Mother's Day

We had a fantastic week that pretty much centered around two main things. The first being Mother's Day. In Thailand, Mother's Day is celebrated on the Queen's birthday, which is August 12th. So, it came on a Tuesday and everything shuts down, and almost everyone has work off. Yay for Jeff staying home! Although, we were glad that not everyone had work off, or we wouldn't have been able to get a taxi to our Mother's Day celebration at our church!

I was so happy that the ward planned an activity in honor of Mother's Day, because it seems like even thought we live in Thailand, we usually end up celebrating holidays on the Western schedule because so few members of our ward are actually Thai. Our ward is pretty much everyone in Thailand (literally, our boundaries include the entire country) who doesn't speak Thai, because all the Thai wards meet together all over the city! So, we have people from Sri Lanka, Nepal, South Africa, Congo, Philippines, Canada, America, Taiwan, Korea, France, China, Germany, Sweden, and probably many more I can't think of. I think it is nice that even though very few of us are from Thailand, we celebrate and honor their traditions because we LIVE here! This is our world right now, so of course we should learn about the traditions!

Tuesday morning, many of us met at the church to prepare, set up, and Jack's favorite... dig holes. Part of the celebration was planting 50 Jasmine trees all over the church yard. The guys spent a good portion that morning digging all the holes, and the kids were more than happy to help! This is Jack and Jane with Ishwari, from Nepal.

Everyone started arriving and the kitchen was busy, busy! I love this picture of the sisters all happy with their work! From the left is Kim Hofheins, Camilla (with her back turned), Excelcia, Mary Grace, Mendy, and (in purple) Napa. I know I've said how much I love our ward here, but honestly, this activity made me really realize what a hole there will be in my heart when we have to say goodbye to everyone. How could you not love these women?

Jane was loving playing ping-pong with her boyfriend, Dipu. We found out good news about Napa and Dipu this week: they got their wedding license! We were hoping we wouldn't be gone when they got around to having the celebration, but it's looking like it will be in a month or two, so we are thrilled we get to be around for the happy event! They've been SO good to our Jack and Jane, we hope this will present some way that we can repay them for all they've done for us. How can you possibly repay people who love your children so much?

I had to take a picture of the fruit/veggie table because it all looked so beautiful! There's so much variety with fruits here. I'll particularly miss the mangos and pineapple, and for SO cheap. It still seems a little unbelievable that you can get an entire pineapple for about 40 cents!

Jack was the first child there, since we were there early to set up, so he got to be the example to all the other children on how to pay respect to his mother on Mother's day. He took the flower, kneeled on the ground in a wai, brought the flower to me and kneeled in my lap while I got to tell him how much I love him and how absolutely handsome he is. Okay, you're probably supposed to say other things, but he really is handsome! He was a great sport to demonstrate several times for everyone!

This is the Bunker family respecting their mother, who somehow didn't quite get in the picture! They are such a great family who've been an anchor to this ward as long as we've been here and long before.

All the children and fathers wrapped up their jasmine tree and brought it to the mothers so we could plant it together with a little sign next to it so the children could see its progress every week. Jack was completely surprised today that it looked the same as it did on Tuesday! Maybe we should have explained that better!

This is us attempting a picture before going out to plant. Jane was a little excited, despite the cold that started that day for her. Poor kid. Luckily, she had many people who wanted to spoil her with attention this day!

Don and Nan (the Newlyweds!) were in charge of the entire activity and did an amazing job! Nan had every little detail planned out, and Don was working from early morning until late afternoon taking care of all the running around, setting up, and putting together. They really made a great team, and I felt the entire activity was an enormous success!

Just another picture of people I love here. From the back left: Nan, Mendy, Excelsia, (front row) Carmella, Catherine, Jeanene, Wendy, and Bishop Anderson. I honestly wished that I could have taken pictures of everyone and everything. I just don't want to forget these sweet brothers and sisters of mine.

Nan had everyone decorate these papers with things that reminded them of their mothers. I wish I could tell you everone's name in this picture, but there are several I don't know. Overall, I was just SO impressed by how many people were there. Everyone had an amazing meal, fun with the activities, and lots and lots of visiting! It was a fantastic way to spend Thai Mother's Day!

