Breast Infection...this post is boring. Sorry!

Hi everyone!

I am ALIVE! Sorry mom, grandma/grandpa, and Uncle Don for not writing lately (because let's be honest, who else cares?) As I'm sure you all know though, I have been sick. And it sucks. 

Last week I woke up early to drop off Jordan for his trip and I felt a lump in my breast. When I got home, the pain was much worse and I felt a slight fever so I started doing some google research. I diagnosed myself with a breast infection. Despite the pain, I did hot compresses, massaged it, nursed on it, and pumped it (every tip I had read online to do). I kept feeling worse and without Jordan around things quickly went downhill from there. Fortunately Ceren came to my rescue. She picked K and me up and took me to the hospital for an ultrasound. They confirmed what I already knew... it was a breast infection. Later that evening my fever spiked to 104 so we went to the Emergency Room. This was an experience. Apparently they don't get many foreigners around there so they were excited to have me. I'm pretty sure my nurse was fairly new to the job so that only added to his anxiety. Also from what I could gather by his body language, he seemed to be in some sort of competition with another nurse (as if trying to prove himself). If I wasn't sick, it probably would have been more amusing but at this point I was ready to punch him. Anyways, it took THREE attempts but he finally got my IV right. (I think) they gave me two medications. One to reduce the fever and another for the infection. By the end of it all, I felt way better and was ready to sleep for a few days. Ceren had me stay at her house so that she could take care of me. I am so lucky that God sends earthly angels. Literally, I don't know how I could have survived everything without her help. 

I have no idea where the hospitals or pharmacies are located, which hospitals are the better ones, what type of insurance I have, who accepts it, and nobody at the hospital spoke English so that would have been especially challenging without Ceren. I am a strong capable woman so I'm absolutely certain that eventually I would have figured it all out but I'm really grateful that I didn't have to. So that's it for now. I'll write in soon with more interesting, fun things about Turkey!

Love and miss you all

xoxo