It's been a while since I did any updates and so much has happened. I'm not going to fill in any gaps just yet but I will bring things up to speed. Much has happened very quickly that has changed our plans.
In a nut shell, my Dad is prepped and ready for open heart surgery as I write. About a week ago and totally out of the blue, he had a heart attack while out walking. He managed to get home, call his doctor who said call 111 and the rest is history. Dad has shown no signs of heart issues. His BP is great, he's been keeping active as usual so it was quite a shock to get a call on messenger to see my Dad in a hospital bed. Apparently he has a 100% blockage on the right side of his heart and the left has severe blockages.
It's 3:55am as I write and although I am not sleeping I am also not fretting. I know God's got it all under control. We just pray that the surgery goes without a hitch and that recovery is quick and without complications.
In saying all this, our plans have changed. We had decided to stay on for another year in Bangladesh. We applied for a 1 year visa extension but were only given a 3 month extension until the end of December. We did think we would apply again for a further extension after December but decided not to after the news of my Dad. It feels the right thing to come home. I want to be there with my parents now as I'm the only child. I feel a sense of responsibility to be there as my parents age and although they are not your typical oldies and I certainly don't need to coddle them, I feel the need to be closer.
We have tickets booked to depart on the 8th December. It's an interesting time to fly with Covid so prevalent in the world right now. Flights are not easy to get back to NZ unless you have copious amounts of money and even then, flights are limited. I feel so blessed to get the booking we did because a few weeks ago it would have been really hard to find a booking. The double blessing is that all going to plan, we will be out of our 14 day isolation on the 24th Dec. Our eldest daughter is also coming over from Aussie so we will be together as a family and so for that, I'm extremely grateful.
So what about Bangladesh? We still want to be a part of what's going on here and we can do some things from a distance. Once Covid has settled we will look at options of shorter visits back and forth. Bangladesh is not finished fo us, it just looks a bit different.
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