SEATTLE (AP) — A 76-year-old American woman who spent more than a week unable to leave her Cairo apartment as Egyptian protests unfolded outside arrived Tuesday night in Seattle with her son, Phil Derrick.
Mary Thornberry had lived in Egypt for about 15 years.
During a lull in the violence last Thursday night, a Cairo man who works for the U.S. Embassy went to Thornberry’s apartment and helped her reach the airport, where embassy officials helped get her on an evacuation flight out of the country.
She had traveled for five days by the time she reached Seattle.
In her words, “I don’t think I have any adrenaline. I’ll have to manufacture some.”
What’s next? Thornberry tells KING-TV, “I’m going to go to my son’s house in Cle Elum and I’m going to go sleep.”
