Road Queen

PennyLane, sorry I haven't been posting for awhile. I am now living in the sunny beaches of Baghdad - there just isn't a lake at the beach.

I have a worldwide medical clearance. I do not know of any reason whyyou would need to be close to medical for evaluation. I had some esophagus issues last year and flew to South Africa. They were not familiar with the band but I told them I wanted a barium swallow, which they did. I sent my xrays with someone returning to the US for my dr to look at. There was no issue with my band. I just needed to get off doxycycline for anti-malaria pills and I took medicine for acid-reflux for awhile.

I have my band set a little lower than I would if I was living in the US . I am careful. And I know if something is stuck that I can do the down-ward facing dog (or whatever they call it in yoga) and get rid of it.

I would not worry about it messing up your clearance. Obviously, I am in Baghdad with it so they don't consider it an issue. (BTW - I am a US Treasury contractor - currently working at the Embassy Office of the Treasury Attache)

If you have any more questions, please contact me. I have better email here than I ever did in Malawi.