Have you ever noticed how many things are "made in Thailand"? Ever since I found out we were moving here, I started to notice that a LOT of our clothes are made in Thailand. I thought, "great, now I can start getting them much cheaper because I won't be paying for the export stuff". Well, I'm pretty cheap anyway, so thinking I was going to get things cheaper, was a pretty tall order. Occasionally, I'll find good brands of clothing that are made in Thailand, Vietnam, or Cambodia in the markets. But, I've never found "the source". Come to find out, normal people don't ever get to "the source", but I felt like this was pretty close. This "made in Thailand" fair was just that, all the companies who have factories in Thailand, selling their products at discount prices. I was in heaven.

Jeff and I have been wanting to do some furniture shopping, and we heard these fairs are the place to go, so this is pretty much how I convinced him to join me for a FUN day of shopping! Okay, so it wasn't as fun for everyone else as it was for me, but Jeff admitted it turned out to be a lot better than he was expecting. He was SUCH a good sport because honestly, this is pretty close to his worst nightmare!

I could have stayed there ALL day. It was gigantic, the sales were incredible, and if you need a break, there's plenty of food and a place you can get a foot massage. What more could you ask for? We went through the furniture isles, but honestly weren't finding anything, but the kids sure had fun! I wanted to take these fun bean bag chairs home with me, Jane loved them so much. I probably should have just let them relax here while I did some rounds on my own!

Have you seen these vibrating platforms that you stand on that are supposed to make you drop the pounds in no time? My kids find them everywhere and love to try them out. I can't believe how nice the sales people are about letting them try them all out. They were vibrating all over, and singing and humming until they couldn't anymore because they were laughing so hard. This isn't much of an action shot, but the moment made all that furniture shopping worth it.

So, we ended up with NO furniture, but we did end up with loads of wooden toys (my favorite) for down the road, dresses for Jane that I am going to have to hide unless I want her to try them all on everyday, AND we found a darling doll house for Jane, which is what we were really hoping for. I never thought I'd enjoy girl toys as much as I did boys (tools, trucks, ropes, trains, etc), but I can't wait to get this little house set up! I still have one whole month before I can show her and it's killing me! We were feeling a little ragged after about 6 hours, and were lucky to get a nice taxi driver home who was patient with all our stuff! I totally felt like the overindulgent westerner, but when the bargains are good, why wait?

Other random parts of our week...

Occasionally, I'll catch Jane daydreaming out her window. I think her view is pretty spectacular, although you can't see it all in this photo. I love to look at it too. There's so much to see in the city!

Jack loves this place where you can get toast with a topping on it. Jack always wants this orange stuff that we don't even really know what it is, but he loves it! Jeff's least favorite food is anything having to do with soggy bread, so he won't touch the stuff, but I love just the strawberry topping. Bread is different here, but this bread is awesome!

People watching their Olympic Thai boxer on the giant screen outside of one of the malls.
We've only been able to watch bits and pieces of the Olympics online and it's broken my heart. I love watching the games and was all excited about it, until I realized the broadcasting would be extremely limited, and only in Thai. Very disappointing!

We went to Dipu's shop this week to get a new orchestra dress made for me and a new suit for Jeff. We're so proud of Dipu for taking the risk to start a business. Custom clothing is extremely common here (and sometimes the only option for us "western size" girls), and definitely one things tourists take advantage of when they come. We've done very little of it, but are hoping we can go home with a few things that we love, from someone we love! This is Jack relaxing after their "chair wars" while were getting our measurements done.

Jane's always thrilled to go to Dipu's shop. I was touched when we showed up unannounced earlier in the week to see that Dipu had pictures of Jane hanging up in his shop. Iit's hard for me to comprehend how people we've met in just the last year, can sometimes seem so much like family.

I apologize if this post seems thrown together! It's been an exhausting Sunday and with Jane not feeling too well, it's taken its toll on all of us. We're exhausted, so I'm going to bed and looking forward to starting another fun week!

Sayonara, Kazuya!

This was another week of goodbyes. I know it comes with the territory here, but it sure doesn't make it any easier. We crammed in all the playtime with Kazuya we could, which was difficult considering he had summer school every day this week!

