Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Leaving for Haiti

Leaving for Haiti

Haiti Family Initiative Program

Jacmel, Haiti


Wednesday, July 3, 2013- I leave for Haiti today.  I am traveling with Lynn Shipira and her daughter, Maya, a freshman in high school.  We are flying down a few days early to get our summer program ready for the first group of volunteers.

I am up and moving by 4:00AM to get to the airport in time for my 6:30AM flight to Miami and then we are off to Port au Prince.  From there we will meet Max and some of the other translators who will take us by van to Jacmel.  It will be at least a three-hour ride to our final destination. This will be a tough travel day.

But I am sick.  I have been throwing up all night.  I think I am having a reaction to my typhoid medicine.  I don’t think I can travel and I am worried about leaving the USA and going to Haiti where medical services are minimal at best.  I am weak and it is an effort to stand.  I just want to curl up somewhere and sleep. I don’t want to go to Haiti today.


But I do go to the airport anyway.  It is a strenuous effort to get through the security check.  But I make through all of the checkpoints and then run to a restroom. I throw up again and again and again.  I am afraid I am going to have to wait another day to travel. But with what was to be my final incident of illness, I feel this poison leaving my body and then I am well again.  I can stand up straight. My head and thoughts are clear again and now I am hungry. I am now ready to go to Haiti.

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