Peace Out Medical Guy

So I received a reply on the email I sent to my Medical Contact about what I should be expecting now that I have mailed off all of my medical forms. Below is the response:

Please note that it can take anywhere from 10-20 days for the kit to be entered into your medical record.  Mail is screened at an off-site security facility (as is all government mail) and takes a little while to actually get here.

Your next step is to simply allow us time to review your kit.  Expect an update in 4-6 weeks.

Pre-Service Unit

Greg no longer works for Pre-Service.

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Translation: 

You are going to wait, and then when you are done with that you are going to wait some more. Don't get your panties in a bunch, we will be taking our sweet time since we only have a bazillion other applications that came in before yours.

Pre-Service Unit

p.s. your buddy don't work here no mo'

What the heck?!?! Greg the Peace Corps guy peaced out on me? :( He was so helpful and comforting in his emails, and I swear the only person I have spoken to within the organization, other than the campus reps, that has treated me like a person (as can be seen from the automaton nature of this email.) Don't get me wrong, I know that Peace Corps is huge, and I didn't really expect anything different, and they have always been professional, but it was nice to have a person to talk to who was willing to explain things to me on the level of a two year old...which is what I need. 

So farewell Greg the Medical Dude!!  I wish you big and wonderful things in your life ahead and hope you in a happier place. :)

~Claire

Really Done!/ A Peace Corps Birthday

All of the paper work has gone off to the office in DC!!! The office should be receiving everything on Tuesday, and I have already written to my medical contact officer to check and see what I should be doing at this point other than waiting. Hoping to hear back from him today, and I will post whatever he sends. I guess I just wait now. I have read that only 15% of people get through their medical clearance on the first go around, but I am hoping since I requested the extra paper work before I sent anything in, and because I sent in annoying amounts of records, that maybe I won't have to fill anything else out. Fingers crossed the next thing I get in the mail should be my invitation.

On a more birthday note, I turned 22! The day was very much relaxed since I had just traveled back from Philly where the Dad Vail Regatta is held every year with the MSU Rowing team. On Monday night I went back to Ann Arbor after work to spend some time with my family and they woke me up on Tuesday in traditional Swedish birthday style. The Swedes like to wake people up super early with cake and gifts in bed, and our family has been doing this since I was little, so it was really nice to come home and have that moment with them.

Pretty much everything on my birthday list was very "Peace Corpsy" so I received: a leatherman handy tool, full swiss army knife, eye glass repair kit, two books and a short wave radio. I also got a really beautiful necklace from my Mom that has a compass rose charm and then small beads in the birth stone colors of each of my family members. She gave one to my sister as well, and said it was to help guide us home when we were far away (my sister is going to college in a different state next year.)

I may have become a bit weepy...a little bit. I'm going to miss my family so much, and I think the only way I'm going to over come that is knowing that their love for me isn't confined to our house, and in fact can stretch over oceans. I love my family more than anything, and I am so blessed to have each one of them.

Love,
Claire

DONE!

Okay, sending everything in tomorrow, since at this point I am only waiting on the last doctor to return her paperwork. I think I am going to over night it, I know it won't make much of a difference, but it would make my mind feel better. :)
~Claire

So close...

Polio shot was taken care of yesterday and I received my blood work and dental xrays in the mail (via Dad) as well. Only thing left to do is fax these sheets to my foot and ankle guy and my family practitioner and I should be good to go!

Oh yeah...there is also that whole "graduate on Saturday" thing...woot!

~Claire