Jack went over to play at his house on Monday afternoon (he lives only about 500 meters away, so it's super easy!), then I invited Kazuya to come swimming with US on Wednesday. I've been realizing lately what a blessing it's been that my kids love the water here. It's such a fun activity for us to do together year round, and everyone here swims! Every time we go to a pool, kids of all ages are really SWIMMING! Not just playing around in the shallow end. They all wear goggles, sometimes swim caps, and are diving down, swimming laps, or anything. Most five year olds here swim better than I do. Anyway, it was a fun afternoon and Jack and Kazuya swam until they were exhausted! Trying to get these boys to look at me for a picture was next to impossible. They are SO silly together.

Backing up a day, on Tuesday, I took the kids to the Children's Meuseum. Before Jack was in school, we went all the time, but we really hadn't gone since last summer, so this was a treat. We took the train to the end of the line, then we walked through the park to get there. As we were walking through this gorgeous park, immediately a woman spotted me and approached me selling bird and fish food. My initial reaction is to always say no, but honestly, how much money could this woman possibly make in a day selling this stuff for ~50 cents? Plus, here, they don't approach the parents so much as they just start shoving things in the kids hands hoping they'll take off with it and we'll just buy it to minimize the hassle. I despise that approach, but am trying to remember the "mai ben rai" attitude here and not let it get to me. I decided to just do it.

After we bought it and started towards the lake, we noticed there were NO fish, and NO birds. We finally found two birds on the other side of the lake, so Jack ran over there. As soon as he started tossing bread crusts to them, FLOCKS started flying in. It was amazing. I wished I'd thought to take pictures sooner. This was after about 1/3 of them were already there. They surrounded us quickly and Jane got to practice her "go away, birds" a LOT. She's not in love with birds when they're right by her toes. Anyway, it was an exciting few minutes for the kids, although I don't think there was one fish in that lake. The next time a lady approached us and started shoving more food in Jack's hands, I stood firm and made Jack give it back so we could move on with our day!

When we got to the museum, we discovered they had lots of changes and a whole new Disney Learning exhibit we hadn't seen yet. We stared off looking at a fun water play area, until Jack dragged me out saying, "Mom, let's go. I want to learn about something. This isn't learning!" Where does this kid come from? We found the Disney stuff and Jack quickly found Belle's library and plopped down with any English books he could find, and Jane discovered all kinds of fun, girly things. She loves Belle, yet has never seen the movie. Nowadays, you don't have to have seen the movies to know all the characters!

They had a whole shelf of "glass slippers" to try on, and seeing as we were the ONLY kids there for a long time, Jane wore them all over the exhibit. She felt so pretty.

They pretty much had a section for all the major Disney princesses and had done the whole place up to look like a big, pink, castle. It was worn, but still a lot of fun to see new things and have a lot of it to ourselves! We found another new area in another building. It was a HUGE room that they had cleared out, except for one corner that had "house" stuff in it (a market, doctor's office, kitchen area, etc.), and the other corner had the coolest building stuff in it. I was totally worn out when we entered this room, but who could stop them when they had both found their favorite things?

Jane played with this doll house FOREVER! She loves doors and windows, and everything on this house moved. She put stuff in, out, on, and rearranged everything countless times. I hated to take her away from it. So, I've started my search for the perfect, simple, wooden doll house for her for a future date. If anyone has any tips, let me know!

Jack would have played with these things for MUCH longer, except the employees were packing it all up after all the school kids left. We made some pretty cool stuff, and I'm now kicking myself for not remembering the name of it. Anyone seen this stuff before?

Friday, we went over to say one last goodbye to Kazuya and his mother, Taka. I was thinking that Taka was crazy to invite us all over two hours before they left for the airport, but after saying goodbye, I could see that she was just really having a hard time leaving. They've been here for six years and Taka does not want to go back to Japan. Not that she doesn't like Japan, but she was one of those who was really well adjusted to expat life here. It suited her well, and she was comfortable with it. I've felt like some changes will be hard to make after only being here for two years, but she's been here much longer. I'm sure she'll love being "home" and it will start feeling like it after not too long.

Taka (on the right, unfortunately, it's NOT a good picture of her!) was one of the first mothers in Jack's class this last year to befriend me. She and Sukma (left) have been great friends for the last year, and the children get along so well. Taka was always SO good to plan play dates for several of the children at her home, and was always super generous with her car/driver, giving me rides home from dropping Jack off, or even just seeing me on the street walking and picking me up. Just a sweet woman who is very selfless and kind. We'll miss her, and Jack's already missing Kazuya. I have hopes that someday they'll run into each other again. It could happen! (Don't I look like a giant next to these two? I was even crouching down! They are tiny!)

