“Wow, I don’t want to miss this conversation, this could be the last time I see them if I get sick,” he recalled thinking about his wife and three children.
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Stafford, his family and LaRochelle all received experimental monoclonal antibodies to reduce their chance of death, given this Ebola strain’s high fatality rate.
He would return to the Congo if given the chance.
While waiting to see if he tests positive for Ebola in Prague, he speaks via WhatsApp and videoconferencing with his fellow physician missionary, Peter Stafford, who is “doing a lot better” in Berlin after testing positive for Ebola this month.
“The two times, perhaps, that I’ve been most proud to be an American in the last 10 years have been when I’ve been evacuated,” Patrick LaRochelle told me. “What hurts is knowing that that is not available to the vast majority of people, and certainly not to my friends in Congo.”
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The Christian missionary said "you see this amazing mix of fear and courage and hopelessness and beauty and ugliness.”
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