Recovery

Well today was finally the day I felt more like myself! The past week and a half has been hell and I am not exaggerating. After my surgery on Thursday it has been absolute misery and pain. Missing a week of work, not eating for a week, taking percocet every 3 hours is a recipe for disaster and that is exactly what it was. Things are finally looking up! Now we will just wait and see what caused this 7mm kidney stone! What a monster it was!


As for an update on my life: Still looking for an apartment and I am soooo sick of it! I have probably looked at 30+ places and it is so stressful, time consuming and draining. I hope that a place I am looking at in the Avenues on Tuesday will be the one! I am living with a friend from Utah State, Amy, and I am really excited about it. I can't wait to be in a singles ward and start meeting new people and doing things around Salt Lake. Park City is definitely the worst place for young LDS girls! I am just ready to decorate my own place, throw theme parties (so excited to throw a Halloween party) and just live on my own again. I have moved out several times, but this time it is as a graduated student which has been pretty weird! I will keep you posted on what happens with the living situation! Just pray that I will find a place this week! I keep praying and praying and things have felt perfect and soo good with some of the places and then things fall through and I am so sad and bummed out. So prayers are needed thanks!


XOXO, A

Trauma, Trauma, Trauma

Traumatic is a good way to describe the past 2 days! Here is a little bit of explanation! I go into work Tuesday morning perfectly content and pain free! I repeat pain free. Then the pain starts to come in my abdomen/back area around 11:30, no big deal just thought I had been sitting at my desk for too long so I got up and walked around. That didn't really help so I sat back down and it gradually got a little worse. So another brilliant idea came to me around 1:00, I'll go to lunch and lay down on the grass maybe that will help? No it got WORSE! and I am mean the worse pain I have experienced in my lower right side of my abdomen. I called my mom laughing/crying, not being able to breathe. She looked up symptoms for your appendix and all of mine hit right on the dot, but she didn't know and told me to call my sister, Lisa. And that was it, Lisa confirmed that I needed to go to the doctor right away even if it wasn't my appendix. So back to work I went barely being able to think, sweaty/clamy and embarrassed. They must think I have serious issues over the past few weeks... Everything just seems to be happening, but anyways on to my story. At 3:00 I was at Dr. Berman's office and the ER by 4:30 getting cat scans and morphine! Oh morphine how I love you. After about 45 minutes of drinking some stuff to light up my organs I was under the cat scan machine getting checked out. Dr. Kemp (he was a very good looking doctor) came in, showed us the scans and said "it isn't your appendix, see... but when we move this around (the picture on the computer) BAMMM! Kidney stone!" And it was a really really big kidney stone, you could see it plain as day. It is 6.5-7mm which is really big. Usually they deem 6mm stones passable, but mine is too big to pass. So after lots of pain killers, pee strainers, hospitals and the urologists I am going in for surgery today at 1:30 to get blasted by the "stone blaster" joy! Send me good thoughts, it has been a crazy two days.

Shoes, Shoes, Shoes, Shoes

Ok so I have a thing for shoes and for clothes and for everything fashion oriented! Seeing I have this little bit of a problem, my closet has become an overly stuffed, exploding place and I just couldn't take it anymore! Three hours and three garbage sacks later, I had cleaned out my closet, my desk and under my bed. It sure felt liberating, but is it bad that it also made me feel like now I can go out and buy more clothes? More like I need to and I should go out and buy more clothes cause now I just don't have anything! Pathetic! I did learn that I have quite the collection of high heels: black ones, blue ones, yellow ones, red ones, green ones, tan/nude ones and gold ones! Hmm what do I need, I know grey ones!

I have so many high heels that when I lined them up and tried to take a picture they didn't all fit! Jezz!

    

Happy Sunday!

Happy Sunday Everyone!

ps. I got bangs! What do you think?

Oh Weather Divine!

I just have to tell you all how much I love this time of year and the weather that comes a long with it. This past week has been absolutely divine and I love it! August and September are some of my favorite months, it's starting to feel like fall and people are excited about school starting (not for me!) and everyone seems to be out and about doing things! Oh it just makes me smile! I also love that the weather isn't quite so hot and up in Park City you starting needing a hoodie or light jacket at night... I do love my hoodies! It signifies the start of football and soccer season, what more could I ask for! Basically I have been in heaven the last week enjoying all that this time of year has to offer!