Yesterday Panormitis and Hetty went to see the photo exibition called: "Wild Wonders of Europe".

We all think that we have to leave Europe to be able to experience breath-taking wilderness, but Europe offers a great number of wild animals and untouched nature. In the past decades much has been done to safe them. And it works, as 43 top photographers show us in this exibition. The exibition is developed in the spirit of the international bio-diversity year.

As you all know Panormitis is a pretty good photographer himself, so he knows how difficult it is to make a good photo, to choose the right moment to catch the right light.

We could see he really enjoyed it.

There were 100 magnificant pictures, in a beautiful outdoor setting in the town Den Haag.

I ad one example, Dalmation Pelican ofcourse taken in Greece. And the Matterhorn in Switserland

Dalmatian pelican - Pelecanus crispus - GREECE/LAKE KERKINI, MACEDONIA

At 16 kilos and with a 3 metre wing span, the Dalmatian pelican is, together with the great bustard and the mute swan, a competitor for the title "The World's Heaviest Flying Bird". All three species live in Europe. The Dalmatian pelican has made a very successful comeback in the last 30 years, thanks mainly to nature protection measures. Now it is quickly becoming a very valuable nature tourism asset. Lake Kerkini is one of the most productive fish waters in Europe, and supports as well as a vibrant fishery industry also tens of thousands of pairs of breeding cormorants, herons, spoonbills, grebes and pelicans. In 2009 an EU-financed cleanup campaign removed decades of plastic and other garbage from the lake. Can we make a difference? Yes, we can! Nature conservation works!

Today a 3 room apartment is rented for 3 months, so that Panormitis and Hetty can have there own place for a while. It has a fully equiped kitchen. There is room for the girls and if family and friends want to come over from Greece they are welcome to.

To all of our dutch friends we would like to ask for things to furnace the place. We allready have a bed, couch, table and chairs, if you have anything that can be useful, please mail me freek@vermolen.org

Today Panormitis and Hetty went to Amsterdam VUMC hospital. This is the most specialised hospital in Holland for this kind of illness.

Panormitis will be going into the hospital on june the 3rd and be operated on june 4th.

The operation is the first part of the treatment, the docters will get as much of the braintumor out as possible.

Than after the operation panormitis will stay in the hospital for 4 to 5 days. And may go home for another 2 weeks to get better from the operation.

After that the docters will start the 2nd part of the treatment, which is radiation, this is to kill tumorcells that could not be taken out during the operation. The radiation is every day for 6 weeks.

Than after that Panormitis will get chemo-pills. This is the 3rd part of the treatment.

So all together it will take approx. 3 months. With a lot of visits to the VUMC. So if anyone has suggestions to live closer to the hospital, please let me know.

Αυτό το κείμενο είναι αυτόματη μετάφραση από τα ολλανδικά να
Ελληνικά.
Πανορμίτης Hetty και προσγειώθηκε στην Ολλανδία είναι καλή. Τρίτη
25 Μαΐου πάνε στο νοσοκομείο για μια σύντομη έρευνα
Την Παρασκευή, 4 Μαΐου και είναι Πανορμίτης χειρουργική επέμβαση.

23rd may 2010

Panormitis and Hetty arrived in Holland today. They are going to stay in our oldest sister and her husbands house ( Astrid en Bert ). After they rested a little bit, we went to the beach to see the sun sink into the see. ( sunset).

Tomorrow is a holiday in Holland, and so we will do something nice, maybe go to the keukenhof. ( see picture ).

Panormitis really wants to take some pictures himself and send them to his friends and family in Patmos and elsewhere in Greece.

vrijdag 21 mei 2010

Panormitis is fit to fly, will come this week-end. appointment in the Amsterdam VU hospital has been scheduled for this coming tuesday may 25th and operation on june 4th.

Bij Panormitis is de druk in zijn hoofd gemeten en hij kan vliegen.

Zij komen al dit pinksterweek-end, want dinsdag morgen is er al een afspraak voor een intake gesprek in het VU te Amsterdam.

Dan is er ook al een datum geprikt voor de operatie op 4 juni, dat is vandaag precies over 2 weken.

Vanmiddag ga ik een huis bezichtigen in Rijswijk, Steenvoordelaan, op 800 meter van een NS station, en 600 meter van een groot winkelcentrum ( in de Boogaard ). 10 minuten lopen naar de trein en 40 minuten reizen naar VU Amsterdam.

Zusjes, Astrid, Gineke, Hetty en broers Freek en Henk op 15 minuten rijden in de buurt.

woensdag 19 mei 2010.

We komen in een stroomversnelling.

Zorgverzekeraar heeft positief geantwoord. En er is contact met neurochirurgie van het VU te Amsterdam. Hetty is nu druk bezig zo snel mogelijk naar Nederland te komen. Het VU is al aan het kijken wanneer de operatie gepland kan worden. Enige ongewisse is nog of Panormitis kan vliegen. Dit hangt af van de druk in zijn hoofd, en dat kan door een arts via zijn ogen gemeten worden. Dat gebeurt morgen. Is dat ok dan kan het best zijn dat zij al dit weekend komen.

Voorwaarde om verzekerd te zijn is wel dat zij hier moeten wonen en ingeschreven staan bij de gemeente.

Als er in Amsterdam behandeld wordt is het zaak om niet te ver daar vandaan te gaan huisvesten.

Om op zo kort termijn ergens een huis te huren, moet dit in de vrije sector. Er moet huur vooruit betaald worden, het huis moet bewoonbaar zijn en ingericht. En dat allemaal in een heel korte tijd.

Hierbij zullen we allemaal een steentje bij kunnen dragen.

Mail me maar als je ideeën hebt.

freek@vermolen.org of info@freekvermolen.nl