Driving Miss Hallyah

Our first day in Rivne, we tagged along with Greg to help a blind elderly lady go to the hospital for a check up on her eyes. Though she is blind, her eyes still bother her. We arrived at the hospital and waited for over an hour with her waiting to be seen. She wasn't able to be seen that day, in fact she had to stay in a room there for THREE DAYS before she was seen! The hour we spent with her was very eye opening. This lady saw her husband brutally murdered by the communists right before her very eyes after only being married 2 weeks. She was soon thereafter shipped off to Siberia where she worked in a labor camp for 9 years! While she was there she was fed a daily ration of a cup of soup and 300 grams of bread. Her crime... she married her husband. His crime... he was an educated man. And you thought you had it rough! My heart goes out to this woman who through all her suffering has not become bitter with life.