FOR DEPARTURE AND LILONGWE
PICKUP OF KEVIN
From: Glenn Geelhoed
To: George Poehlman; internet:ccpahealth@malawi.net; Internet:fdimmock@malawi.net; laurzdiehl@yahoo.com; mcgill@africa‑online.net; msdhtj
Date: 4/24/03 8:06AM
Subject: Fwd: Kevin Bergman in Lilongwe
I received a satellite call from George regarding three urgent needs, and have had to re‑pack accordingly.
1) With respect to the first request, I am packing thousands of dollars in suture material that should be more than enough to replenish the request for additional absorbable synthetic suture.
2) I had hundreds of 7 1/2 gloves which I had forwarded through Kevin Bergman and Amy Hayes and John Sutter and the two pediatric residents. I had packed them with more stuff than I heard later they had carried, so some of those items may still be in their apartments, or has been dropped off in other places like Ekwandeni, for which I have packed at least one pulse oximeter to be taking later in my stay. I also have some of the other equipment Doug requested, but there is no way I can carry as luggage some of the items requested, such as x‑ray view boxes. That will bring me to the pont of the discussions previously entered about the Presbyterian Church support for a one‑way container purchase and shipment form my end with the other mountain of supplies.
3) I was dismayed to return form the Boston Marathon and discover two large boxes in the Dean's Office addressed to my name through Harolyn Johnson, which were the drugs you had ordered, (Metformin and others) and which were Airborne forwarded to be picked up by Kevin Bergman before his departure. If these drugs are also to be carried by me‑‑already over committed in the baggage I had packed -- this means I will have to drop out other things I have packed, and quite a number are drugs also, which would mean that they would expire before their useful life could include Malawi. I will see what Harolyn has from my stock of materials to also be carried, and perhaps we can tie these two boxes together as one.
Virginia arrives today with two suitcases which will remain behind, and I hope to use some of their capacity to carry some of the materials I have in excess, but a few of the textbooks and gifts I had secured may be too heavy to go as accompanied baggage, which I was at such pains to coordinate for everyone's luggage before the scattered departures, with still much left here to be transported.
I have not yet spoken to Harolyn regarding getting to Dulles Airport, but she is holding the same nonrefundable non‑changeable ticket I had purchased for each of the three of us coming in on the BA Lilongwe flight, with what appears to be a longer wait in Lilongwe Airport to not only see you, but also pick up Kevin upon his return from holiday.
I will see you all soon, and hope to get full reports as one group enters and the other departs.
Cheers!
GWG
I received the note you see attached, that we are to remain in Lilongwe to return with Kevin Bergman as Amy and he are returning from a Zambian holiday, and Amy goes back with you on the BA flight that is carrying us in this weekend.
Unless I hear other urgent breaking news, I will sign off with this email and take wing, with the "last wave" heading "Into Africa."
Cheers!
GWG
>>> Laurie Diehl <laurzdiehl@yahoo.com> 04/24/03 01:52AM >>>
Hello,
This is a message indirectly form Kevin Bergman and
Amy Hayes. When you arrive in Lilongwe on Sunday,
please wait for Kevin and Amy to arrive (they will be
coming from a safari in Zambia with Land and Lakes) so
Kevin can go back to Embangweni with you. I am not
sure when they will arrive, maybe around 3 ni teh
afternoon (or 4). THANK YOU‑ otehrwise, Kevin will be
stuck in LLW with no ride to Embangweni.
Thanks,
Laurie Diehl (traveling companion to Kevin and Amy)