Another long trip for me.
I would be visiting to cities: Surabaya and Makassar.
The first city is Surabaya, Oct 22 to 24 where I’d help Susan for her GreenLight training at the hospital which bought GL laser.
Peter Robertson, AMS trainer from Australia, joined us. He was the one who gave the training to nurses and the surgeons.
On Oct 22 morning, we flew to Surabaya. I and Susan were in different flights. She accompanied Peter, flew on Garuda. I and Hansen flew on Batavia Airlines. Bad thing happened! The radio transmission was broken, they had to delay the flight. Can you imagine, our plan was ruined. The money for the trip was with me, while Susan must arrange everything there with only Irwan (our local rep.) supporting her. Hansen, our engineer, must be there to record the training and attend the training too.
I requested Batavia to find other flights or provided us a replacement plane. This was ridiculous. Finally, on 10.10 AM, we flew to Surabaya. Two hours behind original schedule.
On that day, we conducted training for nurses and presented laser safety and case movies to the surgeons. I acted as a translator to the nurses. Cool huh?
We had dinner with Peter in Bumbu Desa restaurant, served West Java cuisine.
On Oct 23, we had two live cases. We must wear goggle to protect our eyes.
It was an interesting experience. The O.R. was a bit hot due to the machine. On last March, I attended the the same training and live case in Singapore, and now it’s Indonesia’s turn! I’m proud of Susan.
Dinner was in Ria Galleria, Indonesian traditional food.
We rode the same taxi like yesterday.
After dinner, we took 1 hour rest and went to Peter’s place to study more about GreenLight.
It was quite embarrassing because I fell asleep. But Peter understood my condition.
I left to Jakarta the next day because I’ll go to Makassar with Arie, Olivia, and Tony for Annual Scientific Meeting of Indonesian Neurosurgeons.
Susan and Hansen stayed, they have one more case and a press conference.
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I stayed at the airport, waiting for the three of them. I was lucky because my flights from Surabaya and to Makassar were using Garuda Airlines. Woo hoo…..
We brought so many things for the exhibition. My luggage weighed 20 kg, and we had 67 kg overweight. Total overweight charge was around 1.4 million! We went to customer service and received around 50% reduction. Thank you Ma’m.
We were on the same plane with several neurosurgeons. When we arrived, the travel agent picked us up, but due to the baggages we brought, they changed the vehicle, from minibus, to a bus! There were only four of us, and two neurosurgeons with us. Some part of the road was being fixed.
We had dinner at Konro restaurant. After that, we checked out the venue. It was a small area. Our booth faced our microscope’s competitor. While at the far right, we have two aspirators’ competitors.
Tony let us store the stuffs in his room. I can’t imagine if he wasn’t here, then we have to carry the stuffs back and forth to our hotel across the venue. They are heavy things.
On the third day, I felt my vertigo recurrent after 2 years. I took a 3 hours break to sleep. After that, Tony treated us dinner at Black Canyon Coffee, at the mall next to venue.
The last day, Oct 27, was quiet. Only half day. Tony has flown back early morning. We had reflexology treatment, I had a snack, then we went to the beach. Spent our last night visiting interesting places and bought souvenirs.
My dirty laundry awaited me.
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