For The Love of Mary

And I want a big fat juicy STEAK with potatoes and gravy (beef). I would make a horrid vegetarian. I know you are pleased to hear this Jeff. He made me promise I wouldn't come back vegetarian. The food is good here but I often feel hungry. I really don't like feeling hungry. So American, I know. For all our countries faults I am happy to be from the USA.

I would like to dispel the notion in some people's minds that I am at a spa. I know the treatments sound WONDERFUL and many of them are. I assure you however, this is far from being a spa. I have taken pictures, but of course can't figure out how to download them here. Where are you when I need you Tyler? I am still computer illiterate. I have managed to figure out how to post them to Facebook so if you would like to see pictures of the treatment rooms and how I am fed look on Facebook. For those of you that don't have Facebook I'm sorry. Maybe some day I won't be illiterate. I eat from tins and the treatment beds are wooden slabs with holes in the ends of them for the liquids to drain out of. The drains are large plastic tubes. I have bruises on my bum, elbows and hips from laying on the beds. Some of the treatments you get to lay on plastic cushions that have foam in them. The plastic is hard and ALWAYS slippery cuz all the oil they use doesn't ever come up. Probably because they don't use soap when they wash them! The shower (they call it that, I would not) is a pipe coming out of the wall that sprays all over the room when you stand under it. They do have regular toilets, not holes in the floor like many places here, and for that I am grateful. Enough said.

Baby, the one eyed, no longer limping dog is doing quite well. She has a spring in her step and is wagging her tail when she sees me or Kate. People stare and make comments at us (which of course I don't understand) when they see us petting her but I don't much care. She is a sweet girl. I posted pictures of her on Facebook a few days ago. I have stopped a maid from pouring water on her, just to be funny, a street worker from hitting her with a hoe and one of the drivers from just maliciously scaring her. They are terrible to dogs here and it is making me crazy. I know, I know Jeff but I can NOT stand by and watch it happen. I CAN'T. Sorry. I am trying to find out what it will take to get her back to the States because when Kate and I leave her future looks grim. I promise to find her a home honey!!!

A very little gecko has taken up residence with me and I am enjoying watching him skitter around the room. Think I can make friends with him before I leave? No, Jeff I will not bring him home to. Promise.

Now that I have shared with you how computer illiterate I am (many of you know this to be true) I have to share a funny story. The house I am staying in has Wi-fi, mostly, but no one could remember the password so I could get on. When I wanted to use the computer I had to go across the street and hook up to Wi-fi there. At night when I could talk with Jeff and Cole on Skype I had to go sit in the Lobby of the Clinic. Not only was there no privacy but the mosquito's seem to love me here, even with repellent on. I kept asking Krishnaji, the good doctor, for the password. He would give me one, it wouldn't work and he would give me another. They never worked. I stopped asking but I kept trying to figure it out so I didn't have to go out at night. I went to have my pulse checked one morning, as I do every day, and said to Krishnaji "I am very proud of myself today". He naturally asked me why, to which I told him I had figured out the password at the house. He clapped his hands, laughed and said "you a good hacker". I then laughed and said "that is the funny part, I am virtually illiterate when it comes to computers". He threw his hands to the sky belly laughed and said "how you do it then"? To which I said "sheer determination". He got very serious and said "what the password? I have to writed down" and again he smiled.

It is with that sheer determination that I plan to find a cure for the cancer. I am very grateful to have the opportunity to be here. Good people are taking wonderful care of me and the good doctor is a marvel.

My love,
Mary