Going home

8:30 p.m. Sunday: The Rotaplast team landed in San Francisco, or other cities around the US, a few hours ago. I stayed on in Guatemala to accompany Sulamita back home in the highlands. Dennis Bourassa, our independent filmmaker, Dr. Sibrand Schepel, the surgeon from The Netherlands who performed the miraculous work on Sulamita and I drove her and her father and aunt on the seven hour journey back home.

She had actually gone home following her surgery but returned Saturday for the post op clinic. This was no small effort. Sulamita and her family live about 45 minutes from the nearest town with a bus. They got up early enough to catch a 1:00 a.m. bus in the town for the six hour ride, in order to arrive for the clinic in Guatelmala City. Following the clinic, six of us crammed into Dennis´rented mini Chevy for the seven hour drive back home.

Needless to say, Sulamita, her father and aunt were pretty tired and slept a good part of the way back home. When we were close enough for Sulamita to recognize her part of the world, her faced brightened and she was back in her environment.

Please check back in the next few days and I´ll have some photos and an account of her world.