Intro
I was 20 years old when I had my right hip replaced. I had just returned from a semester abroad and was in excruciating pain. I had been diagnosed with Arthritis at 16, a side effect from the radiation treatment and chemotherapy I had received as an infant. I'm not exactly sure how I survived my travels in Europe while I was studying abroad, I must have been going on pure adrenaline. Four months of traipsing around Europe, and when I got back home I could barely make it upstairs to the living room. When I got back to the states I went to a local doctor, hoping he would prescribe me something slightly more powerful than the Advil my doctor at Mayo Clinic had prescribed me prior to my trip to Europe. The local doctor took one look at my x-ray and told me I should have gotten my hip replaced when I was diagnosed with Arthritis, 4 years earlier. Since then I've gotten my left hip replaced. And, since then, I've traveled the world many times over. A world traveler, who sets off metal detectors everywhere she goes. In 2007, I traveled to Ukraine, where I spent 9 months teaching English as a Second Language. Then, in 2009, I moved to South Korea, spending 14 months teaching ESL once again. These are the emails from my past and, since I won't be stopping any time soon, my present travels.
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