A Scary Night.

We had just gotten home from our Antallya trip.  My health had been improving.  In fact the bleeding had nearly stopped.  I was drinking me teas, using the crème from the states and felt at peace that I would indeed see healing.  I woke up that night in pool.  I was mad, at the devil.  Not sure if the neighbors heard me, but I stood up praying, furiously rebuking the enemy. 

It was a hard day at school I was in pain (first time since all this started that I experienced intense pain.  A few days later the pain and other symptoms were worse.  I fell apart, started balling and told the family here,  I wanted to go in.  So we canceled school and went into the emergency room.  Actually we went to three hospitals, at each one my friend would ask for a female gynecologist, to which they hospital would reply we not longer have one, try this other place.

We ended up finding a female doc at a hospital specifically for women and children….not sure why we didn't start our search there.  I must have looked a sight cause being terrified that the diagnosis would be cancer or worse yet that my womb was disintegrating I was near tears.  A kind word would have and did push me over the edge.

So they nurses kept assuring us all would be fine.  We were told the wit maybe long we were like 30 on the list but as soon as we walked in the waiting room and say down a nurse walked up, and told us to please follow her.  We were rushed to the front of the line.  the doctor did an ultra sound but it was inconclusive so she sent me off to have my blood drawn and drink a ton of water.  that being done we returned to the room and were rushed ahead of the long line of people.  a second ultrasound the doctor looked at me and smiled, no cancer, no tumors and your womb is fine

She went on with a diagnosis.  I have a severe hormone imbalance, that is causing the constant bleeding.  I have probably had it since puberty, and it has worsened each year, the stress of this year is probably what put it over the edge.  It seems my body dislikes insulin and so I gain weight and produces more testosterone than a woman should produce.  This causes my body to grow those annoying hairs on my upper lip and to try to make more estrogen then normal….somewhere in hear it also causes my ovaries not to released their eggs, so My ovaries are full of cysts of old eggs that never got released (highest cause of infertility among women.)  Disappointing yes, but this is a syndrome not a disease, which means it can be reversed.  Their are several natural means that have proved to have great results.   And I have always planned on adoption so that to is no big deal.  So in the meantime I am taking some progesterone to balance out the extra estrogen and if I loose weight and watch my sugars and starches that should take care of the root of the issue. which would be the resistance to insulin and the excess Andro whatever it is called.

Traveling to a Greek Island!

  Well the family we were visiting also had a teacher who had to renew here visa around the same time as I did.  So we went together.  The Dad of the family drove us a couple of hours away to a place where you get on a ferry and travel to a Greek Island.  You eat lunch or walk around hop back on the ferry and come home with a renewed Visa for another three months.

On Greece soil we decided to have a pork-chop, since you cant eat that over here, It was big and tasty…and we payed in Euro….thought afterwards when I figured out the price in US I decided that pork chop was not nearly as good as it claimed to be by its cost.  That was a 20 dollar plate. 

Exploring Greek Ruins

Wow so much has happened and I left you all wondering whether I would get my visa renewed or not.  So the girls and I flew to Antallya where I met a wonderful family!  They had served in another nation for years till the doors of that country closed, and so they moved here cause the language is similar.  I spent days picking their brains.  They told me of some fruit they had had (doesn't sound right) in that other nation and how God prompted them to put responsibility in the hands of the locals ASAP.  I really appreciated their philosophies and the things they had to share.    I asked some questions about how they were finding things here in this nation.  For so many people have said it is really hard, people that is.  They are closed off.  The mom of that family is very wise about natural healing and so I picked her brain to and she prayed for my health issues.  I cried, I have felt so alone in this.  Back home I could go see Sarah and she would pray with me, here, I haven't had that.  If I talk to the family here to much all they do is worry and I’m worrying successfully well all by myself.

I also really enjoyed my stint in the big city, we went to the store like Costco, where you could find anything you could imagine in Bulk.  I saw a bread maker and if I had the money and wasn't traveling by plane I would buy it for I long for the taste of good homemade wheat bread!  The bread I can buy here is either soft and fresh white bread or dry and stale cardboard with a 6 month shelf life.  We went to an international church, it was fun to worship in my own language to hear a message I actually understand to to meet a bunch of other forefingers here for various reasons.  The guy MC the service (they had a guest speaker) was from Wales, so I also enjoyed his nearly Scottish sounding accent.

The family we stayed with didn't live in the city thought, they lived in this small village, with a large yard, lots of trees in their yard, room for a big dog and a garden spot.  Their neighbors were hundreds of feet from them, with large yards, chickens, goats, sheep, cattle. I felt free, it was incredible to walk about hearing livestock, seeing space, not concrete buildings.  I loved it.  And to be honest I found a part of this country I could call home!!!!   The family lived at the base of a hill, the kids and I hiked up the hill to see the sight.  We spent a few hours exploring the ruins of an ancient Greek city.   It was cool, I took a few pictures but my camera doesn't work very well these days so I didn't take many pics.  I did pick up a piece of broken pottery.  I was told that I probably wont be able to take it out of the country….but we will see.    Here are some of the photos I took of the things we say.  

this first one is the chimney hole of a cave people lived in.  The girls walking alongside of a Greek building down what was a street I would assume.

 

Cool archway of the door of the building you see in the above picture. Don't know what it says, or even if you can see the script carved in the little pillar like thing.  This is about where I found the pottery too.

A well, most were covered, which is scarier then uncovered cause I can see this hole and no to avoid falling in.

 

One of my students posing in a  tomb!  and the girls posing on top of another tomb….