Happy Thanksgiving. Traditionally today, the U.S. observes when 400 years ago Native Americans shared a harvest feast with foreign colonists.Also today, our Dr. Suzanne is working at a Native American hospital on the Navajo Nation. Are we aware that most Native Americans recognize this day as a National Day Of Mourning? On the 4th of July, the US celebrates its independence. Today,
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With Ukrainian blood on her clothes, Dr. Suzanne was smiling. Returning to our farmhouse base from what was supposed to be another ultrasound training, Suzanne was put into action saving a badly wounded soldier. At a field hospital southeast of Kharkiv, she had the pleasure of teaching and donating another Butterfly ultrasound to Captain Morgan and his team (his
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Today, at least 440 fresh graves of mostly civilians were found in the city of Izium, a newly liberated city in eastern Ukraine. Two days ago, we were on the outskirts of this city teaching ultrasound to military doctors and sharing food, medicine, and water filters to the locals who haven’t seen freedom in almost 7 months.
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Hi friends, please say hello to our Ukrainian friend and Dr. Suzanne’s translator. Slava, can you introduce yourself to our friends? “Sure, my name is Myroslava or Slava for short. “Myr” meaning “peace”, and “Slava” meaning “glory”. I bet this name will be one of the most popular names for newborn girls when Ukraine wins the war:)
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Yá’át’ééh. Please meet Peshway and Emmy, our Navajo friends from Shiprock, Navajo Nation. Besides helping us deliver water filters to their community, they also run @nn.frp (Northern Navajo Farm Revitalization Project), where they “strive to revitalize farms on Dinétah through modern and traditional Diné methods.” It was a privilege to have a tour of their land as they explained the ancient
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A few weeks ago, snuck out into the 4 a.m. night an hour before the Ukrainian curfew was lifted and into the driver seat of an ambulance. Drove to a local hospital and picked up a patient and escorted him across the border into Poland onto a Medevac flight to Germany. The patient was a 24 year old Ukrainian soldier who had head injuries from a missile blast
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In the main hospital in Khmelnytski Ukraine, Dr. Suzanne is busy teaching the Butterfly Ultrasound. This week, she’s been training the eager local doctors all night, from 5:00 p.m. until curfew is lifted at 5:00 a.m. Just like last week’s day shift physicians, the current night shift doctors are full of excitement and questions. Just in case
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Looking out the window of a train that’s headed to Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, there’s many sunflowers glowing in the sun. Did you know that sunflowers are the Ukrainian national flower? Helen Keller once said, “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It’s what sunflowers do.” Another great woman, a patriotic Ukrainian recently had a great quote about
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You did it! Today we reached our original goal for this campaign titled Help Ukraine NOW! Thank you very much to all 53 of you who donated, and to the many more who’ve shared this fundraiser on line and word of mouth. This does NOT mean that we are finished raising funds for our Ukrainian
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Ukraine and A Ripple’s president Suzanne: “Tomorrow I am going to Ukraine. And I have been there before. I was 19 years old. I didn’t know anything…my college orchestra was going to Romania, Hungary and Ukraine. I had never been out of America, they told me to bring violin and play, so I did. We only had
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