Comments on: Back behind my desk http://ianbek.kg/?p=19401 Observations from an expat Sat, 29 Nov 2014 08:38:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.5 By: Guest http://ianbek.kg/?p=19401&cpage=1#comment-47812 Thu, 09 Oct 2014 13:45:54 +0000 http://ianbek.kg/?p=19401#comment-47812 I am delighted to hear that you are back on the road to recovery.
I am also sure that you will take the advice given by the doctors and give yourself time to make a full and lasting recovery to good health.

]]> By: Guest http://ianbek.kg/?p=19401&cpage=1#comment-47295 Tue, 07 Oct 2014 06:54:36 +0000 http://ianbek.kg/?p=19401#comment-47295 Sorry to know about your forced hospital visit.
Wish you soon recovery from surgery operation.
It is always interesting to read your articles, please keep writing.
Take care,

]]> By: Guest http://ianbek.kg/?p=19401&cpage=1#comment-47250 Tue, 07 Oct 2014 02:36:14 +0000 http://ianbek.kg/?p=19401#comment-47250 Hi, Ian,

I’ve been wondering why you kept silent for a while. Now I know. So, you’ve been operated on in Bishkek and survived! Does it mean that the health care system in KG is OK or was your body strong enough to survive the surgery there? Anyways, I’m glad to learn that you’re recovering. Hopefully, there’ll be no more complications. Many thanks for the updates! All my family are sending their best wishes to you. By the way, there’s one Brit in Russia who’s been living there for over 20 years and has become quite popular on Russian TV. You can read about him here:
http://m.kp.ru/daily/26211.2/3095527/

]]> By: Guest http://ianbek.kg/?p=19401&cpage=1#comment-47049 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 01:57:25 +0000 http://ianbek.kg/?p=19401#comment-47049 wishing you a very good recovery – you were missed.

]]> By: Guest http://ianbek.kg/?p=19401&cpage=1#comment-46923 Sun, 05 Oct 2014 07:46:50 +0000 http://ianbek.kg/?p=19401#comment-46923 good to hear that your health is improving – it made me think well of the Kyrgyz health system though; here you would be out the door a day or two after the operation – no time and no bed-space for languishing. My niece in Adelaide had a baby last year and went home that afternoon! It’s true that her husband was at home but even so…

Teachers in Kyrgyzstan have it tough by the sound of it – when I was in Cambodia, I was told that teachers sell pens, pencils, paper, chewing gum etc to the students to make up for low wages. A taxi driver told me that his children’s teacher had waited some years for a transfer to the city – city schools are popular because the students’ families are usually wealthier and the students can afford to buy more meaning the teachers’ income is higher. Puts things in perspective!

]]> By: Guest http://ianbek.kg/?p=19401&cpage=1#comment-46887 Sun, 05 Oct 2014 02:30:41 +0000 http://ianbek.kg/?p=19401#comment-46887 Thank you for your Postcard from Bishkek.

Glad to read that you have recovered again — at least largely!

Hope things go well in Kyrgyzstan — or at least somehow well.

Wish you a complete recovery soon
and good luck!

]]> By: Guest http://ianbek.kg/?p=19401&cpage=1#comment-46886 Sun, 05 Oct 2014 02:29:56 +0000 http://ianbek.kg/?p=19401#comment-46886 Hi Ian, Can you add me to your distribution list? Your insights would be very good for me to know! And I hope you feel better!

]]> By: Guest http://ianbek.kg/?p=19401&cpage=1#comment-46885 Sun, 05 Oct 2014 02:28:33 +0000 http://ianbek.kg/?p=19401#comment-46885 I wondered what had happened to the weekly bulletin ;-) I am so sorry to hear you suffered appendicitis and know well the pain involved.
I pray for your speedy recovery and hope all goes well now.

]]> By: Guest http://ianbek.kg/?p=19401&cpage=1#comment-46884 Sun, 05 Oct 2014 02:27:39 +0000 http://ianbek.kg/?p=19401#comment-46884 Wishing you a complete, speedy recovery!

I have been missing you!

]]> By: Guest http://ianbek.kg/?p=19401&cpage=1#comment-46883 Sun, 05 Oct 2014 02:25:45 +0000 http://ianbek.kg/?p=19401#comment-46883 Ian, hope all is well now. Thanks for retaking the writing process and giving us a glimpse of the reality back home.

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