Welcome Back to the USA

I would like to say that my trip back to the US has been a wonderful experience. However, we all know that would not be my life. Something just HAD to happen. The long flight back to the US caused me to develop a blood clot (DVT) in my leg. So today has been filled with doctor, emergency room visits, ultrasounds and clot dissolving medicine delivered via injections to the abdomen. Each day I have to go to the hospital for injections to the abdomen plus I will be taking blood thinners for at least 3 months. Monday they should be able to tell me if I can fly back to Germany on Saturday as scheduled. It has been an eventful trip back thus far.

Fuehrerschein!

I passed my drivers license test! Ich habe ein Fuehrerschein! I am so excited to be able to drive again. Frist trip, Ikea. Sean, Steve and I made a trip to the Ikea in Mannheim. Steve and I both needed stuff for our apartments. Sean tagged along just so that he could go to KFC. The chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy taste the same as they do in the US. The problem is that they don't have the buttermilk biscuits. Damn! Only 5 days until I come home!! Then I can eat my weight in buttermilk biscuits if I so choose. :-)

Augenheilkunde

Anyone know the German word for eye doctor? I do! It is Augenheilkunde. I learned it today when I needed to go to the eye doctor. I woke up this morning with a broken blood vessel in my eye. Don't know how it happened but it did. They said it should correct itself in a week. And no, I am not going to take any pictures. Let's just say it is really gross and leave it at that. I just may fashion myself an eye patch out of a beer mat just so no one has to see it.

9 days until I come home for the holidays!!