Last Blog Entry

Hello all. It’s Sal. Although this is my very first blog entry, it will be the last entry of our trip. Wow, what a week! Tam and I are both exhausted as we have been up most of the last few nights assisting a member of our travel group who is very ill. Without going into too much detail, he is critically ill with food poisoning and has been in the hospital for the past three days. About 10 days ago, we believe he got food poisoning from eating at a restaurant near the East Market. Before receiving medical attention, he had experienced a wide range of bizarre symptoms, including paralysis of his left leg and arm, fever, night chills, dehydration, etc, etc…His family is currently trying to get him a Medical Evac to Germany. For all adoptive parents getting ready to travel to Kazakhstan, we would highly recommend travel insurance just to be safe.

As for Aliya, she has spent the last few days in the infirmary with a fever and upper respiratory bug. At the time of our visit this morning, her fever was gone and she was feeling much better. She was still coughing and sneezing, but overall more energetic than yesterday. We will get to visit her one last time before our preliminary court hearing.

As you all know, we will be making a total of three trips to Kaz so that we can bring Aliya home. And, as you all can imagine after seeing her pictures and hearing her laugh, she is worth as many trips as necessary to get her home. It’s going to be very difficult leaving her behind.

Tam and I will resume updating the blog sometime around December 24th, which is the day before our final court hearing. We can’t wait to get home to see everyone!