Difficulties

Hey guys. Sorry I haven't posted lately. I just wanted to let you know that this may be my last post for a few days. I'm having some health troubles.

A couple of weeks ago, I started feeling a pain in my right side. It got to the point where it hurt to move around, so I went to a doctor last Friday. He spoke fairly good English, so no trouble there, but I think he jumped to a conclusion, as doctors around here are prone to do, from what I hear. After taking an ultrasound of my kidneys, which turned out fine, he poked and prodded at me and concluded that it was a greenstick fracture of my lowest right rib. He told me to come back in two weeks if it didn't feel better. However, it has since gotten distinctly worse, and today I missed a day of school (not an important day for me - the kids had exams, so I only had one class to teach, and that was the special education class) to go see the doctor again. He recommended that I go to the hospital and have a CT scan done. I hope it's nothing huge, but worst case, they could admit me to the hospital this afternoon and I could be kept for a few days, maybe even have surgery. I don't know, and frankly I'm pretty worried about it. It's gotten to the point where it hurts to walk, to breathe deep, to bend over, I'm having trouble sleeping, and it basically just stinks. Happily, though, a guy at the board of education is being really nice and taking me there and conversing with the doctors there in Japanese for me. It's not all bad. So, I'll keep you guys posted, but this is not generally good times over here. I hope you all are having a better time of it than I am. Take care of yourselves.