No More Needles For Now

Two weeks ago, I received my medical packet and last week I went home to get it all taken care of.

So, to recap my "medical visit" home there was a doctor's visit, dental visit, trip to the health department, and a trip to the cardiologist. Oh, and a return visit to the doctor. There were seven needles total. Not to bad... for the first wave.

Contrary to the title, the needles don't bother me much. It is the waiting to get stuck that bothers me. Once the needle finds its place I always think to myself, "Self, that wasn't so bad". I usually agree. After I received my tetanus booster, I even wanted to laugh. Not because it tickled but because of the mental image I had of the nurse holding the syringe, pulling her arm back and letting loose like she was throwing a dart at this invisible bulls-eye in my left deltoid. Cricket anyone?

All-in-all it was a very productive week. We had to wait a little bit longer than expected for all of the lab tests to run. Since I had already left to come back to Nashville by the time the last results came in, Mom added the lab results to the medical packet and got it in the mail this Monday.

On Wednesday morning at 4:15 (in case you are wondering, no I was not awake) I received an e-mail from the Peace Corps stating that I had been dentally cleared. My teeth rejoiced! This morning at 4:15 I receive another e-mail, but this time it only notified me that my medical packet had been received. I hope this is not like LOST with the reoccurring numbers.

It could be 4-6 weeks before I hear anything about medical clearance, but in the meantime I will find out who my Placement Officer or PO is. This is the person who tells me that I'm going to ________ country and I will be doing ________ job and I will be leaving on ________ date. So, needless to say I can't wait to find out who he or she is.

I slacked off on my French studies last week with the change in schedule and haven’t gotten back to it yet. Maybe tomorrow I’ll start again.

Thanks for reading. I hope to have more soon.