5 Years Battling 3 Foot Worms in Pakistan

..that's a helluva bar story..one of my contractors mentioned that he had been stationed in Pakistan for 5 years as the executive director of Carter's Global 2000 Health Care Program to end Guinea Worm Disease (Dracunculiasis) in the country. I asked where he had been stationed and apparently him and a group of doctors traveled from village to village ultimately eradicting GWD..from Pakistan and later the most of the Asian continent. I guess the thing that kind of struck me was I was just calling this guy up to negotiate an agreement and out of the blue he's got these crazy, random stories of personnel being kidnapped in Balochistan and ending up in Bin-Laden terrorist camps (1990s), pulling 3 foot worms from people's legs, living side by side w/ the Maoists in Nepal and...lunch outside my building, on a cool but pleasant day.


People like that inspire.