“I have alcohol,” Alvarez said. “I have Tylenol, antibiotics, gauze, needles.” But she says when she called shipping companies to try to send it, she hit a brick wall. She was told, because of recent unrest and restrictions on the island, it could take months to get there and there are still no guarantees, she said. “When you call to find out, they say there’s nothing we can do,” Alvarez said. Dr. Raquel Garcia, a clinical researcher for Research Centers of America, says she was trying to gather supplies to send, too. Garcia said she hit the same brick wall.