Road to Recovery

Pancho and I have had an interesting past few days.  On Monday I had a pain in my abdomen that wasn't going away, so Tuesday we went to the hospital and, long story short, I was operated on to remove a cyst the size of a golf ball.  I'm doing well now.  It was a lacroscopic surgery, so not too traumatic.  Yesterday we returned to Pancho's parent's house.  We'll be here for at least another week.  Our apartment is on the fourth floor and there's no elevator.  I'm not quite up to walking four flights yet, so we're moving into the apartment perhaps in a week, depending on how I feel.  I've only had one other hospital experience.  Three years ago I was bitten by a snake.  I must say, this hospital experience was much better.  No bruising when blood was taken and I was very well and quickly attended to.  Both of those happened with the snake bite, I had bruising for a few weeks and even though I was the only one in the ER, it took forever to get anything done.  The only thing that was the same was the hospital food.  I was hoping it would be better here, since the food in general is better here, but it wasn't.  Still the same hospital food. 
And I wasn't worried at all being in another country.  I was never left alone.  Pancho was with me almost the entire time.  The one time he left his Mom was with me.  Pancho stayed and slept in the room and was a great nurse.  He's been helping me a lot.  I'm really grateful for his attentiveness. 
And, it turns out, we won't be going to Europe now.  And I'm actually not upset about it.  But I can't travel and walk around a lot yet, much less bring suitcases around and do all the tourist things in Rome.  And Pancho can't put off work until I'm feeling well enough to go.  But we're at peace about not going.  We'll go someday.  Right now we're really just looking forward to living in our own place and being on a schedule, with Pancho working and me doing my things.That's what we're really looking forward to.
By the way, I met with the Daughters of St. Paul (or the Paulinas) here in Puebla.  I'm really excited about working with them.  Twice a week I'll be at their bookstore.  At first, I'll just be in the back organizing and helping with whatever they need.  And then, as I start speaking more Spanish, they'll put me on the floor to speak with customers and help them.  I'm really excited about it.  It's exactly what I want to do.  I'm excited about helping them and I think it will really help me with my Spanish.
That's it for about now.  Its been clearer here and we've seen the Popo more often.  Here are two pictures of it. 

View from our apartment

View from my classroom