursing on the Road to Mae Sot

When I was saying my farewells to my friends at Grossmont Hospital ER, the most common comment I received was, “You’re nursing skills will be so useful in Thailand.”  I would smile and nod, but deep down, I suspected that most of my nursing knowledge consisted in starting IVs and pushing meds.  Sure, there’s CPR,…

Goodbye Chiang Mai

We leave this morning for Mae Sot where we will be working with the Charis Project  Our time in Chiang Mai has gone by quickly but we’ve definitely made the most of it, acclimating to the culture, getting documentation started and seeing the sites around Chiang Mai. In my last post, I shared about the…

The Final Farewell

It has all come down to tonight.  Well, in the sense that our old life ends and new life begins tonight. Eight months of preparations, miminalizing our possessions, renting out the house, selling the van, lots of prayer, telling our story over and over and over… getting visas, passports, international drivers permits… starting and sustaining…