Guestblogging for Stacey.....Thanks to S (who got the early morning call from Stacey & Dan) for relaying the info to me about their day.
Stacey and Dan met the newbie today!! She is absolutely gorgeous! The newbie has also followed the example of her two big sisters -- she barfed on Stacey about 2 or 3 times almost immediately. Clearly, she fits in with the family.
The newbie was visibly dehydrated when they met her at the care center, so Stacey and Dan insisted on taking her to the hospital for fluids. They got a little bit of resistance from the staff and they might have offended the doctor at the care center. Once they got some fluids into her at the hospital, the newbie perked up a bit, cried some tears and peed in Stacey's lap (which was a good sign, because in her dehydrated state she wasn't making either tears or urine). Stacey was able to feed the newbie some Pedialyte and she was able to keep that down. Luckily, they changed some money before they left the Sheraton in the morning. They had to pay the hospital in cash -- about US $25.00.
Stacey sounded happy but exhausted. She's already gone through a whole bottle of Purell today. (If you know Stacey, you know about her pathological fear of vomit.) They missed all of their orientation and touring today while they were at the hospital with the newbie. She thinks that this might have freaked out their travel group members a bit. But the others in the travel group are lovely and have been very friendly and supportive.
They are able to receive text messages, but the Ethiopian government has blocked outgoing texts.
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Hooray for first meetings, despite hospital visits! So far you're paralleling our story pretty well. Dinkeneh had massive quantities of vomit when we met him, and we spent our first full day together at the hospital in Ethiopia. Oh, joy. :) Hopefully things will look up from here, and you can enjoy the rest of the trip!
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