Electronic Newsletter: OCTOBER 2022 ANNUAL GALA EDITION

Operation Walk Annual Gala! International Food, Fashion, Live Music & Dancing. Buy tickets on line at operationwalk.org or call (424) 558-8076. Table of Contents Annual Gala, October 22, Buy tickets online. Raffle Prizes Operation Walk plans to return to Africa in 2023 Recipe: Hungarian Breakfast Cake. Meet Physical Therapist, Vivienne Uytana

Buy your Gala tickets now Annual Operation Walk Gala Our 2022 Annual Gala is fast approaching. The party starts at 5pm at Annandale Golf Club in Pasadena, California. Invitations have been sent and we are looking forward to seeing all of you. Get ready to enjoy international fashion, international foods, dance to live music, and possibly win fabulous raffle prizes! The annual gala allows us to continue the mission of Operation Walk: to provide Free hip and knee replacements to the most deserving patients around the world. Please contact Ava@operationwalk.org for questions or sponsorship opportunities.

A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO RAFFLE DONORS:  Sam Ward Reon Roski @ Majestic Realty Cami & Charlie Ward Richard Link  Marilyn Dorr  Lisa Fujimoto-Yamaguchi, P.A.   Pradeep John Kumar, M.D.

Next Mission Tanzania, Africa 2023

Photos: Operation Walk Africa 2012. Arusha, Tanzania. The great people of Africa need us, and we need your help to get our team there. Please keep Dr. Dorr's vision alive. In 2023, Operation Walk Los Angeles plans to return to Arusha, Tanzania. After 10 years, Operation Walk will send a team of surgeons, doctors, nurses, physical therapists, and volunteers to help approximately 50 Tanzanians walk again, pain free, and free of charge thanks to your generosity. Our volunteer team is preparing to take unpaid time off, or use vacation time, & travel at their own expense over 9,773 miles to help those in need. We do have the Dream Team, but we need your help. Please donate today.

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It's fall time, Heat the oven! Hungarian Breakfast Cake 100% delicious By: Ava Baldwin, Administrative Coordinator

Need the perfect cake to serve for brunch? Kids coming home for the holidays? Hungarian Breakfast cake is delicious and easy-peasy to make. Ingredients: 1 box YELLOW cake mix (not Lemon)- prepare according to instructions set aside ( Do NOT bake). 1C. crushed graham crackers- I use a mallet. 1C. brown sugar 1 tsp. cinnamon 1C chopped walnuts. 1 1/2 sticks of melted butter PREPARATION: Pre heat oven according to yellow cake mix instructions In one bowl, prepare cake mix according to instructions, set aside. In separate bowl, mix dry ingredients: graham crackers, brown sugar, cinnamon, walnuts, and after blend with melted butter until all moist. Coat bottom of pan with cooking spray or butter. Spread thin layer of cake batter to coat. Then crumble the graham cracker mixture on top. Spread another thin layer of cake batter. (use it all). Then crumble the last of graham cracker mixture. Bake according to cake batter instructions. When finished, Check center with toothpick, should come out clean. Cool then cut into bite sized squares. Enjoy. Serve with tea, coffee, or milk. So yummy. If you have a simple, tried and true holiday recipe, please send to: Ava@operationwalk.org. If you've tried one of our recipes, let us know how you like it.

SHINING BRIGHTLY is "SUNSHINE VIV" MEET OPERATION WALK PHYSICAL THERAPIST, VIVIENNE UYTANA, DPT

By: Vivienne Uytana

It was a crisp clear day, deep blue skies over glistening snow as I flew down the hill, lying across a black inner tube. Suddenly, I found myself sailing through the air, hit a rock and rolled to a stop. My left arm was tucked underneath me, in what I now know was a good protection position, and great pain radiated from my shoulder. Humeral neck fracture. Thus, was my introduction to physical therapy. As I went through the fracture rehab journey as a patient, I could see myself practicing as a physical therapist, it spoke to my core desire to help others. Fast forward about 15 years, while at work, my ears prick up when I hear my colleague's patient mention that he has volunteered on a "medical mission" involving joint replacements in third world countries, helping those who cannot afford such surgeries. I roll my office chair to the doorway and ask how can I do that? From him, I obtained Jeri's email address and to my query, she replied several weeks later that I send her my passport info. I was a bit taken aback as I did not know her or much about OpWalk at the time. By then it was October and I came across info for the annual Gala two days before the Gala and was able to get a ticket. As I sat there and watched the OpWalk teams and supporters, the excited and happy faces, the slide show, heard Dr. Dorr speak, I got hooked. I came so close to bidding on the volunteer spot that was being auctioned off, but I told myself to be patient. I introduced myself to Jeri, found out what I needed to do and submitted all my info. And then I waited over a year before I got called up for OpWalk Honduras in 2016. I suppose the most memorable is the first OpWalk experience because it has so many firsts! Seeing what the doctors do on the pre-op side in determining the surgery they will do, being in the OR observing the surgeries, the screening process and hearing the patients' stories, some traveling up to 9 hours by bus to get to the OpWalk site hospital, learning how debilitating their arthritis or injury had made their lives, the lack of access to emergency surgery that we take for granted back home, it all was such an eye opening and heart opening experience. It was the perspective shift I needed as I did not realize how jaded I had become dealing with the bureaucracy of the healthcare system back home. In my leisure time, I plan trips to take. I'm an avid traveler and have been to all the continents. I try to scuba dive at least once a year. I'll do the occasional hike. I do enjoy baking. I tweak recipes to reduce the amount of sugar, but still be flavorful, alter them to make them a tad healthier or what I think tastes best. I love to bake for family, friends and coworkers. It's nice that they are open to trying my experiments. I have them vote on which variation they liked best and that's what goes into the recipe archive.

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