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This is day 5 in Krakow and I feel adjusted to the time. I took a walk on my own in the city and felt totally comfortable. We are staying not far from Old Town. Old Town is surrounded by and narrow park and walkway. I walked around Old Town and then walked through it.Continue reading “Impressions of Krakow”

Krakow is a beautiful old city that seems to be thriving. We have not detected any sense of fear associated with a shared border with Ukraine. This may in part be due to the fact that the shared border is on western Ukraine – far from the war activity. Ukraine is a very large countryContinue reading “Cultural insensitivity???”

My undergraduate college is Luther College in Decorah Iowa. It is a great small liberal arts college that had a great acceptance rate for the University of Iowa Medical School. Between my junior and senior year of high school I took Biochemistry 101 with college kids on campus. I had a blast and decided toContinue reading “Oops – I forgot”

After starting the 4women4URS.com blog, I realized how much I missed blogging. I am driving toSpartanburg SC today, the first leg of my journey to Krakow. I had a goal of having my home organized before I left and while I have fallen short, I have unpacked all of the boxes/containers that I brought fromContinue reading “My voice is back – the adventure begins”

I have a hernia in my right lower abdomen on the right. I have had it for at least 15 years and it hasn’t bothered me enough to fix it. Habitat has changed that and I have a support I wear at Habitat. Wednesday there was an extra work day for “finishing activities” so IContinue reading “Macgyvering hernia support”

I often awake thinking of what I want to blog and then never get around to it. Today I woke up a 4 AM with my bladder per usual. When I was still awake at 5 I decided to do this blog rather than think about it. My summer has been overall good. I haveContinue reading “Krakow here I come”

When I selected the title of my blog early 2021, I thought those were 3 words that reflected who I am. I assumed they would be relevant for the next stage of my life. Unleashed was because I felt so constrained by the restrictions on what I could say to whom as a government employeeContinue reading “Nailed it”

I have started many posts over the last several months. They serve as a bit of a diary for me. I am not entirely sure why I never finished them. It has been almost 2 years since I moved to Nashville and it has become my home. I have mentally constructed a bubble so IContinue reading “Not another f*#cking hill”

During my 4 weeks of being homebound, I had too much time on my hands to observe Carli’s eating and digestion. Her first episode of “being unwell” was in August. She spent about 12 hours lying on the couch sleeping and not being interested in eating or drinking anything until she suddenly jumped up andContinue reading “Munchausen by proxy – too much time observing Carli”

Today my temperature was “normal for me” for the first time in a month. A very depressing 4 weeks of feeling unwell, being fearful that my body would not be able to fully recover “this time” While I never recovered most of my taste and smell from one year ago which means I do haveContinue reading “What I learned from The Sopranos….”