Overview
- Trinette Britt-Johnson arrived back in the Chicago area Saturday night and was honored at a Rich Township welcome event on Sunday.
- She became stranded in Montego Bay when Hurricane Melissa shut down air travel and local hospitals could not provide her post-transplant medication.
- Britt-Johnson went without doses for more than 24 hours and recalled an ambulance reading her blood pressure at roughly 217 over 100.
- Cook County Commissioner Kisha McCaskill worked with the U.S. State Department to locate the medicine, with a Jamaican doctor driving about 300 miles to obtain it.
- She is being observed at a Chicago hospital as officials and medical experts note Jamaica’s limited access to specific transplant drugs during disasters.