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DAST International selects another candidate

DAST International has selected it's second candidate to receive financial assistance with hip resurfacing surgery.  Colleen Hennessy is 49 years old and lives in Denver, Colorado, she recently returned from Honduras as a Peace Corps volunteer and has no health insurance.  She will be having he surgery with Dr. De Smet in Belgium on April 15, 2008.

Dr. De Smet and his staff from the ANCA-Clinic of the AMC-Gent are donating their services to perform one hip resurfacing surgery per year. Colleen will stay free at Hugo's Rehab Center "Villo Cento Passi"  http://www.villacentopassi.com/fla/index.html  while in Belgium. Smith & Nephew is also donating one (BHR) Birmingham Hip Resurfacing device per year.  The entire cost to the patient which will cover hospital stay etc. is only 3000 euros plus cost of airfare.  I want to thank Dr. DeSmet and Hugo for the incredible generosity in offering this to Colleen as our selected patient this year. 

A little about Colleen in her own words below. "My name is Colleen Hennessy.  I am 49 years old and a recently returned Peace Corps volunteer.  I was in Honduras for the last 27 months, living in a remote village in the cloud forest on a mountaintop.  In a place that rains nine months a year, the local children were ecstatic to work with me in establishing the town's first library and computer center.   

My hip has bothered me for some time now, but I have endured the pain because I have no health insurance and kept hoping that it would get better. I cannot walk any distance without pain in my lower back and hip.  I have very limited movement and little flexibility. 

Recently, I connected with the yahoo surface hippy group and what a wonderful resource!  It was there that I found out about DAST International. How grateful I am that organizations such as this exist!  I also appreciate all the stories and other information that people have posted on the "hippy" site and look forward to sharing my own!"  

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Why "DAST"?

According to a dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi and English, "dast" is the, "ability, power, means; aid, assistance; facility; dexterity, skill; acquisition, attainment."

It means: "To come to hand, to arrive; to be reached; to be obtained; to have in one's power, to be able."

It also means, "'Having healing in his hand,' an epithet of a physician who is successful in restoring his patients to health:--dast-talab, s.m. Begging; want:--dast-e-gaib, s.m. lit. 'The hidden hand'; a charm or incantation by means of which a hidden hand supplies one's healing.

Dast is ONE miraculous word that embodies hip resurfacing surgery, the return of the patient to his/her abilities through the skill of the surgeon, one's need for help, and the "healing hand" of the surgeon who performs the procedure! For us, it means "help ."