Saturday, April 5
Quick report on my health
Since several have asked, I'll give a quick update on my UTI. The urine culture last week was what I feared--the infection is even stronger and had "overpowered" the antibiotic I took for 10 days (even though it was sensitive to it on the previous test). The doctor had me get blood work and an abdominal ultra sound to be sure my kidneys were not involved. And GOOD NEWS my kidneys are just fine. (Have a few stones in my gall bladder, but kidneys are great and that was our concern). So now I'm on TWO powerful antibiotics, and some other meds to support them. I love this doctor. When I left her office Thursday and she was sending me for kidney evaluation, she hugged me, gave me kiss on the cheek (very common here) and said "I will be praying for you Hermana". She isn't LDS but treats many missionaries. She didn't charge us Friday when we brought all of the results from the lab to her. She plans on calling me on Tuesday. If I'm feeling better, she will increase my prescription from 10 days to 15 days so we can really kill this bug once and for all! I would like that since I am now entering the 7th week since it started. I'll just be glad to not feel like my energy is being sapped to fight this bug. The sisters in the temple have given me a bijillion ideas of things that will help--and I think I'll try them all! :)
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Good morning, how are you?
My name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys traveling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.
I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of used stamps because trough them, you can see pictures about fauna, flora, monuments, landscapes etc. from all the countries. As every day is more and more difficult to get stamps, some years ago I started a new collection in order to get traditional letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately, it is impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are very small countries with very few population, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.
For all this, I would ask you one small favor:
Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from Guatemala? I understand perfectly that you think that your blog is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in Guatemala in order to increase my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and an original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:
Emilio Fernandez Esteban
Avenida Juan de la Cierva, 44
28902 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain
If you wish, you can visit my blog www.cartasenmibuzon.blogspot.com where you can see the pictures of all the letters that I have received from whole World.
Finally, I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help me or not, I send my best wishes for peace, health and happiness for you, your family and all your dear beings.
Yours Sincerely
Emilio Fernandez
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