[marjo]

I never mentioned this on here before tonight (I posted about it on another thread just now) but on our 2nd trip I got a pulmonary embolism from the long plane ride (a bloodclot formed in my leg and moved up to my heart). I had to go to the hospital in Moscow because I got so sick and they didn't want to release me, so I had to sign a release form so they were not liable if I died on the plane ride home. But I did make it home and spent the first week home in the hospital, the doctors said it was a miracle I made it home alive. And I have never had surgery or been hospitalized before in my life, so this was such a freak thing to happen to me.