Flight with the sun at your back

THE experience we had coming home from Sunny California is one of many lessons and challenges. For to get out from one country to another continent, flying the sky over the sea and land is a common day occurrence now, which was considered a miracle generation ago. Let me share what happened and maybe others can learn from this experience.

We went to the IGO IIC 12 in Hawaii last August and stayed a week before we flew to the mainland. I went for a week to Virginia for the Asset based Community Development training in Virginia Theological Seminary before I flew to California, since my husband choose to be with family and not join me in Virginia that week. We spend some days in Los Angeles with the Kowalski family, before going home to San Diego. There we had a series of medical appointments which led to a stent implant in the left vein of my husband’s heart artery. That was the reason we were issued a medical notice that we can’t fly as scheduled last September 3. This notice was required by Japan airlines; however, the airlines also requires a doctor’s release that my husband was cleared for travel.

I had my doctor’s clearance last September 25 and was immediately faxed to Japan Airlines. And the process for clinching a flight started, with them verifying our names and airline tickets. We requested to fly on October 4, 2018. My husband’s medical clearance was only available October 2 after his cardiologist saw him, he must submit his findings to the main health provider which took time. From October 1 to 3, we were in constant contact with the airlines where documents were requested by the airlines, and I learned to send them through my cellphone and through Of-