AT THE LAST MINUTE AND FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW,
HAROLYN JOHNSON CANCELS THE
Dear Dr Geelhoed,
I actually received a call from Ms Johnson about cancelling her flight. I advised her that it is refundable since she has not used her ticket at all. I have advised her to send me an email as we need something in writing that she is indeed requesting that her reservations be cancelled. I have also asked her to send me back the ticket (via DHL or Fedex to avoid it getting lost) so that we can process the refund. There is however a $50 cancellation fee. The remaining value of her ticket will be credited back to your credit card.
I am just awaiting her email and will process the refund as soon as I have the ticket. I hope I answered your question. If you need anything else, do let me know.
Regards,
Yael
On Thu,
>Greetings Yael!
>
>I am in the last minute scrambles of the
"ground rush" that always
>seems to precede takeoff, in getting all
things coordinated as long
>ago as I had done so, there still seem to be
glitches that appear.
>
>Now it appears that the students and residents did
not carry all the
>medical materials that I had packed up for them,
and a number of
>boxes were urgently requested from the
field, now added to the
>stack of things I am presumed to add to my
overloaded baggage. Two
>of these are in the Dean's office where
Harolyn Johnson was
>supposed to have forwarded them to Kevin
Bergman before his
>takeoff, but apparently they were not.
>
>But, now, I just received a satellite phone call
from George
>Poehlman (ironically hearing more on that
side of the world than I
>had here) on the field asking for still more
stuff with the
>startling news to me that perhaps Harolyn
Johnson would not be
>coming!
>
>I have tried to find her and learn what this
means, but what are the
>implications if this two-years-planned trip for
her does not take
>place? The first problem I had was
with the medicines she was
>booked to carry, but then I am worried about
the ticketing, since I
>am the one stuck for the financing of her
ticket.
>
>I have spoken with Virginia who is hung up in
transit by two
>canceled flights, so she will be arriving
late tonight with the
>extra suitcases we had planned to leave in
>capacity they might give for added stuff.
>
>But, now this last minute glitch with Harolyn has
me really worried,
>since there is no way I can forfeit a ticket
to this long-planned
>event.
>
>What do you advise?
>
>GWG
>
>>>>Glenn Geelhoed
>
>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
>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
>
>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
>please wait for Kevin and Amy to arrive
(they will be
>coming from a safari in
>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)
>