Rough Week

Sorry we haven't posted in awhile- it's been a challenging week. I'm going to update you and complain a little bit. First, our computer crashed. Trying to figure out how to get it repaired or totaled has been a little difficult.

Next- last Saturday Janny woke up with the left side of her lip swollen. The swelling went down by the afternoon, but she developed two large blisters on the inside of her mouth. On Sunday, some canker sores were added to the mix. She then developed huge bumps on the back of her tongue. Her tongue looked like a bullfrogs back. She has only been able to eat rice all week. We went to the emergency room one night and the doctor didn't even look inside her mouth and handed us some ointment. One of our coworkers mentioned she may have contracted it from the dust storms. ...Dust storm? Apparently, every spring Korea and Japan get smothered by "Yellow Dust" from China. Winds carry dust from the Gobi desert across China picking up pollution from Chinese cities and bringing to Korea and Japan. The dust is toxic and causes 1.8 million people in Korea to get sick- Janny apparently one of the casualties. We think the pollution and heavy metals in the air caused her multiple mouth ulcers.

On Friday night I woke up about 4 in the morning with the flu. I was up most of that night doing flu things. We went to the hospital the next day to get Janny's mouth looked at and some medicine for me. I got a shoot for my throat- not sure why. Janny got some more ointment.

Icing on the cake- The new school year started the first week of March. We graduated our older classes and got brand new ones. Our director added more classes to our schedule- about 40- 40 minute classes a week. In the morning, Janny has 5 and 6 year olds who don't know any English. I have 4 year olds. The kids are really cute but require a lot of energy- energy we were clearly lacking last week.

It's Sunday morning now. I feel a little better and Janny's mouth is slowly improving.