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THE DENSELY CROWDED SCHEDULE OF EARLY 2003

WITH COMPETING TRAVEL SCHEDULES SUPERPOSED

 

 

From:        Glenn Geelhoed

To:          George Poehlman

Date:        8/27/02 8:11AM

Subject:     Fwd: You have photos from PhotoWorks

 

I hope that a few of the messages of my recent world wanderings have come through, and I may try to enclose a few of the most recent.

 

I have been thinking of Malawi.  I was listening to a special on AIDS widows and "Disposession" last night on NPR's "Market Place" made worse by the famine now talked about openly.

 

I have gathered up "stuff" including little items such as several hundred Lap Pads for Mister Tembo, and the precious Rocephin injectables which I carried completely around the world under the assumption that it would do more good in the menignitis of Malawi than the sniffles of the himalayas, so I returned with it to be packed along with me.

 

I am trying to put together a framework for my next year, and there are no "vaccuums" for which reason I wanted to carve out niches for both malawi and a chance to do something in either of the three venues suggested Australia, South Africa, or China for the youth leadership and counselling of premedical college students.

 

I have recrutied a couple of medical students and a former resident and vbery good friend of mine who is a superb general surgeon to come to Malawi.  I am trying to set up a Cambridge MD grand rounds (date as not yet fixed) for recruting this hospital to be a sponsoring organization to help the cause in Malawi, centering the presentation around an experience just participated in by PA student Keith Bair, cousin of my recommended surgeon's partner Bill Bair, whose surgeon father, now retired, is a friend of mine who encouraged them both. 

 

Whenever we can work on this presentation, I thought I would help Keith Bair tell what it meant to him and how he is changing careeer directions from a chemist over the last quarter century to a health care worker and his initial experience in the high Himalaya in June in Spiti.  If possible, I would like for all of us to rendezvous at this meeting which will probably be of the country club after dinner type

 

Meanwhile, I am looking at a very dense cluster of foreign travels which includes no fewer than eight trips to the Himalayas in the summer of 2003, (attached) so that I will want to see FIRST about the South African, Australian, or Chinese opportunity with Joan's organization before agreeeing to any or all of the Himalayan missions.  In addition I have two central American trips and missions to Mindanoa on the following schedule.

 

2003:

 

Friday Jan.3:

 Visits to my son Donald and family in Gainesville Florida, and then travel to Cumberland Island, Georgia for the annual Jan.6- - 8 hog hunt, staying at Nancy's Fancy.

 

Jan.10:Feb. 5:

Leyte Gulf, Tboli Land, and Malaybalay, Mindanao Southern Philippines, on a surgical mission in three venues for an intensive surgical schedule as has been the case for the last three years

 

Feb.  middle weeks, possibly directly from the Philippines

Medical Mission to Malawi- - to be determined with your schedule

 

Feb. 21--28:

Mexico cruise: Cancun, Chichen Itza, Uxmal, Kubak, Pulanque

 

Feb. 28--Mar. 7 

Belize, Honduras, Guatemala, and return through Cancun

 

Mar.

(See potential Dharamasala Himalayan mission , and others that follow, on attached schedule)

 

Mar 23

Second DC Marathon

 

April 18--22

AMAA meeting in Boston, Back Bay Hilton, and April 21 107th running of the Boston Marathon

 

May--June--July

There are events in this time frame I would like to try to participate in (eg. Steamboat Springs marathon in the first week of June or the Big Horn Ultra in the third week- - which I had to miss this year for the first time running)

 

Note the competing schedule of Himalayan trips posted below:  I am able to do one or the other of the South African or Australian trips as appropriate for the schedule and may bump the Himalayan trips which I have led over a dozen times already.  Let me know what schedule fits into this one:

 

 

Himalayan Health Exchange

 

 

 

Medical  Dental  Expeditions

2003 Schedule

 

 

Dharamsala:  Medical- Dental camp at Dharamsala (North India,) home to The

14th Dalai Lama and Tibetans in Exile.  March 29  April 13

 

Tibetan Settlements:  Tibetan Settlements of Ladakh in the Western

Trans- Himalayan region of North India. May 17 May 31

 

Spiti, Tibetan Borderland :   Ancient Tibetan kingdom of 'Guge' along

Indo- Tibetan Borderlands. June 5  June 23

 

Chang Thang Plateau, Tibetan Borderland (Ladakh): Medical- dental expedition

to Ladakh and Tso- Morari lake 15,000' on the Chang Thang Plateau along the

Indo- Tibetan border. July 17 - Aug. 4, 2003.

 

Lingshed:  Medical- Dental trek to a remote Tibetan village in Zanskar, Ladakh.

July 31 - August 23, 2003.

 

Lukla - Everest Base Camp:  Camp at Lukla followed by a trek to Kala Pathar

and Everest Base Camp 18,200'.  September 18  October 6, 2003

 

Kalim Pong - Sikkim:  Tibetan settlements of Eastern Himalayan Kingdom of

Sikkim. October 4  October 18, 2003.

 

 

For Details : e- mail: info@himalayanhealth.com URL www.himalayanhealth.com

Or Contact:  Ravi I Singh (404) 929- 9399

Dr. William Norton (912) 685- 5997, e- mail: nbnorton@pineland.net

 

I will not be able to "shoe horn" them all in, but want to start now to give them priority rankings on which can be accepted, and what will work.

 

Cheers!

 

GWG

 

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