The good part about this goodbye visit was that we got to see Sukma, Sasha, and Brandon for the first time since they got back from their holiday in Indonesia. Sasha started at her new school, and Brandon will probably start soon too, so we're hoping they can fit us in there somewhere before WE go! Even though it had been a month, Jane and Brandon picked right up where they left off... best friends! What's better than a big apartment with a ton of toys? A big apartment with NO toys! Everything was packed, so the kids enjoyed all the empty closets and cupboards and had a great time playing with absolutely nothing!

Saturday was a good day. We ate lunch at a DELICIOUS Mexican place that we love, and then I was off to a meeting for Primary leaders in our stake, which was held at the brand new building the Church just renovated not too far from our apartment. We've passed this building a lot, but never gone in, so it was fun to see inside. It's nice to see a little growth in Thailand with projects like this. I only wish this building was the one that OUR ward got to attend!

So, the Primary leader meeting was unlike anything I'd ever attended before. It was all in Thai, besides one short presentation from one Stake leader from Sweden/America which she used a translator for. I fully intended to not understand much of this meeting, but luckily a sweet sister sat next to me and translated into my ear for most of it. I remember being in a meeting the first time here and hearing lots of talking during the lesson. I was thinking it was kind of rude for people to constantly be talking in the back while the teacher was presenting, but chalked it up to a cultural difference. Then, I realized that these people were not talking, they were translating. If you haven't been exposed to it before, you just don't think of it I guess! Or, at least I'd like to think I'm not the only one who would have had to think about it for a minute. Well, thank goodness for whispers of translation. I certainly got more out of it with a translator, than without. Although my head was spinning after a while of trying to get what I can from the Thai, but listening to the translator at the same time. I was exhausted, I can't imagine what this sweet sister was feeling after talking for almost two hours straight!

So, I've been practicing a little this week. Practicing what, you may ask? Well, I used to play the violin, and I'm trying to play it again. My friend's husband is a very successful conductor around the world, and he's doing a concert here this month. His "people" called me and are arranging for me to play in it. I told him I was not in shape, but he seemed to still want me. I'm thinking it's for my foreign face more than anything, but I'll take it. It's motivation, and that's definitely what I need if I ever want to play with the Orchestra at Temple Square when I get back! So, what's surprised me with practicing again after so long is how I can actually get SORE from my violin. I run and lift regularly, and playing the violin made me SORE! Does that seem weird? So, not only am I feeling out of shape musically, but physically more than I have in a while! For all of Brother Barrus' other students who read this (all 4 of you, I think?), I thought of you when I knew I should have been doing my arm flapping exercises that I'm sure you all do every day, right?

Have a great week.

Dream World!

We've done many things in Thailand that we wouldn't have ever been able to do if we hadn't lived here. On the other side of that, we gave up a lot of things to be here. One thing I was sure we would have given up was snow. How could they have snow in Thailand? (On a side note: Preeya's daughter was over playing with Jack one day and saw a picture of him playing in snow and was amazed. She said, "only rich people get to see snow". That about broke my heart! I had my in-laws send me some artificial snow for her for Christmas last year in an attempt to give her something she may never experience in her lifetime. It's not the same, but what can you do? Well, NOW I know what to do...)

So who could have guessed we found SNOW in Thailand? We went sledding on Saturday, if you can believe it. We visited a place called Dream World with Scarlett and Heather and inside you can go into a place called Snow Town where they have snow and a hill to sled down. I don't know if it was amazing, or just amazingly cold. We were freezing!

You go in and they give you boots and a coat. Luckily, Heather had warned us and we brought our own jackets, socks, pants for the kids, and she let us borrow gloves. It was a little shocking for the kids to be so cold. Really, -1.5 C (29 F) isn't that cold, but they just aren't remembering what cold feels like!

The sledding hill was really well done and although I didn't think it looked that big at first, I have to admit, I was a little nervous when I got up there and sat down in that sled with Jane. This is Jack and Jeff going down their 2nd time.

We were all grateful they had human bumpers at the end for the big Farangs who got going too fast! Jack loved this and I think he'll really like doing the real thing this winter, especially with soft, freshly fallen snow.

