Mass. mom and son stranded in Center East are again residence – NBC Boston
Stacey Schuhwerk spent 10 sleepless nights listening to sirens, watching missiles being intercepted and questioning how she’d ever get residence. Tonight, the Massachusetts mom is lastly residence.
We first spoke to her nearly per week in the past when she was nonetheless attempting to get out of Doha. Tonight, she’s lastly residence. However she stated getting right here was a determined and harmful journey.
Stacey Schuhwerk is lastly again on U.S. soil.
“Welcome residence! Can I give anyone a hug?”
It is second she wasn’t positive she’d ever see.
“I’ve tried for 10 days to simply be sturdy and simply get by it.”
A layover in Doha, Qatar, grew to become a weeklong lockdown, with the Hingham mom and her son watching missiles as they have been intercepted exterior their lodge window.
When it grew to become clear they could not get a flight out of Doha, they employed a personal automobile to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
“It was form of a little bit little bit of a scary journey,” Schuhwerk stated. “We weren’t positive it was secure.”
They spent 16 hours within the Riyadh airport once they realized one thing was incorrect.
“At 2:15, my son was monitoring the incoming airplane and he simply stated to me, ‘We’re in hassle.'”
There have been missiles, planes diverting, and the air house was being shut down.
“We have been flying Virgin and so they canceled all flights into and out of the area for the following two weeks,” Schuhwerk stated.
However then, assist arrived.
“A whole lot of issues got here collectively proper on the similar time. We thought one thing, somebody above us helps.”
That assist lastly got here from evacuees from the U.S. Embassy in Bahrain.
“Their ask was do not inform anyone, so we could not inform our households that we have been secure.”
They went again to Washington, D.C., with the group. However the worry stayed with them.
“I do not ever need to hear a siren once more,” Schuhwerk stated.
Via all of it, she stated her son was her lifeline.
“I’ve by no means been extra pleased with my son,” she stated. “He confirmed me power that I simply did not know he was able to.”
Schuhwerk tells us she’s nonetheless processing the whole lot that occurred. However tonight, lastly, she’s residence, secure and holding onto the second she’s waited 10 very lengthy days for.
