Saturday Oct 24th Report # 6
Our morning was taken up with transferring boxes to the Meeting room from Vadym’s home. There are about 75 boxes but we only took 35 over at one time so that the ladies can sort them out.
We also fixed another light in the room and installed a ceramic wall heater that may or may not help heat the room.
We were invited to Marika’s mother’s apartment for a late lunch and spent a nice time with her mother and her husband. Uri is a lovely man who is in the fourth stage cancer. He doesn’t know it because over here they don’t tell the patient, only the relatives.
He has multiple surgeries and is slated for another one. They told us that things in the hospital are so bad, we could hardly believe it. The elevator was not working to the top floor operating room and so Uri had to get some of his friends to carry him up the stairs. Reminds us of the man in mark 2 with his 4 friends. While he was in surgery, Marika was sent to buy some medication. Not once but 4 times!
Medications alone cost 4,500 R ($555US $608C)and an MRI cost 1700R. ($239 Cdn) . Altogether with doctors costs etc they have had to borrow over 6,000R. These figures may seem insignificant but to these people it is horrendous. When pensioners get just over $100US a month, it doesn’t leave much to live on or for emergencies.
We came home and got ready for Sunday meeting.
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