It was at this point that Jack realized that these cheap little boots they give you don't do much at all. Even with socks on, I could feel the cold through them! And, soon after this, we realized Jack didn't even put on his socks! No wonder he was FREEZING! He was just too excited about getting in there to put them on. Plus, the poor kid can't really even put socks on himself because we never wear socks, and all the ones he has are way too small, so they're extra tough! The phrase, "long, cold winter" kept coming to mind as we imagined reacclimatizing to Utah life in December. Ouch!

Jane enjoyed her one time down the sledding hill, but really just wanted to play in the snow. I had to watch her closely because she was determined to taste it. This girl's immune system is going to be SO strong after living here! She thought this igloo was the best.

Snow Town was what Scarlett was the most excited about. It was a lot of fun, but not the only fun thing about Dream World! It was kind of a mini Disneyland meets copyright infringement land. Add a little "tacky" in there and you've got one fun, foreign day out!

These little canoes were so adorable Jane went around and around with Scarlett, then again with Jack. The paddles weren't even attached, so occasionally you saw one floating down the "river" all by itself! Oops.

They had a fairytale land that was adorable. All the fun little houses from poems and classic stories, such as Snow Whote...

We recently watched The Sword in the Stone for our latest family movie party. They were thrilled to see one in the fairytale land. I love Jane's expressions.

I loved this giant in the ground. I know I've seen this somewhere before though, but couldn't place it. Vanessa, do you have something like this in DC?

This was the Giant's house from Jack and the Beanstalk. It was so well done. They had the magic harp, the golden eggs, and everything was huge. Even the bugs. It was fun to explore a little with Jack as the girls weren't too interested.

Jane wasn't too interested because she was eating her lunch. This was a large "chicken on a stick" (a staple here) that turned out to be pork. Luckily, Jane can't tell the difference!

The first ride we went on were these cars. Scarlett and Jack hopped into one together and I was a little worried about Jane all by herself, but she certainly didn't seem to mind. This girl LOVES rides, and with a mother like me, I'm sure we'll be good partners when she gets a little taller!

Jeff thought he just had to have a picture of this for his mom. Just to clarify, my mother-in-law doesn't have much tolerance for potty humor. The Hillman family likes to tease her about her phrase "no potty jokes!". But, when ALL of the bathroom signs look like this, how could we have let it go? What exactly are they going for here?

It's pretty common here to eat crepes as a snack, treat, or I guess you could call it a meal if you put dried pork and meat sauce on it like some people do here. This has proven to be an easy kid-friendly stomach filler that the kids are excited about. This time, they chose to put chocolate sauce and sprinkles on it. So... I guess that would be a treat.

We really enjoyed spending the day with Scarlett and Heather. It turned out to be a good mixture with the kids because Jack enjoyed doing some of the big rides with Jeff, while Heather and I took the girls to do what they enjoyed. Scarlett is the "big sister" for Jane here. Jane adores her and Scarlett plays the role very nicely. They hopped on this car ride and screamed like little girls everytime it went down a certain hill. It was hilarious and they were glowing. There was no line to speak of, so they stayed on for at least 20 minutes. The worker was just as tickled as they were to keep them on!

It was fun to have a day together with Scarlett and Heather again, although I am feeling like a nerd for not taking the chance to have Jeff take a picture of Heather and me together. We have so few, but we spend quite a bit of time together.

It will be hard to have Jack and Scarlett go to different schools in the fall, as it won't be as easy to get together. Everyone kind of goes their own way after K2 when they join in with the bigger schools. Since we'll be leaving in December, I didn't want to put Jack in a big school just for one term, when we have a smaller option very close to our apartment. He did a trial day at the new school to see how he liked it. It was nice for him to have a day to himself at school after being with Jane and me constantly for the last few weeks. The "honeymoon"period with Jane and Jack started wearing off this last week, so it came at a really good time! After I picked him up I asked him, "how did you like it? Would you like to go back?" He said, "TOMORROW!". He loved it, and I'm feeling good about having it within walking distance, and his class will only be 8-9 students. I'm interested to see how he'll handle going to the public school in January after having such a unique school experience here. Jack's proven himself to be extremely adaptable though, so I'm sure I have nothing to worry about!

