Short clip of a mother who is crying after her son can see again!

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I want to share a short clip of a mother who is crying after her son can see again! She walks with him for many days from the jungle out to the hospital. Her son was totally blind in both eyes. We operated on only one eye as we do not have enough supplies to work on both eyes for him. We carry our supplies in suitcases so we need to spread the workout and give sight back to as many people as we can. With one eye seeing well now, he can go back to work. May be on another trip we will help him with the other eye. He woke up one day and went blind in both eyes. Nobody knew why. After the operation, he can see again. He walks by himself to the hospital director’s office to thanks the hospital for saving his eyesight. His mother cries tears of joy all morning watching her son walks again independently. The other patients applauded him as he walks out by himself! What a joyous morning in the hospital! God bless him! What a miracle to see him see so well one-day post-op!
This morning as I look up at the blue posting in the hospital hallway across from our operating room, it reads in Spanish that I translate as:
Live in such a way that those who know you but do not know God will get to know God because they know you!
We can’t take credit for all the work we do as at time miracles do happen on our mission trips and this is really one of them.
A totally blind man walks in the day before and walks out the next day seeing well enough to go back to work again!
⏩ Follow dr. Kondrot mission work at www.healingtheeye.com⏩ To support our work, if you are an Amazon customer, please go to amazon smile and choose β€œ Restore Vision Foundation”, in Zephyrhills, Florida, as your favorite charity. A percentage of your purchase will be donated from Amazon to support our mission work to cure blindness to the poor and abandoned around the world. Thank you for your support πŸ™ πŸ™πŸ™Spread the love for the poor in Ecuador!πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨ πŸ’›β€οΈπŸ§‘πŸ’š

Operating in the city closest to the sun in the world!

πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨ πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨Eye Surgical Mission Trip to Ecuador πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨ πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨The local highlander people that we treat in the Andes in Ecuador. They wear their traditional outfit. The hospital is at 9000 feet. But the mountain top here is Chimborazo, known as the highest mountain top above earth center. It is at 20,703 feet of altitude and that’s because it’s near the earth equator. It is very cold here for us coming from Florida. Being sea level folks, we had a hard time the first few days with headache and altitude sickness but we drank a lot of water and kept hydrated and we got over the altitude sickness and now we can work comfortably. It is so cold here at night and we often don’t have hot water to shower in the morning. But just a little discomfort, nothing major. Here are some pictures of the local people we treated in the hospital who came with eye problems. 
⏩ Follow dr. Kondrot mission work at www.healingtheeye.com⏩ To support our work, if you are an Amazon customer, please go to amazon smile and choose β€œ Restore Vision Foundation”, in Zephyrhills, Florida, like your favorite charity. A percentage of your purchase will be donated from Amazon to support our mission work to cure blindness to the poor and abandoned around the world. Thank you for your support πŸ™ πŸ™πŸ™Spread the love for the poor in Ecuador!πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨ πŸ’›β€οΈπŸ§‘πŸ’š

We are now above the clouds. The bus has a hard time climbing.

We reached 9000 feet of altitude. We are now above the clouds. The bus has a hard time climbing. 

We have to stop a few times to add water to the engine so it does not over heat. 

Finally the engine gives in and stops climbing. 

I am not sure what technically happened. Did we lose the transmission or whatever, but our bus is now only going backward downhill? It is not climbing anymore.Β 

We all get off the bus, cross the street to a safe place to stand and wait out for a solution. 

The hospital calls us and tell us they have a hospital full of patients waiting to be seen.

As we stand on the side of the street, a bus appears. The soldiers flag it down and tell them we need a ride to Guaranda. 

They agree to take us. So we load all our bags over to the new bus and complete our trek into the city of Guaranda. 

What a miracle!

⏩ To support our work, if you are an Amazon customer, please go to amazon smile and choose β€œ Restore Vision Foundation”, in Zephyrhills, Florida, as your favorite charity. A percentage of your purchase will be donated from Amazon  to support our mission work to cure blindness to the poor and abandoned around the world. Thank you for your support πŸ™ πŸ™πŸ™

Spread the love for the poor in  Ecuador !

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Stuck in the Mud! The trip almost canceled!

πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨ πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨Eye Surgical Mission Trip to Ecuador πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨ πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨ It has been raining for days in Florida. The ground has turned into a soaking wet pad of soft mud. Luckily we have a break in the weather. Though the dark clouds are looming overhead, the rain has stopped for a little while. We quickly load up all 500 pounds of supplies onto our truck to head out to the airport. We try to beat another downpour so we can keep our supplies dry from the rain. As soon as Dr. Kondrot starts the truck, the heavy truck bed loaded with supplies sinks deep into the soft mud!!! We are very worried about the in a coming rainstorm and also our flight departure time is coming up very quickly. We call AAA to the rescue. A tow truck will be there in one hour. We might not make it! The Lord is watching over us. We get a tow truck very fast. The nice driver gets me on the phone and asks β€œAre you at the church at the end of the street?”. I say β€œYes Sir, that’s us waiting at the church for you”. He says β€œI will be there in a few seconds!” We are saved and off we go. On-time departure for Ecuador. All is well! This morning as we try our best to beat the storm, making it to the airport on time, make sure we don’t forget our custom paperwork for the supplies, make sure we don’t forget anything for the surgical mission, we are under a lot of stress yet deep down I know we will be ok. As we drive out, I receive this text from our pastor friend who sends us off with a prayer: There’s no better place than being in the center of God’s will. It’s filled with peace, joy, and overwhelming security that God has prepared something way better than what you have for yourself. It’s so true. Thank you to all our friends and family who pray for us. Continue to keep us in your prayers as we begin another 2 weeks doing God’s work bringing sight to the blind in Ecuador.

⏩ To support our work, if you are an Amazon customer, please go to amazon smile and choose β€œ Restore Vision Foundation”, in Zephyrhills, Florida, like your favorite charity. A percentage of your purchase will be donated from Amazon to support our mission work to cure blindness to the poor and abandoned around the world.

Thank you for your support πŸ™ πŸ™πŸ™ Spread the love for the poor in Ecuador! πŸ§‘πŸ’šβ€οΈπŸ’› πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨

Packing for Ecuador Mission

πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨ πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨Eye Surgical Mission Trip to Ecuador πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨ πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨ Packing up for a trip is always a big challenge: we need to make sure we have all the surgical instruments. Then all the supplies. All the post-op eye drops. All the medicine for surgeries. All the drapes and blades. Then lenses. All in all, we are packing close to 500 pounds of supplies for our trip for 2 weeks! Here is Dr. Kondrot going over the last check-up to make sure all the packing is correct and that we are not missing anything for our trip! ⏩ To support our work, if you are an Amazon customer, please go to amazon smile and choose β€œ Restore Vision Foundation”, in Zephyrhills, Florida, like your favorite charity. A percentage of your purchase will be donated from Amazon to support our mission work to cure blindness to the poor and abandoned around the world. Thank you for your support πŸ™ πŸ™πŸ™ Spread the love for the poor in Ecuador! πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨

Jamaica Eye Mission

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We had a very successful mission in Jamaica completing 100 cataract operations and training 4 surgeons in the MSICS (Manual Small Incision Cataract) technique. The people of Jamaica are wonderful. We love Jamaica!
www.Missiontocureblindness.com

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To all the fathers, step-fathers, grand-fathers, soon-to-be fathers, wanna-be fathers, and fathers at heart: we wish you a wonderful day, full of joy, love and happiness. We thank you for all that you are and all that you have done for your children.

You are the most special man in your children’s life.

My very own father is now in heaven.

So on this special day, I would like to give a big shout out to the most special father on the earth:Β  Dr. Edward Kondrot.Β  A wonderful father to his own sons and step-sons and to so many more children around the world that he has worked tirelessly to restore their eye-sight on his mission trips. He is truly a good example of what a good man and a great father look like.

A father like you is truly a gift from God and I give thanks for the blessing of you in our lives.

Happy Father Day!

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Jamaica Mission Trip. Blind in both eyes now reading the eye chart to the last line!

πŸ’₯πŸ’₯πŸŒˆπŸŒˆπŸ‘πŸ‘ πŸ‡―πŸ‡²Here is Miss Dawn, the last patient of the trip. We took out a hard dense catarock (they call those white cataract β€œcatarock” in Jamaica). Dr Kondrot says on a scale of 1 to 10, this cataract is an 18 for density and size! It is huge!

Right after her eye patch is taken off she says she sees everything so bright! Yes! We are happy for her. Of course she says the other eye, every thing is very dark! She still has another dense white cataract in there. She has light perception only the day before, now she reads the whole eye chart so fast all by herself!

She makes the whole trip worth while for us. We are so happy for her.

Next time we come back we can do the other eye for her!

Hurray for Miss Dawn! We give back her eyesight and transform her life. We bring hope back to many patients on this trip. To see again is to be free again to live a better life for many Jamaicans! They have waited so long for an eye doctor to come help them!

Follow us as we report to you from Jamaica.

Check out Dr Kondrot’s Mission work at www.healingtheeye.com

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Become a Humanitarian Eye Surgeon

Tell your eye doctor! Opportunities to become a humanitarian eye surgeon.

Restore Vision Foundation presents a basic course to learn the essentials to master (MSICS) manual small incision cataract surgery. This is a low tech eye procedure enabling eye surgeons to get excellent results with cataract surgeryΒ  in a 3rd world country.

Click here for more information.

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We also needΒ  Optometrists, Opticians and Nurses to help!