After a two and a half hours fly to Paris and another eight hours to Guadeloupe, we landed very tired in our wonderful destination, but very excited about it. We arrived at our first Airbnb. It was wooow!! I was speechless. A beautiful house, with an ultra-large living room, spacious and beautiful rooms, a wonderful garden and an impressive swimming pool.
We spent some wonderful days and evenings there. During the day we walked a lot, enjoyed the sun on some beautiful beaches, rented 2 cars and started exploring the island.
After several days we went to another island, a smaller one, which was our favorite, Marie Galante, where there were friendly people, very calm and relaxed and a very safe, like in Romania countryside where you can leave the boom in front of the door just to let people you are not at home :)). Also here we rented a beautiful house, with an infinity pool on the edge of a hill, from where you could see the ocean. Wonderfuuuul !!!
Then, the third island was waiting for us to discover its beauties, but what I enjoyed most about it, was that we walked through the jungle, reached a waterfall, climbed a volcano. So yes, we liked it. After 2 weeks we realized that we are very sorry to leave. We liked everything there. It has been our favorite destination of all so far.
Just arrived in the country, we were still thinking about the wonderful Guadeloupe and we were regretting that we left. We talked a few times and decided quickly enough to sell everything we had and move there. Yes, only the two of us. No plans, no jobs, no friends, nothing concrete. And you know why? Because we enjoyed living there, we felt good, we were relaxed, we loved the country, the people, the ideas, the concepts and most importantly I didn’t feel like I was sick anymore. All the pain had ceased, which had not happened lately. It was pretty much the decision of Bogdan, my beloved husband (I also wanted to leave the country anyway a couple of times). And he made this decision thinking of me, seeing how good I felt there and without thoughts and stress. And he said that this would be the is the right life for me, to feel healthy and to stay like that for all my life.
We announced our friends and family about our plans. No one could believe it. Many of them were quite scared that they will never see us again, others happy that they would come to visit us:). My parents were pretty upset, but I told them I won’t give up until I’ll take them there and my brother, too. For now, they are not too sure of this move, but I am convinced that once they see how wonderful Guadeloupe is and how happy we are there, with a simpler but healthier life (because there is no big pollution in that island, you take the fruits directly from the tree, you fish, so you can have it all the time fresh), they will surely come jumping in one leg. : D
But until then, we have to sell our apartment, 2 cars, 1 land and a motorcycle and to do an ultrasound or something, because it is not a joke to move to Guadeloupe with a big tumor.
I had a delay of a month, almost two until I had a CT scan. But the day came and there was no going back and with a fear that I cannot describe and with my “tail between my legs” :P, I took all the courage I had and I went to do the CT.
The result was worse than I had imagined. The crazy tumor had doubled in volume and after all of this, the doctor had found something suspicious on my liver as well. Oh, God!!! See what the stress does, Ioana ???? That’s it, let’s see how we can solve this.
I went to a few doctors, everyone’s opinion was to have surgery immediately. I knew that now it is no longer a joke and that I should have the surgery until it is not too late. So, in the end, I had no results from my last 3 years of diet? Why? Because I was stressed, because I was scared and everything I put in my body, everything that was healthy and good turned into acidity because of my way of thinking. God, and it was so difficult!!! I have had my beautiful and good periods, but lately only stress. Plus, I already had enough of my diet and I could no longer tolerate it.
In a short time, I found out about a doctor from Vienna who was coming to Bucharest for second opinion consultations and I really wanted to see him. He was my last hope. I had studied about him before I got to Bucharest, I was excited about it. It was exactly what I needed. He was the person that will tell me I won’t need surgery. I still had hope. But it was the exact opposite. He told me that I need to have the surgery within a month because I had a very large tumor and that there were already risks, it was advisable to have surgery in Vienna with the best specialists.
We started gathering money from friends, we sold the car and we managed to raise the amount necessary for the operation, which was 25,000 euros and … ..the surgery was next on my list.
A new chapter of my life…