Richard Feidler

So I was like kind of in my head, I probably wasn't, but in my head, I was kind of weaving and ducking and I'm worried that my head looked like a flare.

I did.

I made it.

I got the grab bag.

I got the underpants, got back to the safe room last and had to pound on the door for them to open because they'd locked it and everyone was like, how were you?

You know, it took far too long.

And I was like, I had to get these.

Many times.

It's very difficult.

And the cliche is that coming home is harder than being there.

Because when you're there, yes, it's a culture shock.

Yes, the medical conditions are quite overwhelming.

But you're busy and you've got a role and there's a team of you and you crack on with it.

And then you come home to this kind of quite, you know, zero gravity emotional environment.

And I remember I actually to steal or to borrow a phrase from another book written about MSF, the author called it new fridge syndrome.

What is that?

You come home and you catch up with old friends and then they're like, oh, you know, how was the trip?

And you're trying to sum up six months of the most overwhelming experience.

You don't want to over-egg it, but you're like, oh, you know, and we got evacuated and there was this gunfight and, oh, it's quite sad, you know, we had a few deaths.

Had to run from my underpants and the gunfire, that kind of thing, yeah.