The Appointment

Today was the day of the much anticipated appointment.  The one where Andy took my 3 pages of hand-written notes about all the problems and symptoms and the timeline to go along for everything that's happened since July 13th.  The day that everything seemed to go spinning downward and we've not quite found our "normal" since.

Andy made the trip back home and arrived in Anderson late Saturday night.  He seemed to do okay on the trip, but when he landed in Washington, D.C. he noticed that some of his symptoms (vision, and ability to think/process well) were once again popping up.  This time it seems his balance and ability to speak and find words hasn't been as affected, and so everything he's experiencing seems very familiar, but in a milder form.  In some ways, it seems better that he is at least having some of the problems while he is there to be evaluated.

The internet here in Mango has been particularly frustrating while he's been gone.  It suddenly just stopped completely for a few days and has gradually made an appearance again.  Video chats have been nearly impossible, but we've been able to send Facebook messages and e-mails back and forth.  It's been a throw-back to our long-distance, dating days :)

His appointment went well and both Andy and his parents felt that the doctor was thorough and complete in his assessment of the problems.  Because Andy's eye problems have returned (and because our appointment here in Togo with an opthamologist was a little sketch) he has an appointment tomorrow with an opthamologist.  He should also have an MRI this week, hopefully results will be available quickly and we can have a better idea of what our next steps should be.

In the meantime, I've been marking off the days that he's been gone, catching scorpion-like things in my bed (EUGH!), running out of fuel in the gas stove in the middle of cooking, trying to figure out how to pay the electric bill, and having fun discovering that the kids like the anticipation throughout the day of reading parts of "chapter" books together.

Whether he comes here or we go to join him there, I'm looking forward to seeing him again...and eating chocolate!
amanda