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To those of you who are diligent followers of our blog and journey, you know that Kyle had been feeling sick shortly before finals week last semester. He started feeling better about a week into break and started feeling bad again shortly into our visit to St. Lucia and has not felt any relief since then. His biggest issue is his constant headache and cloudy vision. We feel that while medical help is possible here in Dominica, it may take an eternity and we're better off to go home, to Phoenix, and get things checked out. We leave this afternoon in will arrive Thursday morning. Obviously we wish we had gone home during the break, when he had the time off, but as they say "hindsight is 20/20".

This was a very difficult decision for Kyle and I to make, for school reasons, but we are confident that getting medical help is the best thing in the long run. He can be stubborn and thought about pushing through, but the voice of reason (me) knocked some sense into him. We don't know how long we'll be in the valley, obviously the shorter the visit the better and at some point, if we are there for more than a week or so, we'll have to make the decision to take the semester off and start back up in January. Yes, it would be a small set back, but we both believe that everything happens for a reason and God is with us. Please keep us in your prayers through this chaotic and stressful time.