Getting closer

At last, I almost got what I've been long waiting and wishing for, some of our personal fears have been defeated.

About two months ago we applied for a visa to Jordan. Thank god we got it, we got the visa and we were approved for entering Jordan, I still can't believe that this is possible; us getting to Jordan so that my wife could have a natural delivery with good medical care and overcome the medical disasters here (which I discussed in an earlier post) we got it because my in-laws signed a paper there to guarantee that we will return to Iraq otherwise they will be jailed and they will lose everything they have in Amman and for that we got approved.

And because we must reach Jordan by the beginning of my wife's ninth month of pregnancy and she should rest for at least another month, then a bigger challenge awaits me that is getting a leave for two months, once I got the visa I started working on that, I applied for two months with salary and it was rejected by the district's health manager despite that I deserve it because I have credit of 65 days of accumulating leave days (each month the employee have 3 days to take them as leaves and if he didn't take them it will be accumulated so that he could take them all at once) he rejected it saying that my wife can have delivery here and when I told him that I deserve more than 2 months for any reason, even if I wanted just to have some rest, he rejected the application again! I'm sure it's for personal reasons because of the dispute we had with him about the clinic's generator that he refused to fix (I discussed that in an earlier post), then I applied for two months without salary and he rejected the request for the third time because "you are needed in the clinic" as he wrote back despite that we are three dentists now with one dental chair that isn't even working. So after three weeks of the exhausting tries to get it done I finally gave up on that because he will never give me the leave no matter what I do or how hard I try.

I decided to go the ministry of health and see what can I do, wishing that I can get an order from above so that my district's health manager can't reject my request…I wanted to meet the minister and the guard told me that this isn't his business, I wanted to meet other officials in the ministry but my efforts weren't successful, as I was wandering in the ministry hloding the heaviest mountains in my chest and carrying the saddest expression on my face I decided to call my father and ask him if he knows anyone that could help me…I called him and he gave me a name and a number of a man who works in the ministry that might be able to do something as he said…I called him and he was very welcoming and told me where to find him, I went to him and he was a very nice man with some power, he said I can give you two months without salary that's the maximum I can do, It was great for me, at least it's a leave even if it's not paid.

I took the orders after finishing some application and took it to the district's health manager, I felt like I have defeated him which gave me a very good feeling.

Now I'm in the final stages of getting the leave (because Bureaucracy really suffocates in Iraq)… everything might look good but there is a bad side in all of that; I'll have no salary for two months, It's true that I'm in real need of the salary specially at this time but my desire for my baby to be born without complications and my wife's life and her health after delivery is much more important than the salaries.

If god wills, I'll be leaving to Amman within 10 days from now, wish me luck my dear friends and readers and I'd really appreciate the donations to compensate for the two months without payment and my salary loss, it would be greatly appreciated and I'd be really thankful.

Thank you in advance