Waiting for the Peace Corps

Patience, flexibility, awareness and hope is just part of what it takes to be a Peace Corps Volunteer. Even now several months before I hope to leave I practice these. The Peace Corps is currently reviewing my medical forms very thoroughly. I forgot a few of the necessary items and so will get those to the Peace Corps as soon as I can. On Tuesday they called me, worried that I had an enlarged heart, because one of the X-rays taken when I went into the hospital for my appendectomy last January, showed a slightly enlarged heart. The X-ray was re-taken, a second X-ray from a different angle was also taken. My heart is not enlarged but now many of my friends ask me how I can go into the Peace Corps without a big heart. So even here it is patience, flexibility, awareness and hope.