I just got in to my little hotel in Mexico at 2am.  The airline lost my luggage.  Ay, caramba! 

When I reported it at the airport the airline's clerk was rude to me.  I was tired by the end of my trip and I asked for a chair to sit in while talking to her and--gulp!--she actually refused me one.  Wha-?

I'm trying to have some gratitude in the midst of this so I don't totally freak out, so my focus is on the fact that the other clerk in the room, a guy I found out was named Rodrigo, got me a wheelchair and called me a cab.  Super guy.  He took my statement.  I'm pessimistic, but my cab driver says airlines do find lost luggage because they have him deliver lost suitcases to tourists in hotels.

Have you guys ever heard of that?  Anybody got any experience with this?  Is there any hope they might find my suitcase?  I've been to 20 Latin American countries and 4 European ones, and I guess I've just be darn lucky, but I've never had luggage lost before, so I really don't know the drill.  Fill me in if you can.

I'm trying to have some gratitude around the fact that I had my laptop with me on the plane, so I didn't lose that.  That's how I'm still in touch with you now for peer support.  On the other hand all of my meds were in my lost suitcase, including my Prazosin that's worked so well for me for the last year for my PTSD nightmares.  Uh oh.  My diabetes meds, too, so uh oh again.  

I'm grateful that I speak good Spanish, so I'll be able to beg a pharmacist or doctor for some meds, sure.  On the other hand, it's Christmas Eve, so it's not business as usual anywhere.

I'm grateful, too, that when my cab finally got me to my hotel at 2am here in San Cristobal, Chiapas, Mexico, the night security guard I woke up to let me in and check me into a room REMEMBERED ME all warm and friendly.  That was cool, right?  A great way to end a rough arrival, no?

So I've got a hooded sweatshirt, black pants, black sneakers, a baseball cap, socks, a clean pair of undies, and a jacket.  I'm good for now, right?

Like I said, as you can see I'm trying to talk myself down from a panic attack by trying to be grateful and not freak out.  Additional non-freakout support welcome.