I give up

Everytime I have walked into the Cowell Health Center I have come out with something new... mono... strep...tonsilitus... what made me think this visit was going to be any different. My left tonsil is infected. It had a huge absys on it that would need to be taken off. So i found a ride with an amazing friend named Kelsey and we went to a Ear/Nose/Throat specialist. My doctor warned me to take to valium before i got there which is always concerning. But after talking to Janet I took the pills and before long I was a little loopy. and then i was a lot loopy. The Doc was all about it and wasted no time. All of a sudden there was a huge needle going into my mouth to numb my throat. Then another uncomfortably large needle to numb my tonsil. The Doc warned that he would not be able to numb the actual absys so it would hurt when he was lancing it. Basically he took a big knife, cut my tonsil open, drained a teaspoon of puss out. Yes. It hurt. A lot. But I am alive and supposedly the procedure will help me be able to swallow so that sometime soon i can eat food. Well my mommy dearsest is flying down here to take care of me for the rest of the week since im not really able to be up and around after being cut open. So yeah. good times.

oh california

This is how we get our study on

We play frisbee... often
Washington meet palm trees and blue sky.
I love life.

Im still alive... but why does that need to be said?

Two nights ago I stopped breathing. My tonsils finally got so big my throat closed and I woke up cause I wasn't breathing. It was quite alarming so I got to the CF on the hall and she called the campus EMT's since I couldn't talk. They put me on oxygen and called the real EMT's who called the Paramedics and they loaded me up in the ambulance and we were off to the ER. A little scary going to the ER all by myself knowing that no one was on their way. I got poked with needles a hundred times since I was so dehydrated my veins were almost collapsed. Soon they had an IV in one arm and blood being drawn from the other so I couldn't talk or write so it felt like I was in another country where i couldn't communicate with anyone. It was awesome. Thank god for meditation because except for when the nurse was stabbing at my arm to find a vein, or when she made me swallow a pill before giving me something to make my tonsils smaller, or when she gave me the most painful hip shot of my life I was fine:) The rest of the time when I was just scared and in pain I was able to breath out of it and keep my cool. After they kicked me out of my bed, I was instructed to walk to the front desk and get a taxi. I passed out in the waiting room so they called the taxi for me. How sweet of them:) Once I got back to the dorm at 6 in the morning my friend Michael helped me up the stairs and I passed out until about 2. I'm ok now. The drugs they gave me at the hospital to make the swelling go down are working fine. I can actually swallow jello now. It takes awhile but I can do it. Game plan: sleep all weekend and then go see the doc again on Monday to see our next steps are. Hopefully my tonsils can hang in there until December so I don't have to miss any more school. All in all I think it was a great test on my inner peace and independence. I'm pretty sure I passed.

Some get sad, some get drunk, I get...

MONO! Week one at college and I have mono. The doctor said I've probably had it for a month and it's just flairing up because of the stress of moving and lack of sleep. So I can't eat whole foods, I'm sleepy all the time, the meds make me nausious, and all the walking makes me dizzy. Good times. I am officially the girl you hang out with if you are too lame to go out and have fun. just kidding new friends:) Sitting and laying are my new favorite positions. Well good news is I have academic relief, which means if I get really dizzy or drousy I can miss class or an assignment and the teacher will take pity. I love pity:)

Two out of three aint bad

College is made up of three parts... from my three days of experience... academic life, social life, and sleep. You have to pick two. There just isn't enough time for all three. Obvioulsy since I am writting this at 1:30 in the morning and i still have 40 pages I plan on reading tonight I have made my choice. I figure I can sleep when I graduate and become a boring adult. Don't worry adult friends and family my social life is a sober one. Like I said before, I found a sober buddy and we are quite content going out without getting "shmangled". I have an awesome group of people to hang out with and I'm loving life. I am starting to wonder how long it will take before the sleep deprevation wears me down. No bother. Small bites.

Wait... you have to learn at college?

After meeting so many cool people and finding so much fun stuff to do we all comnpletely forgot that we are here to go to school. Today was a huge wake up call. I already have about 50 pages to read by wednesday and an essay due friday. I haven't even gone to my third class yet today. My Christian Tradition class is going to be a lot of fun. I have a group of my firends in there with me and the teacher seems pretty open. On the other hand.... my Biology 21 class.... I almost cried after five minutes. The teacher seems so nice but the class is going to be so tough. She told us that if we highlight while we study we aren't doing our job. Highlighting infers that the unhighlighted things are unimportant and that's just not true in this class because we will be tested on every word of that huge book. Not just the facts either. We will have to know what Metabolism is and then be able to compare the systems of a plant and a beetle conceptually. Boy oh boy am I excited. And so the work begins.....

My Roomie:)

This is my girl Susan. She's from Carnation so we have random similar friends. I got so lucky cause i get a roommate and a friend all in one:) How precious!

My beautiful dorm:)

Move in day

Move in day… good times. It was way easier than I thought in every way. We got there and my car door was literally opened for me. By the time I got my keys, volunteers had brought ALL of my things up to my room on the second floor. It was magical:) I waited for my ridiculously awesome roommate, Susan, to get here and then we rearranged furniture and moved in. With our posters, our pictures, our hideous rug, and our plants we had the most interesting room…by far. See the pictures and you’ll understand. Now we are making tshirt curtains. It’s taking awhile but I promise to post pictures once they’re up. My roommate is going to be such a great friend. We’ve already met so many cool people just by keeping our dorm door open. Our room has become the hang out spot real fast. We like it that way:) Night one we ended up at a Frat party. I’ll admit it was my first, but it was everything I expected…a lot of drunk people. I’ve already found two sober buddies to go to parties with and that’s probably the coolest thing I’ve found here so far. We ended up going home pretty early but keeping our door open until about 1 so that everyone could hang out here. All and all day one was amazing. I miss Carrie and everybody but through the internet we’ll all keep in touch. Thank god for technology.