Other events of the week... swimming! We have been swimming a LOT lately. Jack and Jane recently started lessons from a new teacher, "Uncle James". I was excited to have ONE swim lesson a week, and for my kids to do it together. Plus, it doesn't hurt that he just meets us at our pool which is super easy. He's got a whole different approach to teaching swim lessons that Jane's been doing, so I was a little nervous at first, but after lesson 3, I could see where he was going and I now have full confidence in him! He won my kids over the first day with games, toys, songs, and he even busted out a harmonica at one point. I was impressed with how he won Jane over so quickly (which is a little tough these days since she's very wary of strangers touching and playing with her, which happens all too often) and has already pushed them both beyond what they usually do. Jane was diving for Batman, and Jack swam the length of the pool (with a little help, of course), which was a HUGE confidence booster! Last Friday, the kids were SO exhausted after their 45 min. lesson, they both asked to take naps. Who can argue with that?

In an attempt to get the most out of our lessons, we're doing a lot of swimming in between. This day, Jack found his friend, Eleanor, downstairs, which is always a treat because we're never quite sure what days her nannies will bring her and her sisters down. We just take what we can get! She is an amazing swimmer, so it was good for Jack to see what kids can do!

Yes, this is Jane sleeping in her goggles. Maybe we're swimming too much? She LOVES them and now much prefers them to swimming without. I just didn't know she liked them this much. I went in to take them off of her, and she woke up a few minutes later, frantic because she couldn't find them!

I wish I could tell you that we took this last picture at some Hospital Family Day, but no. We spent last night in the ER because Jeff had a bad oil burn on his fingers. He was making fries (which he hasn't done in a LONG time), and apparently forgot to check the temperature before dumping them all in. I told him that baking them would be better for him! It was an unfortunate accident and he was in a lot of pain, so we took him in. This ER was absolutely ideal though. We just took our apartment tuk-tuk there (1 km) and there was no one there except nurses just waiting to recieve us! They took him right into the back while I took care of the Insurance stuff, and they immediately started treating him. It took a while before the pain injection kicked in, and they were worried about his low heart rate and blood pressure, so he had to lay down for a while being monitored. I think there were 5 nurses helping him at one point. Probably uncessary, but who wouldn't have wanted to help this handsome foreigner? (out of respect for the one in PAIN, I opted not to take photos!)

This nurse thought the kids might like a tour of their ambulances, so they were able to ask her about every item inside, and even witnessed them putting someone in the back. Why they were taking someone OUT of the hospital in the ambulance I don't know. She seemed sick, but was happy and smiling at the kids. Interesting.

Notice the dress Jane is wearing. Here's the story. We go to church every Sunday. Every Sunday, Jane leaves with something new that Dypu and Napa have brought for her. It started out as a bracelet. I think they gave her one each week for 2-3 weeks. One had a matching ring. She was in heaven. This is all amidst all the treats they have always brought her, of course. The next time they brought her a handbag that looks like a puffy, pink poodle. It is about the girliest thing I've ever seen, and she hardly puts it down. This week, they handed Jeff a bag with 2 dresses in it! They bought her DRESSES! These people spoil my child like I never could, and honestly, in some ways it's better that it's someone that isn't her MOM! I put this dress on her to try it on and she hasn't wanted to take it off since. It's the frilliest thing that has ever touched her body, and she can hardly stop looking at herself in the mirror. Girls are SO different than boys, and I'm pretty much loving having one of each! Napa emailed me today and apologized for spoiling Jane and was hoping it wasn't upseting me. She said that she and Dypu are excited to have children someday and hope they have one just like Jane. How nice of a compliment to Jane is that? They are the sweetest couple, and now that Dypu is legal, Jeff and I are really hoping we'll see them married before we leave Thailand!

So, to conclude with the burn treatment, Jeff is doing fine. They monitored him for about an hour, finally got him something strong enough for the pain, treated the burn (pinky and ring fingers), and sent him home with four prescriptions. Total cost: about $60 before insurance. So, we ended up paying about $6. Am I glad we went? You bet! Jeff slept well last night, which we didn't expect, but probably due to the pain meds and muscle relaxers. But, with the bandages he can't really type without pushing 3 keys at once, and his medicine makes him loopy. So, he's home today and I'm happy to have him! His office has a company clinic right there, so when he goes back, the nurse can check his burn each day and dress it properly until it's healed. It's nice to know it will be well taken care of and there's nothing to worry about. They really know how to do medical care here. It's no wonder people come here all the time for medical vacations. Amazing!