I went in on Friday just planning on a basic blood test and a glucose intolerance test. My sister, Priscilla, very kindly met me there--taking time out of her super-busy schedule to "hold my hand". Eventually we met up with a doctor and I was able to get the tests. They hasseled us a little about the glucose intolerance test, but after we met with this doctor she arranged for everything. She was definitely an answer to prayer. They didn't find anything really unusual after the basic tests (I am slightly anemic), so she ordered several other tests for me and set up an appointment for Saturday for a gastroscopy. That was to help discover why I am anemic. I hadn't planned on staying in Kyiv Friday night, but went home with my sister and came back in the next morning with them (they had a wedding to attend, sorry I couldn't make it Lyena!). Let me tell you, gastroscopies are NOT fun. :D But it could have been worse. They didn't find much unsual in that either. So now I am waiting till the end of the week to get the rest of my test results.
So, that is a praise and a prayer answer and request all wrapped up in one. :) Praise that we met up with this doctor and she really is trying to be helpful and search out the options. She has prescribed some medicines for me to take (including iron) and I would appreciate prayer that they will give me that extra boost that I need. Also that she'll know what to do after the test results come in on Friday. Thankfully, she said I can just call her for the results and don't have to go back into Kyiv for them unless she wants more tests.
Another praise is that I had the finances to do this. It cost less than $400, including the meds, but that would have been rough for me, except that I have been saving up some money every month for just such a time as this. I've never been able to save "against the future" before, and for me it was just God's provision that I have been able to and that the savings that I had from that more than covered the expenses. It was nice not to have to worry about that.
And just for fun here are a couple of pictures of the train station where I catch my marshrutkas back to Rivne when I go into Kyiv:
This is the Orthodox church that was built just outside the train station a few years ago. The marshrutka's park in the parking lot of the church, from what I can tell, but maybe it is actually the train station's parking lot.
This is the North Terminal of the central train station in Kyiv. It was redone a few years ago with this modern look. You can see all the city buses (marshrutkas) and the ones to the airport all lined up. The South Terminal is a little more traditional, I'll have to remember to get a picture of it next time I head to Kyiv.
And this is my marshrutka that I ride back and forth to Rivne and Kyiv. The company is called "Crazy Turtles" (and yes, sometimes I really think they are crazy, but turtles they are not!--we can now cover the 200 mile distance in four hours, a few years ago it took five or six), hence the turtle on the window. I prefer to use this company as they seem to be the most reliable schedule wise.
And just for fun. This is my nice, Ellie reading me a bedtime story (her bedtime, not mine). It was about trains, but I don't remember her version actually having any trains in it, as a matter of fact, it sounded remarkably like the story we had just read before it! :D
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