"Not Present"

On September 6th, I finally was able to complete my Physical with Dr. Card. After being diagnosed, I had decided to wait until after I healed from surgery to do it. (All the rest of the family had there's done back in April) Dr. Card did the normal checkup stuff along with the things required of us by the State Department. These included blood drawn (what's one more prick?), a pap smear (always fun), HIV testing (What????), an EKG of my heart and a Tetanus-Diphtheria-Acellular-Pertussis shot (OK, what's two more pricks?). You know... all the fun stuff! I teased that if I end up with HIV then I will take a hint and NOT leave the country. LOL But if not.... then watch out South America! We're coming!
Skip ahead a week---
We got all our paperwork back from my Physical. For the official record, I do not have HIV. Good thing. ;) But funny little story... (cuz we are so funny, don't ya know!) One of the forms that Dr. Card had to fill out was my Clinical Evaluation. It has every part of my body written down on a list. Then there are 4 columns titled Normal, Abnormal. Not Examined and Description. Everything on my list is marked "Normal" until you get to Breasts. Nothing is marked except a note in the Description column that says, "Not Present." I had to laugh! LOL
So... we are here almost at the end of September and Brett turned all my medical papers in to the State Department. Now our "Out-of-Country Adventure" fate is in their hands. What a long process this has been! We have never felt differently about moving even after being diagnosed. Let's hope they feel the same way. Cross your fingers!

In other info--
We got all our passport applications filled out. What a pain! That is a LOT of writing for filling out 6 applications! I know, I'm a whiner! I cracked myself up though when I was filling out my application and I got to the description part. When I got to the hair color box, I asked Brett if he thought I could put "Not Present"? LOL Now that would be funny!