my toe

I wrote an email to 'Senior Minister Pastor Bandura' (aka - Jason Bandura) because I'd read in the bulletin online (which i'm happy i'm able to read!) that my toe was of concern and under 'prayer requests'. Both Craig and i laughed at that - especially that it had been in there for 2 weeks in a row. Just seemed funny how my toe was healing on the other side of the world but the bulletin didn't have this info in it yet.

we did go back to the doctor 2 weeks ago and found that more meds and another shot in the hip would treat it. But the Dr. kept asking us what our Director's wife's name was. He used a word for 'wife' that we didn't know - so it took us awhile to understand what he needed from us. Finally we all came to an understanding and we were on our way to the same pharmacy we went to a few days earlier.
We saw the same pharmacist who was eager to put into practice those medical terms he'd agonizingly memorized in school - and apparently was taught to speak them in volumes above a normal speaking voice. I really had to try hard not to laugh. he did great, really great with his english, he just spoke really loudly. at one point he was explaining how to take the pills and advised me not to take them on a 'blank' stomach.
When we first walked into the pharmacy, he was all smiles and glad to see us back again - free english conversation and helping a sick person out all in the same day. he took my prescription and asked us to take a seat. He quickly came back. He asked if this was my preseciption - we thought he was confused if it was for myself or maybe for Craig. We answered that it was for me. But, he said, this is not in your name. This is not your name, correct? This is a Korean woman's name. He name is Lee, ___ ___. We were really thrown off guard, not quite understanding how a prescription we had just brought in from the Dr.s office a block away could not be for me. When he told us her name, we said - oh yes! that's our director! we were happy we had figured out what he was asking and that we knew who the name belonged to. He said, ahhhh! and went to fill the prescription.
As he went, we finally clued into what was going on. The Dr. wanted to put our medication under our Director's wife's name to save us money - only, we had no idea that he was doing that. Just another one of those things that happens in Korea.
When he came to explain how to properly take the drugs, he always said 'your director needs to...' 'your director may feel side effects...' and so on. Later Craig commented that he either thought our director had asked us to pick up medicine for his wife, or he was playing along with what the Dr. had done. After all, if we were picking up medicine for our Korean director, wouldn't it have been easier to write them out in Korean rather than write them and explain them to us in English?
we were also told that the pills i was to take for the next month were very EXPENSIVE! $10. hmmm.

This that just don't seem to happen in Canada happen in Korea.

And yes, my toe is getting much better. Back to 4 days a week of Taekwondo.