*sigh*

[rm]

Just talked to Patty in Oman.

She's still sick. It sounds like your basic, but totally horrible flu but she's pretty much sleeping most of the time, and the doctors there sound good, but I can't say I like this one bit. She'll be fine, but I am worried.

Oh yes and the three letters and a postcard she sent? None have arrived yet.

But hey, 4 weeks.

6.5 to go.

Comments

[mme-furiosa.livejournal.com]

Ouch. Sorry to hear that. All of the mail I sent from Oman took about 6 weeks to reach the states, if it got there at all. Some of it never arrived.

Very weirdly, I dreamed about you last night, that you were moving into a marvelous house with me and mine, and that Patty was going to Europe on a long dig. Strange, no?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Totally strange.

Thanks for the heads up about the Oman mail -- we can stop taking it personally! I am in awe that it takes so long, since it was never more than two weeks from Syria which was significantly less developed according to Patty's descriptions.

[merchimerch.livejournal.com]

Mail that I sent while I was doing fieldwork in Uzbekistan regularly took 4 weeks to get to its destination, and I was living in the capital. If Patty is in a remote site, I can imagine that post might take even longer.

[rm.livejournal.com]

We're just so surprised, because her remote site in Cyprus it never too k more than a week, and Syria it was usually only about 2 weeks. We've been waiting on some of this stuff for over three weeks now. On the other hand, I guess I shouldn't be surprised, as there is no way for her to get mail there.

[nisaa.livejournal.com]

Mercury Retrograde ends tomorrow. Those are my 2 cents. Hopefully your letters from Patty will arrive soon.

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

Mercury Retrograde ends tomorrow.

OH THANK GOD(S).

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Good health to her!

[wcg.livejournal.com]

I hope she starts to feel better soon, I know how troubling it is to be half a world away from someone you love when they're ill.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Epic hugs.

As you say, this too shall pass, but it's a rough time to be going through. Sympathies.

[hyrkanian.livejournal.com]

Poor dear. :( Sucks when they're sick and you're not there to pamper them. :( Feel-better-soon vibes going her way.

As for another international mail experience for you... We mailed post cards home from China the day after we arrived in Shanghai. We returned to the States a month later. Two or three weeks later we received the postcard we'd sent to our own address, for my mom and dad who were house sitting for us.