I've picked up the Peace Corps application once again. I am graduating college this summer, no matter! (yay!), and then I am moving out to New Mexico, just to change everything in my life up. But, despite this move, I am still working on the PC application. I'm quitting my job this upcoming Friday (I've given months of notice), and that will relieve so much stress, although I'm going to miss my class and the rest of the kids like crazy. However, I feel like my time there has come to an end. It's just time for me to move on.
So, I am planning a road trip in the end of July, driving my worldly possessions out to Albuquerque, seeing lots of the US along the way. I plan to be DONE with the application by then and to only be waiting for the decision.
Yesterday I had the first doctor's appointment I've had in a good month. I had to drive back to my hometown an hour away at eight in the morning. I waited two hours in the waiting room and examination room for the doctor, to get that stupid appendectomy form filled out. He made me get a "physical" (poking my appendix scar) and a CBC for a flat one hundred dollars, which my insurance will not be covering. Then he filled out the form.
And there you go. One hundred dollars (plus forty five for the rental car) to have a man I've never seen before put his hand on my eight year old appendix scar and sign his name to a piece of paper. I will asking PC for a reimbursement of this cost, as I haven't yet used up my *free* $165 dollars that they will cover for a female under 40 years old.
My CBC test said, guess what? I'm stilllll anemic. Hooray. But I think it'll be okay because the additional forms the Peace Corps had sent to me after my initial medical ones said, if the CBC still shows abnormal results, then the doctor needs to write a plan of treatment. I interpreted that to mean, if the doctor thinks I'm okay, then so will the Peace Corps.
So I just need to go have those Polio shots, an MD's signature on that one form that the Nurse Practicioner had signed, and then the mango allergy form filled out. Hopefully, I can get that all done in one appointment at Student Health. Fingers crossed.
I really haven't thought about the Peace Corps at all in the past two months. You might take that to mean I'm not serious about it, but really, I just got tired of the application, especially stressing when I simply had no time to go to the doctor. But now that school has (sort of) settled down, and I'll be quitting my job, and I know I won't be stranded in NC forever no matter what, I have had more time to think, once again, about Peace Corps. And I might even be more excited now that I'm not so stressed about it, actually.
It sounds more like a choice, once again, since I took a break from the application. I guess for a while there it was feeling like the only option, and the minute I feel forced into doing something, I'm not a happy camper. So, basically, what I'm trying to say is, I'm getting my ass in gear and will finish school, move out West to have somewhat of a normal life for a few months, and then, hopefully, head out to a new country.
