I'M FREE! FREEEEEEE!!!!!

Finally it's all over and I am released of my shackles.... the wonderful blood spattered plastic and metal that had been attached to my hand for FOUR DAYS!



You know... when I went in the hospial on the first day and the nurse asked me which hand I wanted the IV in I told her it didn't matter so she stuck it in my right hand. However if I had known that the needle and the plastic IV connecter were going to be stationed IN MY HAND for four days I would have told her to put it in the left!

It sure is interesting trying to do stuff with your left hand when you are right handed -- like have you ever soaped and washed your left armpit using your left hand? Or fed yourself using your non-dominant hand? And forget about putting on makeup or doing your hair. I should not complain though... I can't imagine what it is like for all those young men who go off to fight wars and come back without an arm so in that respect I should be glad.

It snowed yesterday in Sivas -- it's been 3 years since I've seen snow. Thankfully I was snuggled up in bed watching it from the warmth of the Sivas Hastane (hospital). The hospital was not bad, I had my own private room and so on. But the language barrier can be a pain in the ass (or the bladder) when you desperately need to use the ladies room and you're hooked up and you have to call the nurse to unplug you to go to the bathroom.... or when a nurse comes into the room and asks you some huge sentence in Turkish and then we just sort of stare at each other blankly when I can't answer.... I MUST BECOME FLUENT IN TURKISH ASAP!!!

Anyways it is over. I have learnt my lesson -- NEVER drink the tap water in another country!

I am extremely happy today, not only to be free of the parasite but also I got PAID and I go to London on WEDNESDAY to see my boy! Wheeeeeee!!!!!!

London look out... here I come!



I bet I won't see any of THOSE in the trees in London.



Or those either!!!!!



Pretty Sivas on a sunny day.