Home From Bangladesh

     Claire is back home in Chicago.

    From January 3 until this past Sunday January 28 my daughter Claire was in  Bangladesh,

...working at a medical clinic in the Rohingya refugee camp located in Cox's Bazar, a Bangladeshi city on the border of Myanmar, across which over 900,00 Rohingya refugees have fled. (see posts from 1/3/2018, 1/ 4/2018, 1/5/2018 and 1/14/2018).

     Claire worked as a MedGlobal nurse alongside other medical volunteers from around the world,

...as well as with the Bangladeshi medical personnel who worked at the camps.

     I Facebook chatted with her around noon on Sunday afternoon Ohio time, which was 11 pm Bangladeshi time. She was in the airport in Dhaka - about six hours into the almost 30-hour trip from Cox's Bazar to Chicago - waiting for her next flight, to Dubai.  She looked and sounded tired.
      I told her she'd be busy when she returned to her job at Northwestern with the flu epidemic.
      "Ah, the flu," she sighed. "There's diphtheria at the camp."
      I asked her if she was glad or sad to be leaving Cox's Bazar.
     "Sad," she said, "so sad."  She told me she'd have stayed longer if only she'd have planned in advance. But on the other hand she had a job, and a life to get back to.

   She rubbed her eyes. "But there's so much work to do there."

    Many thanks for all your prayers and good wishes.

"Equal and Opposite Reactions"
          By Patti Liszkay
Check it out at the Columbus Metropolitan Library
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