After three or four Denton flights that arrived in July-August, my instrument and cartridges for testing for chlamydia and gonorrhea were still missing. However, everything from the Operation Ukraine warehouse in Mississippi had shipped and the cargo should have arrived in Port-au-Prince on one of these Denton flights (see posts 07-21, 07-23 and 07-27). The only explanation that I could think of was that my cargo had gotten mixed up with Kathy’s shipments and that it was somewhere in their warehouse in Haiti. Meanwhile, I left Haiti on July 30 and returned to Bethesda. After a quick two days with my lab, I headed to France on August 3 with my daughter to join my other daughter and son for our annual summer vacation with my late wife’s parents and sister.
I sent out emails from France to Kathy and Meer with a description of my cargo, the number of boxes, dimensions, and weight. While I waited anxiously 7000 km away in St. Jean de Monts, Kathy’s volunteers searched through the warehouse in Arcahaie, Haiti. On August 8, I received the email from Kathy: “Praise the Lord and thank goodness for a mission team that restacked all the boxes in the warehouse!” They found my cargo. I sent a quick email to Meer and asked him to contact Kathy to coordinate picking up the shipment. Four days later, Meer emailed me to report that he had my cargo safely in the lab at Christianville. However, not all the boxes were accounted for. The important piece, the test instrument, was there. So were the boxes of test cartridges. But the laptop computer needed to run the instrument was missing. I emailed Kathy and Meer to ask them to check again for the box with the laptop. That was three days ago. I’m still waiting to hear if they have found it. I think Kathy is back in the U.S. so I don’t know who might be at their warehouse in Haiti that we can contact. I fly back to the U.S. tomorrow.
Stay tuned.
