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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