I’d never been there before. From the first to the last child we were to see together, like the fingers on a hand, or rather two hands. So much violence and so many abandoned, all these shortcomings, all these badly healed wounds, these tight “corsets”. Let things go, let things come, not want anything. Our Osteopathy was there, like a …
MY IMPRESSIONS AFTER THE ASSIGNMENT “Happy she who like Catherine has returned successful from her travels… !” What more can I say about this extraordinary experience on assignment with Docosteocam in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It led me on a twofold adventure, that of discovering the history of this country and its people, and that of a therapeutic journey, on the …
Two weeks far from home, from your family, from your day-to-day activity, from your culture. Two weeks out of your comfort zone. Two weeks forever engraved in my memory. Such a short lapse of time on the scale of a lifetime, and yet so rich, so intensely human, that it opens up perspectives you might seek throughout your whole life. …
The journey began just a few weeks before our departure for Cambodia, which was planned for February 21, 2020, in a context of uncertainty and doubt. People I knew, and the media, strongly advised against travelling to Asia because of the situation related to Covid-19. On top of this, my flight was cancelled just a few days before departure, with …
I remember that little girl in the Children’s Restaurant A game of hide-and-seek behind a white canvas I could just make out a hand and two feet Suddenly the curtain lifted The light shone onto her face We talked with our hands, And then with our expressions, Danith, the interpreter was never far if we needed him for words. …
You gave me your hands, carrying little white pieces of paper. Mine welcomed a fragment of life, over a moment’s encounter, and we travelled on together. On different time lines, always hoping for a better future. Of course, some eyes marked me more, some stories are engraved and I take heart in those that were most insignificant. Modesty and doubt …
February 28, 2020 We left Kep early in the morning for Takeo and the village of Sok San. Sok San is a centre for the disabled. Just like elsewhere the welcome was very warm. I noted that the centre was pleasant, open, equipped with balneotherapy facilities (a true luxury) and a physiotherapy area. There were real medical files. The first …
From February 21 until March 9, 2020 My action as a Paediatrician: How fortunate I have been to work in a team, to dialogue and to do good by pooling our knowledge for the good of the children. Of course, I saw pathologies that are sometimes non-existent in our western countries. Illnesses that are not treated due to lack of …
Moments that mark your life How can we accurately describe what we feel, those moments, those encounters, which leave an everlasting imprint in our heart and our mind? How can we explain the emotion that overcomes you with each placing of the hand, each treatment, each smile? Those smiles that can hide so much distress, but smiles that restore faith …
My second mission with DocOSTEOcam: back to Cambodia two years after a first epic journey that had helped me grow; that of a purely manual osteopathic journey, without words, beyond privileged Europe. Discoveries of new wonderful companions in this marvellous travelling troupe; new places for care, and a return to places I had already experienced. Evidence of this was immediately …
I have come home with a touch of nostalgia but above all with my heart filled with warmth and radiating happiness. I embrace all these beautiful sensations and emotions felt during this journey and pray that they will be indelible, continuing to spread this love, this sharing, this joy, this benevolence and this beauty. It was bigger and stronger than …
It’s difficult to find the right words to tell, to explain all I saw, smelt, learnt, heard, felt and experienced there… I have just come back from an incredible human and professional adventure about which I could write so many lines about the children, about the magical healing sessions I experienced – alone or in a group, about such an …
