Dear Editor,
I wish to express my thanks and gratitude to everyone responsible for giving my brother the opportunity to visit Cuba on the Miracle Mission to have his only eye looked after. This eye was injured while he was a soldier in the GDF in the Perai Battalion in 1984. He was on a Pepperpot training mission at the time. He lost the other to glaucoma, a disease that took the sight of several persons in my family.
My brother Colin can now see better in the affected eye after the intervention. He must continue with eye drops for the glaucoma for the rest of his life.
Thanks to the gifted Cuban doctors, the nurses and other staff who looked after us all and made us feel welcome. It was a wonderful healing experience.
It was so good to see them embrace, and greet one another and work in unity. We lived as one big, loving Guyanese family for the past 21 days visiting and enquiring about each other. It was sad to return leaving a few of our friends behind, but they had to continue with their treatment. They too will be home soon with improved vision.
Again, thank you all very much.
Yours faithfully,
Joy Proctor
