Moving To Teach Abroad While I`m Healthy

[davyb]

:depressed: :depressed: so for the longest i wanted to teach abroad but i never got a chance. right now i`m in grad school but i`m completely burnt out on it. last semester i had to spend 10 days in the hospital. and it completely wrecked my semester, but right now i don`t care, i`m supposed to leave for spain in august. does anyone think that this could be a bad idea? i`m a little nervous about going there.

 

[Kev]

"so for the longest i wanted to teach abroad but i never got the chance" Pretty much says it all right there. So, you're a little nervous. It's not like you're going to teach at the antartic circle, where you'll be snowbound for 10 months of the year. Right? right

All of life is chance. Staying put won't guarrantee you won't experience a bad flare. going won't guarrnatee you'll get ill. all not going guarrantees is that you pass up the opportunity that you thought you'd never get the chance to have. I hope you go, and have a blast... Live the life you want to live, it's the only life you have

 

[D Bergy]

Go for it. You will always regret it if you do not.

While you are there, find out how they treat Crohn's disease over there. Maybe they have a better approach. Or not.

I will be waiting for a full report..... Just kidding.

D Bergy

 

[mikeyarmo]

It is not hard to believe that your health would be worst under the stressful conditions of being a grad student than by fulfilling a dream overseas. I see no reason not to go for it, as long as you prepare properly.

According to the CCFC, the ACCU is the Crohn's and Colitis group located in Spain. Try contacting them at the e-mail provided below to find out information like which hospitals in Spain can treat people with IBD (for emergency purposes only of course) and if you can get the medication you may require if you are there.

Asociación de Enfermos de Crohn y Colitis Ulcerosa (ACCU)
C/ Hileras 4, 4o, 6 y 7
28013 Madrid
Phone/Fax: + 34 (91) 542 63 26
E-mail: [email protected]

 

[Dekar]

put it this way, if you don't go, ur gonna regret it anyways. might as well go and regret it there with crohns but appreciate that you're in spain at the same time!!


usually when i try my hardest to ignore crohn's even at the most painful moments, when i try to go back and remember things i did i normally i don't remember crohns being involved even though it was always there.

sry if that makes no sense, im so tired righ tnow , gl if you go bro

 

[lizziecee]

I lived in southern Spain from 1985 to 1993 and had a number of Crohn's flares including a severe rectal haemorrhage due to a burst crypt abscess in the small intestine. ( have had Crohn's since 1970.) I went to a private hospital in Malaga as Spain was not in the EC then and we were not entitled to the free Spanish health service. The gastro used to come and see me with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. They did however put me on IV steroids and was in for 8 days. They wouldn't let me leave until we had paid the bill, some $14,000 in cash. Go figure! Eventually I realised I was not getting good treatment and the communication problem was difficult. In the end my GP, who did speak English as he was born of French parents in Morocco, advised me to repatriate to England, which I did. I have no wish to go back, even for a holiday. It was like a third world country, maybe it is better today but I wouldn't bank on it. I got Leishmaniasis from a stray dog and flew back to England at least 6 times for a diagnosis, even though the disease is endemic amongst dogs in southern Spain and doctors should have been able to diagnose it properly. I was eventually diagnosed by the School for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in London, given the appropriate antibiotic and was cured within 7 days.