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pyesetzOn August 28th, at 4:59 PM, I received an email from my immigration lawyer: my request for permanent residence in Canada was approved! All that remained was medical exams and updated police certificates.
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stuffedwithfluf received a phone call from her doctor: the lump removed from her breast turned out to be malignant. She needs radiation treatments and there was a 30% chance that chemo would be needed. Also this makes her ineligible to enter Canada for five years.
Right now Wifey is under general anesthesia, having her lymph nodes examined to see if the cancer has metastasized. Hopefully I can get this posted before the results arrive, in case the news will be bad.
So, 2½ years of fighting with the US government for the right to leave this "free" country, ½ a year getting an application together, a year waiting for Canada to decide to let me in, and now I'm "medically quarantined" in the USA for another five years. I'll just mention "Book of Job" here without quoting from it.
It's hard to believe I'm quarantined in this loony-bin. Recently President Bush said that it was unacceptable to think that the behavior of the US was in any way similar to that of Al Qaeda. So the States are now a country in which there are officially-unacceptable thoughts. The Bush government has admitted to spying on its own citizens without warrants, torturing them in Cuba and Syria, holding them indefinitely without charges, and in general acting like the former Soviet Union. I studied the USSR in my youth; it was not a country I ever expected to find myself living in, and certainly I never expected that I would be medically prohibited from leaving such a place.
The health situation has sort of cooled my interest in getting another full-time job, since I may need to spend rather a lot of time over the next few months shuttling Wifey from one doctor's appointment to another. I still have the job with 𝔾, but it doesn't pay enough even if I work at it for 40 hours a week. And these last few weeks I haven't felt like working at it that much.
Update: Nope, didn't manage to post before the news arrived. Her lymph nodes are clear.
At 5:05 PM that day,
stuffedwithfluf received a phone call from her doctor: the lump removed from her breast turned out to be malignant. She needs radiation treatments and there was a 30% chance that chemo would be needed. Also this makes her ineligible to enter Canada for five years.Right now Wifey is under general anesthesia, having her lymph nodes examined to see if the cancer has metastasized. Hopefully I can get this posted before the results arrive, in case the news will be bad.
So, 2½ years of fighting with the US government for the right to leave this "free" country, ½ a year getting an application together, a year waiting for Canada to decide to let me in, and now I'm "medically quarantined" in the USA for another five years. I'll just mention "Book of Job" here without quoting from it.
It's hard to believe I'm quarantined in this loony-bin. Recently President Bush said that it was unacceptable to think that the behavior of the US was in any way similar to that of Al Qaeda. So the States are now a country in which there are officially-unacceptable thoughts. The Bush government has admitted to spying on its own citizens without warrants, torturing them in Cuba and Syria, holding them indefinitely without charges, and in general acting like the former Soviet Union. I studied the USSR in my youth; it was not a country I ever expected to find myself living in, and certainly I never expected that I would be medically prohibited from leaving such a place.
The health situation has sort of cooled my interest in getting another full-time job, since I may need to spend rather a lot of time over the next few months shuttling Wifey from one doctor's appointment to another. I still have the job with 𝔾, but it doesn't pay enough even if I work at it for 40 hours a week. And these last few weeks I haven't felt like working at it that much.
Update: Nope, didn't manage to post before the news arrived. Her lymph nodes are clear.
