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Staying busy

Sunday, September 30th, 2012

Sept 6th -Sept 30th

We have been home now for almost a month. It seems hard to believe that we are not in San Jose that I have managed to maintain and be healthy here at home! I have to say that I am still not 100% back in the game but I am getting closer every day.

Recently we have discovered that the antibiotic that I am taking can interact with one of my seizure drugs and actually cause me to have more seizures. Unfortunately that is the one thing I have been having almost daily now is seizures. Mom had called the neuro to ask and he reported back with this information. My parents discussed it and figured in the end it was better that I am infection free and that I won’t be on this antibiotic forever although it does feel that way sometimes! I have just now completed six weeks and have a month left to go! So we take the good with the bad and thankfully the seizures don’t last too long and are not affecting my therapy.

I have been enjoying so much my workouts with Irene. She is so incredible with me. We have much fun together! I have been a bit more floppy than normal but then I am better than I was a month ago! She has so much patience with me and work so well with me. I am ever so happy that we work so well together and have become such great friends. I am getting super excited about my party on the 20th of October! I just know I am going to be healthy and strong. These last three weeks of September have flown by before you know it I am going to be on an airplane and on my way to Texas! Si Dios quiere!!

Love Malia

Earthquake!!!

Sunday, September 30th, 2012

September 5th 8:42 am

Mom was finishing up breakfast with me, I was still in bed lounging around. Dad was packing up and getting us ready to go home! Yep, we were able to leave! My blood work came back great and my urine culture came back negative in both labs! We were ready to head back home! This may have been one of our quickest trips ever! Ok, I will get to the excitement now….

Mom and me were hanging out when all of a sudden the bed started to move ever so slowly, then dad yells at my mom and says Earthquake get Malia and get out of the house! Mom scoops me up like a sack of potatoes and then this eery growling begins like a lion protecting its den, then the walls began to shake and move and the trees were swaying, the pool had waves in it and to be honest it did not feel if it was ever going to stop! Scary!!!!!!!! It was the longest 25seconds ever!!! El Bolero had no damage, the electricity was still on so we turned on the tv to hear that Costa Rica had just had an 7.6 magnitude earthquake and the epicenter was iin Samara, on the Nicoya Peninsula about 50miles from our home!! Yikes! All communications were down and mom and dad had no way of talking to anybody back at home. Later that morning we finally got a phone call through to find out Luisa, and Bismark, were okay and so were our dogs Selva and Indio! The house had no damage and our nursery and store was okay with just a few broken items. We were so lucky. We had friends lose a home in Mal Pais.

We changed plans and decided to stay another night at El Bolero, there was no electricity at home anyway and we were not sure when it was going to come back on! It made more sense to stay where we were although mom and dad were itching to get back to check on things, but safety first. Kiki and Lourdes brought Irene out to El Bolero and we hung out a bit then they were on the way and I had therapy with Irene in the afternoon. It seemed almost surreal that everything was back to normal after a 7.6 earthquake! Costa Rica in general had no severe damage and there were no deaths. So all in all, we all were very lucky.

The next morning we were out the door and on the road by 7:30am. We did not notice any damage while driving or landslides. When we arrived at the ferry the ocean was a dead calm. There were no waves and the day was brilliant not a cloud in the sky. We arrived home before noon, and the dogs were ecstatic to see us and only a few things broke in our house and the store. We kept feeling aftershocks from the big earthquake. Definitely keeps you on the edge of your seat…. I well, am stoked to be back home and not having to stay in San Jose!!! I can just feel that everything is gonna be alright! 😉
Love Malia