I came back from my Italian vacation rejuvenated and ready to finish out my last 6 months of service. I had a great first week back to school teaching my classes and clubs. I visited the art school, cleaned my entire apartment and worked on some peace corps projects. I went to school on Monday, came home and went to bed early feeling sick. I woke up at 6:30 in the morning with terrible stomach pains. I ran to the bathroom and then felt like I was going to throw up. In the 5 steps from my bathroom to the kitchen to get a plastic bag, I passed out cold. I woke up on the floor, not quite sure what had happened, but realized that my nose was bleeding. Did I say bleeding? I meant gushing. I had never even had a nosebleed before and it was disgusting.
I called my peace corps doctor as soon as I pulled myself together. A few hours later I was in Yerevan after a few pit stops at the Noyemberyan hospital, stopping for snow to put on my face and breaks to change out the cotton gauze in my nose. My peace corps doctor immediately took me for x rays. The results said that I had fractured 2 bones in my nose and had a deviated septum. The next day I went back for a CT scan that said the same thing. PC Washington received my x ray results on Thursday, but said they wouldn't make any decisions until seeing my CT scan. I got a call from my peace corps doctor on Saturday to tell me that I would be medically evacuated to Thailand. My plane leaves tomorrow (Yerevan, Moscow, Bangkok). I will probably have the surgery on Friday and spend the next week recuperating in my hotel room. I'll try to post again after the surgery to let you all know how it went! Truthfully, waking up after surgery by myself in a country where I don't speak the language sounds a little scary... but I can't breath out of my nose, I have a constant headache and my nose is crooked. It's definitely necessary, I just wish I could be back home with my family while I recovered. Wish me luck!
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Friday, January 25, 2013
A Blog Post in Pictures and Websites
Sorry it's been months since I last posted. I would say that I've been incredibly busy saving the world one person at a time, or just tell the truth and tell you that I felt like I had nothing new to post. So enjoy the blog post in pictures =)
Halloween at the Koghb Art School, always a great time.
Thanksgiving dinner with a bunch of volunteers, I helped cook the turkey!
The week before Christmas I traveled to the town of Talin and sung Christmas Carols with other volunteers and Armenian children, go to the link below to watch:
We made Christmas ornaments in my 4th form class, the kids went crazy for them.
All of my sitemates got together to sing Christmas carols at Barbara's kindergarten. I think we had more fun than the kids had =)
Charlie Brown Xmass Tree decorated with handmade ornaments from Alissa and I for all of our sitemates
I hosted a sitemate Christmas dinner at my apt. We ended up inviting everyone in our apt building over to hear us caroling. It was great to share American Christmas traditions with our neighbors.
I spent Christmas and New Years in Rome, Sorrento and Naples with my boyfriend. It was an amazing last vacation. Highlights: amazing food & wine, hot showers and just walking outside without getting stared at. Low point: Getting pick pocketed by a 20 year old girl in Rome (don't worry, we chased her down a few blocks and Andy snatched the wallet right from her hand). Somewhere in the middle: Naples on New Year's Eve. The craziest city I have ever seen and I still haven't decided how I feel about it.
Trevi Fountain
View from our hotel in Sorrento
Colosseum
My favorite meal in Italy, followed by several pictures of food and wine that made coming back to potatoes all the more terrible
Update: Less than 6 months until I finish my service!
Check out this hilarious tumblr to see how volunteers really feel sometimes (the older posts are the best).
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