Time to put this blog to some of-the-moment use. I have friends checking it for the 411 on what’s going on (because it is all a bit confusing!) and so I’m going to put it here.

I still have not heard from work. They’re waiting for the return of 20 pages of details they asked my doctor to fill out; he was doing it as best he could “a few minutes at a time between appointments”. My last update on this was 2 weeks ago! I grew tired of twiddling my thumbs waiting, waiting, waiting in Brussels and I hadn’t seen my fiancee in 5 weeks. So…I decided to “pop on over” to the US. My hope was that work would give me the call that I am cleared to go back to work while I’m here. I’ll admit though, with every day that goes by this appears less likely to happen. My final surgery is June 5th and as the lead time up to that disappears it seems more pointless to go back to work in the meantime. I’m willing to! I really want to (not having had an income for 2 years is a helluva motivator!), but my hopes are dwindling for that to happen over the next few weeks. We’ll see.

How long will I stay here? I’m not sure; up to another week. I passed a great couple of days with my sister and now I’m in DC getting acquainted with the city. (So far I’m really pleased. It’s a little weird to arrive in a new city/apartment and know that it’s supposed to be your “home”, when it feels like such a stranger. But that will pass. The neighborhood is great and I’ve already connected with some friends that have been awaiting my arrival.) If work calls, I’ll be off to that new (old) mistress. If it doesn’t, then I’ll have to go back to Brussels in the next week or so as I have some medicine to get (which I’ve already delayed for a week because I was itching to get over here for a visit).

So there’s that. The extended plans have not changed – I still have the apartment in Belgium through the surgery. I’ll still be “living” there through to July. I will post it here if there’s any update/news. Otherwise, you can be assured that I’m simply here (the USA) for the week, enjoying the fiance’s new fondness for baseball games, absolutely hating the hysterical and local-to-a-fault style of news on TV, feeling nostalgic for the subtitles that usually run at the bottom of all my favorite shows, but loving the friendliness, sun and choice/convenience of…everything!

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