Today we had the opportunity to watch an artist at work. As you know, Sivananda takes care of leprosy patients: medical care, surgeries, rehabilitation, all for free.
We got to watch two hand surgeries today. My descriptions will not do the surgeries justice (Dr. Beine is much better at it than I ever will be). But over the course of several hours, we saw a deformed hand get reshaped to something functional–tendons were exposed, cut, rerouted, and sutured to their new homes, all through incisions no more than a centimeter long.
Stop and look at your hand. Make a fist. Wiggle your fingers. Pick up a coin or a pencil. The hand is a remarkably complex appendage, and these docs are doing complicated surgeries on patients affected by leprosy so they can have a shot at a productive, meaningful life.
All this out of the goodness of their hearts.
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