Hello Fellow Travelers!
I was truly inspired this week by the New York Times story on Dr. Ian Crozier. Dr. Crozier bravely treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone where he contracted the deadly virus. After coming back to the US, he was treated and eventually released and declared "Ebola Free". When one of his previously blue eyes changed to green, opthamologists decided to take a closer look. The virus had permeated his eyeball and was hanging out (or "lurking") in his eye. You want to know how they discovered it? Ask me! Ask me!
Ooh! I thought you'd never ask! They re-discovered the virus by sticking a big needle into his eyeball! Eeuuww! Yowsa! And sure enough, there it was! (The left eye changing color would be all the heads up I would need!) The Ebola virus, was "lurking" in his eye!
Dr. Crozier is much braver than I. He's braver than most people I can think of. To willingly expose your hale and hearty self to deadly diseases because you "want to help" is selfless beyond measure! So for this guy, who only wanted to help people, to get reinfected on his eyeball, seems grossly unjust, to say the least. Dr. Crozier took his healing to the war. Not the other way around. He got on a plane, and traveled to one of the most dangerous places in the world! To help people! At great bodily risk to himself. Then he had to concern himself with a virus so toxic it can grow in eye tissue!
Oh come on! Talk about "No good deed going unpunished", the man just wanted to save some lives, and he's not even asking to get paid! So how is he rewarded? He becomes reexposed, recleared, then reinfected and finally released. And he had to relearn how to do basic movements, like walking, like I do. You know how difficult it is to relearn to tie your shoes? Let alone walk? Really difficult!
This is where I can relate. When you can't walk or speak things like eye color and material possessions don't mean very much. If one or both of my eyes changed color, I would find it vaguely interesting as in "Gee, look at that, imagine!", and then I'd move on. Dr. Crozier's eye changed color but he was too busy relearning to walk to pay much attention.
On his eyeball! That's so "Alien"!
Like I've said before, I'll take inspiration anywhere I can find it! Sierra Leone, kitten videos, whatever, I'm not choosy!
I was truly inspired this week by the New York Times story on Dr. Ian Crozier. Dr. Crozier bravely treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone where he contracted the deadly virus. After coming back to the US, he was treated and eventually released and declared "Ebola Free". When one of his previously blue eyes changed to green, opthamologists decided to take a closer look. The virus had permeated his eyeball and was hanging out (or "lurking") in his eye. You want to know how they discovered it? Ask me! Ask me!
Ooh! I thought you'd never ask! They re-discovered the virus by sticking a big needle into his eyeball! Eeuuww! Yowsa! And sure enough, there it was! (The left eye changing color would be all the heads up I would need!) The Ebola virus, was "lurking" in his eye!
Dr. Crozier is much braver than I. He's braver than most people I can think of. To willingly expose your hale and hearty self to deadly diseases because you "want to help" is selfless beyond measure! So for this guy, who only wanted to help people, to get reinfected on his eyeball, seems grossly unjust, to say the least. Dr. Crozier took his healing to the war. Not the other way around. He got on a plane, and traveled to one of the most dangerous places in the world! To help people! At great bodily risk to himself. Then he had to concern himself with a virus so toxic it can grow in eye tissue!
Oh come on! Talk about "No good deed going unpunished", the man just wanted to save some lives, and he's not even asking to get paid! So how is he rewarded? He becomes reexposed, recleared, then reinfected and finally released. And he had to relearn how to do basic movements, like walking, like I do. You know how difficult it is to relearn to tie your shoes? Let alone walk? Really difficult!
This is where I can relate. When you can't walk or speak things like eye color and material possessions don't mean very much. If one or both of my eyes changed color, I would find it vaguely interesting as in "Gee, look at that, imagine!", and then I'd move on. Dr. Crozier's eye changed color but he was too busy relearning to walk to pay much attention.
On his eyeball! That's so "Alien"!
Like I've said before, I'll take inspiration anywhere I can find it! Sierra Leone, kitten videos, whatever, I'm not choosy!
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