Last Day In Turkey

     Wow, our adventure in Turkey is only hours away from being complete. I am so thankful to Prof Erdogru, and the kind nurses at Memorial Atasehir. Everyone has been so great to me and my husband, as we have been on the other side of the world, for what we hope will be a life changing surgery. We are still anxiously awaiting the outcome for my pudendal nerve decompression surgery. Unfortunately nerves are just a little slow, and it may be a few months before actually knowing the success of this surgery. This was my very last night of (not) sleeping in Turkey, I never really got on board with the Turkey time, and maybe this will be good for our return home.

     Oh home, how much we have missed our home, we can hardly wait to get back to all that is familiar again. We are most excited to get back to our kids. Parenting over Skype, and Google Voice is getting super old. We want to thank our ward for bringing meals in, and feeding my family while we were away. We also want to thank our parents for taking care of everything on the home front while we were away, and thank our friends and neighbors who stepped up and shared in this mighty load of looking after and keeping our five kids safe, fed, and loved for us as well. We couldn't have done this without all of your help and support thank you so much, we are forever grateful, and feel completely blessed to have such amazing people in our lives.

     I am looking forward to taking hot baths, and laying down in the comfort of my own bed. Kris and I can't wait to get our mouths on some yummy American food again. Food in Turkey isn't terrible, just different. For thirty six years I lived in the same place, and this was my first time traveling out of the country, so it was no surprise that experiencing new food in a different country, would be quite an adjustment. I guess there is two scenarios, You either love it, and come home with some extra pounds, or you're not really that into it and come home weighing less. Let's just say, I am very excited to get on the scale when I get home.

     This afternoon we will board our plane, coming home we had several options, but all the options involved a layover, and a lot were overnight layovers somewhere. After going through our options of Venice, Rome, London, Germany, France, Atlanta, New York and some others we chose Paris France. This is a 16 hour layover, we arrive at 6:00 pm and leave the next day at 10:10 am, which will be a direct flight back to Utah. We hoped this would give us enough time to at least go and see the world famous Eiffel Tower, and maybe try some French cuisine. What a great way to end our adventure. After one of my good friends, who had just recently moved to Germany learned this, she instantly offered to drive down to see us. So now we are even more excited to get to Paris. Even though it is a 5 hour drive for her, we are thankful that we will get to experience Paris with a great friend. Plus we will get our own personal tour of Paris from someone who knows a lot more about the city than us. What a great way to end our trip, I am so excited, Thanks Kelly, we are looking forward to meeting up in Paris.

     On Friday afternoon we will finally arrive home, I have so many stories to share, I can't wait to get them posted on my blog. Some things you can look forward to in my upcoming post, are the sights that we were able to go to while in Turkey, and the crazy merchants and store owners of the Grand Bazaar. What a wild experience, and of course my recovery updates, I can't wait to share. This will be my last post I write in Turkey. I will have to play catch-up once I get home. Thanks to everyone for checking in on our adventure, and my recovery while we have been away. Thanks for all of the prayers and well wishes over the last couple of weeks, and all of the support from my family and friends. Because of this journey I made many new PN friends, as well as some perfect strangers that have been following my story. I feel as if you have all been here by my side throughout this amazing journey. I'm completely overwhelmed with so much love, your love has been a key element in my recovery and healing process. Thanks again to everyone, sending all my love, Shirlayne