An update before the italy recap

Ok, so I am typing with one hand, which means:
a) we’re back from italy (although I can type from italy too! With one or two hands)
b) I had my surgery already

Italy was really fun, but it was cloudy and rainy most of the time we were there. We only got sunshine on the Sunday (a day after we arrived) and on the Sunday we left. We ate lots of great food, and desserts, and wine, saw friends, and had a chance to visit lots of interesting places, like Mount Etna (an active volcano), and Greek/roman ruins (in Agrigento). We did have a chance to dip our feet in the sea, and I was happy about that! I will write more details later (a recap hopefully not as long as the Paris one…).

We got back to reality late on Sunday night, and Monday was a busy day full of house work like laundry and cleaning, and cooking for the week so poor Gera doesn’t have to worry about that (although, I must confess I might have done that more for myself… haha). And today (Tuesday), I went in for my 15 minute surgery. Really, that’s about all it took!. It took longer to get dressed in that awful gown (where your butt shows!) than to get “squishy” removed (yes, I named it squishy!). So I was back home and my fingers were still numb (I had local anesthesia, and by local, they really mean just the palm of the hand!). It hurts a bit now, but I am fine. I will have a few more doctor visits before I can put the memory of “squishy” behind me, I’ll tell you how that goes.

I am having...

… a cyst! Haha. I have an alien growing in my hand, so after a couple of visits to the doctor, I am scheduled to have minor surgery on Feb 27th. For 10 days after that, I will not be able to do housework, like cleaning, or cooking or doing the dishes… I am sooo sad …NOT! Gera will help a lot, and we’ll have 10 days of pizza, sandwiches, brats and other no-fuss, easy-to-cook food (probably use paper plates too! Haha)

We are sooo excited to go to Italy! Finally, its only 5 days away. As for my planning, well, I’ve been better that the last trip (to Paris), but I still have a bit more to go. I am relying on the fact that the place is smaller and will require less complex planning. So far I think we’ll go to Mt. Etna, and Syracuse, besides doing the Taormina sights (ruins and stuff). I have booked a hotel on the beach in Giardini Naxos for the last couple of nights, it’ll be great! Now I need to start packing (OMG! What am I going to wear?). You can count on being fully updated after our return.

Gera is just getting over some serious illness, something like bronchitis or something. He’s been conferring long distance via skype with the other doctors in the family (well, the other MEDICAL doctors, dad, brother and sister-in-law), and he’s way better now. I think he’ll be good as new by Saturday. Now, lets just hope I didn’t get it…

Not much else going on… ah! and you have been saved from the last Paris post! I haven’t done that part yet (and probably wont, at least not anytime soon), so just know that:
“… we said Au revoir to the city of light and were safely on our way back to Zurich. And they lived happily ever after. The end”.