The Tsunami update 
I am alive and well and so are the family, thank you all for asking. I volunteered (I am a nurse remember) at Phuket International Hospital from the first day of the disaster until presently. There was a BBC1 documentary crew following me for the first week and the documentary they made can be seen by following this link then select 'latest program' Please do not stop coming to Phuket, most commercial areas and beaches are nearly back to normal and we need your tourist income desperately. My business is in tatters and the only way to help is to come here.

The site will be back to normal when I can bring myself to think about the world before the recent events, it all seems so trivial now.
Below is Eulogy that I read out at the Phuket International Hospital Memorial Service

Eulogy for the Phuket International Hospital, Phuket, 2005.

We have been the victims and witnesses to one of the worst natural catastrophes, mankind has suffered in modern times.

We are changed forever, our innocence is lost and now we have the unwelcome knowledge of exactly how fragile we are.

This service is intended to offer both thanks and comfort for those who have so generously given their time, resources and efforts.

Some of us were compelled to do this because we had the obvious skills, specifically doctors and nurses.

But hundreds and perhaps thousands of people from every walk of life stood up to be counted and all of them found something to do.

And this must be how such tragedies are always solved, not by one big idea or one big intervention, but millions of small actions that add up, to the answer.

As some of us return to our other lives, we may come across people, perhaps even loved ones, who will not understand what we have seen, they may question our motives, our decisions or simply say the wrong thing.

We must be kind to them and we must cherish them, for they still have the innocence we have lost forever.

We are compelled to survive and eventually thrive again, it is not up to us. Our losses are tragic and the pain is at times unbearable, however, we will all feel this bad, less often and this is the nature of our own recovery.

We must not feel guilty as we re engage in the trivia of daily life, for we, have the chance to do so.
Those we have lost, do not.

Out of respect for them, we should all, regardless of which faith we hold, resolve to define the rest of our lives by exhibiting the limitless generosity of spirit, love and compassion that we have found residing in all our hearts this week.

We also owe them a promise this day to make the rest of our lives a beautiful and noble example to all.


Trevor M Fisher, Phuket, 2005.