Rich and Ronda Dolan

Thank you all so very much for all the prayers on my return to Cambodia.  It is quite an ordeal trying to time everything right. Foreigners have to have a negative COVID 19 test and arrive in Cambodia within 72 hours.  Since the flight is around 30 hours (and that is with short layovers), it is quite a trick to make it.  Since I had a return ticket, I decided to have my COVID test, get the results and then change my flight dates.  When I landed, I was at 71 hours. Also, since the flight from Atlanta to Seoul, Korea was operated by Korean Airlines, they checked my documents for COVID test, medical insurance, visas, etc. there.  That is nice because if there was some problem, I would have still be in the US.  Other that I have heard of have gotten to Korea and then had to pay to fly back to the US if there documents weren't right.  I did see a man that didn't make the flight to Phnom Penh because his COVID test was over 72 hours. The hardest part for me was having to load

Hi, friends: Guest blogger Rich here.  Several of you have asked about Ronda.  Here's where things are: In early April, we decided it would be best for her to go back to the US during the CO-VID 19 time.  If you remember, about a year and a half ago, she had surgery for breast cancer.  During that time, they removed several of her lymph nodes.  Because of that, there is an increased risk that a major infection or virus could be very dangerous for her.  There are a couple of good hospitals here. But, the government had required all those who have the virus to go to one of 3 government run hospitals. The standard of care there is just not very good.  One is named the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital.  Think Soviet hospital and you've got a good feel. She left Phnom Penh on April 6th, thinking she would be back in a month or so. A few weeks after she left, the government here put a ban on Americans and people from several European countries (but not China) entering Cambodia