Around the World in 60 Hours

Had another evacuation recently, this time to my home country. Flew from Ho Chi Minh City to Denver Colorado with multiple transfers. Not fun when traveling with an immunocompromised (Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia) patient with myelosuppression from severe infectious dysentery and malaria. My patient was quite weak, but her hematological derangements put her at increased mortality while in Vietnam, and I did not want her to receive any more blood product tranfusions that the various Vietnamese physicians were recommending. She is a brave woman, to come to Vietnam for a vacation, given her chronic medical condition. Despite her newly worsened condition, she made it home safely.

I spent only 12 hours in Denver, before heading back home to Vietnam. It's a long flight, totalling about 17,632 miles (28,376 km) roundtrip. I never enjoyed the long flight from the USA to Vietnam, which feels like the exact opposite side of the earth. To perform the roundtrip in such a short span of time put my circadian rhythm into the twilight zone.