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Today is Monday July 1, 2024 and I can’t believe June is over already. SO much happened in this past month…I’m still a bit overwhelmed by it all. First, the kids finished the school year! Then I started my mini summer break…The first part of that was going to Dubai to finish up the coaching course I started and thankfully I graduated! Yipee! From Dubai, I met up with Ali, Yasmine and Shaikha in the airport and we flew to Milan for a few days, then went to Turin for a couple of days to see Hamad (where he’d been for a week with his football team), then we picked him up and went to beautiful Chamonix for a week. I can’t begin to explain how happy, thankful and blessed I felt the whole time I was on this trip. All I kept thinking was where I was a year ago and how far I’ve come. I was overwhelmed with joy and gratitude and felt thrilled to be able to be with my family, doing the things we were doing, in all these lovely places. It was a wonderful feeling to be surrounded by beautiful nature, breathing the fresh air and seeing one gorgeous view after the other. I was soaking it all in and appreciating every minute of it. Of course it wasn’t all rainbows and butterflies…There was one day that I must have caught something because I suddenly got very tired and felt fatigued. I was nauseous and I felt like I was burning up but I wasn’t. We went back home and I rested for the rest of day, took some meds and thankfully I was feeling much better the next day. I’m so glad it was a one day thing and didn’t ruin our time there. Unfortunately there was something a little bit more dramatic that happened which stressed me out. Long story short, I miscalculated and realized when we were in Milan that I didn’t pack enough of my medication for the whole trip. Please keep in mind this was the first “long” trip I take since my diagnoses and I was overwhelmed with all the packing I had to do for all of us before leaving that I must have not been thinking clearly when I was packing my medication. I reached out to my doctor and asked if it was possible for me to lower the dose on some days until I get back to Kuwait. Of course she said ‘No’ and that I should try to get my medication from any pharmacy in Milan. After attempting at three different pharmacies we realized that it was a lost cause as I have to have a prescription for it from an Italian hospital. The next step was to DHL the medicine from Kuwait to our next destination and hope it makes it on time. After having it sent, we realized we needed a back up plan in case customs wouldn’t let it through in Italy. Thankfully Ali had a friend who would be flying in to Geneva in the next few days so we sent a pack to his house in Kuwait and asked him to bring it with him. He saved me! The medicine we had sent by DHL was stuck in customs in Italy until we arrived back in Kuwait so thank God Ali’s friend was able to get my medicine with him. That part of the trip was not fun (stressing out) but الحمد لله it all worked out in the end.

A few days after arriving back in Kuwait I had my appointment with the gastroenterologist that my doctor referred me to after seeing something in my endoscopy report that she wasn’t sure of back in May. Similarly, this doctor also wasn’t 100% sure about what was written in the report and told me it was better for us to redo the endoscopy and that he’ll be doing it himself. On Saturday, a day before my scheduled endoscopy I caught stomach bug and was out of it for the whole day. Yesterday was my appointment for the endoscopy and thankfully it went well. Preliminarily, the doctor said that what he saw was no cause for worry right now…We’ll wait for the biopsy results to come out in 10 days and he’ll be able to give me a better picture then. ألف الحمد لله على كل حال.

اللهم أسعدني في أبسط تفاصيل حياتي و قرب لي الخير حيث كان. اللهم إني أعوذ بك من فواجع الأقدار، ومن فقد الأهل، ومن حزن القلب، وحرقة الشعور، اللهم إني استودعتك نفسي، وأهلي ومن أحب ، ربي أكتب لي أيام جميله إسعدني بتفاصيلها و إغمرني بخيرك الذي لا يفنى اللهم إرزقني حظ الدنيا ونعيم الاخرة، ويسر لي أمري.