Nate and Laura Jennison!
The main reason I packed up Salome and myself and headed to the other side of the world is that my dear friend Laura got married. MARRIED. I could go on and on about how great it was to see her wed Nate Jennison. It was amazing to see God's hand on them both.
Here are some highlights of my trip.
The plane ride there:
I had just gotten the baby to sleep about four hours into the twelve hour flight. Finally decided to put on my headphones and watch a movie! When the lady sitting right next to me across the aisle starts to freak out. Turns out her daughter was having a serious allergic reaction the the bread United served on the flight. Her faces, hand and whole body was swelling up. So the Mom starts demanding the captain turn the whole plane around (we were right over Russia and headed towards Alaska). About ten flight attendants swarm around her. Start yelling at her to calm down! The paged for a Doctor to help. But the only medical professional on board was a Chinese nurse. And the flight attendants ask to see her medical license before she can start to help.
At this point I am freaking out!First for this woman's daughter as she was looking pretty scary. Also I do not want to land in Russia! I got people to see and places to go in America! Well, the Chinese nurse was of no help. As the United Doctor they called (via Satellite phone) could not understand the Chinese nurse . So a very nice flight attendant takes over and basically decides the girl (age 2) needs an epi pin. Well, the Mom refuses to give the epi pin. As she is scared about side effects (like heart problems it can cause). So Mom still wants to turn the plane around. Flight attendants saying NO and to use epi pin.
Finally they just give her a huge doge of Benadryl and she goes to sleep. Which was kind of dangerous as she could stop breathing! But Mom seemed better and by the end of the flight the kid was fine!
I was pretty shaken up by this (as were all the Flight attendants) and did not sleep at all the rest of the flight. But Salome slept right through it! I was very impressed by the United Flight Attendants at the end of all of this. They kept the Mom from really going nuts and kept the daughter safe.
My Parents house:
SO nice to be in my Iowa home. We pretty much just hung out, saw family and ate good food. Thanks Mom and Dad! And Dan the dog :
Holy Cow!! I would have been spazzing out and bawling all at once, how scary! Awesome the flight attendants handled it so well. Yikes!
ReplyDeleteMy question would be what was in the roll that her daughter never had in the past and her mom did not know about it! I would demand the recipe to see what was wrong with my child. Weird. We had some friends that flew on a plane and the attendants had to duct tape a man's arms, legs, and mouth because he became a danger to the people on the plane. They could have duct taped the lady down.:)
ReplyDeleteWow. You are one brave Mamma-way to go. And, your Mom and Dad look great (and so do you)!!
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