Where in the World is Eric?

This has been the popular question for the past week both here through the site and on my facebook as I seemed in both places to fall into abrupt inactivity. Let me fill you in.

After the amazing rally in N.Y. on the 16th, We spent a LONG day in the van struggling to keep our little van train together (and our kids alive) on the spaghetti highways back to D.C (Baltimore actually). However there was way too much to be done for any educational field trips the next day!

Instead we got the arduous half-day task of trying to get everything to fit back into their original suitcases along with the extra diapers, car magnets and whatever else we picked up along the way while my amazing father-in-law Dennis Mckay headed back to DC to return the other van. While Dennis cabbed it back to the BWI airport, Rebecca and I  took the hotel shuttle with our 5 daughters, 14 bags, 3 carseats, and 2 strollers… 3 hours early!

By the time the night was over, we had left Dennis behind in Houston (In a fluke of misunderstanding, the attendant at the desk booked him to Victoria Texas instead of Victoria, BC Canada) and we had been driven from the airport in Seattle to Bremerton, Washington (2 hours out of the way) instead of Burlington, Washington in a linguistic misunderstanding between Rebecca and our East Indian shuttle driver.

By 4:00 in the morning we finally made our way to bed at the right destination!

I know you’re thinking this is great and entertaining, but still wondering where we are. This is where the levity ends and things get serious.

Upon arriving in Canada, we set to work getting Emma Jane the tests we need to find out what’s happening as well as get the tests to find out to what extent I’ve injured my right foot. Not long after getting here, Emma had another seizure. When I say that, it conjures up images, but let me tell you why it’s even more distressing than it sounds.

These are not regular seizures.

These are episodes where she falls limp as though dead, her eyes roll back in her head, she stops breathing, her lips go blue, and her face goes pale. It seems as though she dies for a minute before coming back to animation all confused and disoriented. It breaks our heart to see and wonder what’s next, but we are so grateful for the competent pediatricians and neurologists here in Canada who will help us get it sorted out.

I WANT IT UNDERSTOOD that this is NOT the end of the run!

We are committed to finishing the next half and need as much faith, prayers and support as ever to keep moving forward in spite of postponement of continuation.  When we know more about our next start date and so forth, we’ll post it here.

If you can help us leap forward in getting press, funding, or any other of the millions of things we need to get human trafficking in the public spotlight, please email me through my contact form.

Thanks to all of you who have helped us reach so much success this far. Keep spreading the word of this cause and help Stop Child Trafficking Now!