Saturday, December 3, 2011
School
I cannot believe that I have two weeks left until I've completed my first semester of college!!! Time is flying!!!! I am so excited!!! I'm sure it went by fast because I'm also working! Have I mentioned I love my job!? ;)
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Kid-isms! :)
Since working at a daycare, I've heard kids say some of the FUNNIEST things! I had one girl ask me yesterday why was I born with my birth defect and that it was my fault. (This one was not so funny and kind of ticked me off!) I had a 2 1/2 year old ask me "Can I come see your baby?" I informed him that I didn't have a baby and he just kept asking! He's so cute! :)
Saturday, November 12, 2011
It's Been Awhile!
It's been awhile since I posted! I am just so busy with work and school. I love my job and my co-workers are amazing! I've met so many awesome people and I couldn't have asked for a better job!!! :) I am majoring in Early Childhood Education because I love my job so much!!! :) I never dreamed that I would ever been in the education field, but I guess Heavenly Father knew it was meant for me! If I get accepted into my program, I can start in the Fall of 2013. I am so excited!!! :) I can't wait until Thanksgiving break though! I am so sick of school! I have to work Tuesday and Wednesday of the week Thanksgiving break starts and I love my job so much that I look forward to it every day!! :)
Saturday, October 22, 2011
I have a new. . . .
JOB!!!!! I got hired as a sub at the Early Learning Center on ISU's campus!!! :) I LOVE it!!!! I have only had 1 day off this week and I so wish I could hvave worked the whole week!!! :) I get to be with children and teach them to read, and things like that! :) I am so excited about this job!!!! :) By the time Friday hits, I'm ready for a break, but I'm so glad I have weekends off to be with friends and family and catch up on homework! :) I love it!!! :)
Friday, October 7, 2011
Recent Happenings!
A lot has happened since I blogged last! Here's just a few things that have happened:
1) I changed my major! I am no longer going into Nursing. I know I was dead set on it for about 5 years, but as I went through some of the classes, I realized I couldn't do it. So instead of Nursing, I'm majoring in Elementary Education with a minor in Biology or Special Education. I think the BEST thing that came out of it, was that I get to drop my Anatomy class. Why take a class if it doesn't count for anything!?
2) I am the Class Representative in my 8 a.m. institute class, which is Book of Mormon with Brother Lee! :) I am so excited!! :)
3) The best thing that's happened since I last blogged is my aunt is having a baby!! We are so excited!!! I can't wait for her to have the baby!! We know what it is, but some family hasn't been told yet what it is, so I won't say anything! If you want to know, text or Facebook message me and I will tell you!
4) Conference was AMAZING!!!! My favorite talk was from Elder Neil L. Andersen on motherhood!!! OH my gosh I can't describe how fabulous it was!
1) I changed my major! I am no longer going into Nursing. I know I was dead set on it for about 5 years, but as I went through some of the classes, I realized I couldn't do it. So instead of Nursing, I'm majoring in Elementary Education with a minor in Biology or Special Education. I think the BEST thing that came out of it, was that I get to drop my Anatomy class. Why take a class if it doesn't count for anything!?
2) I am the Class Representative in my 8 a.m. institute class, which is Book of Mormon with Brother Lee! :) I am so excited!! :)
3) The best thing that's happened since I last blogged is my aunt is having a baby!! We are so excited!!! I can't wait for her to have the baby!! We know what it is, but some family hasn't been told yet what it is, so I won't say anything! If you want to know, text or Facebook message me and I will tell you!
4) Conference was AMAZING!!!! My favorite talk was from Elder Neil L. Andersen on motherhood!!! OH my gosh I can't describe how fabulous it was!
Friday, September 16, 2011
My Story--Why So Many Surgeries?
I have had requests to write out my "story" and why I've had to have so many. So here it is!
I was born with a birth defect called "Medial Cleft Syndrome." I was born with a completely flat nose, a hole in my lip, and skin tags. You can see in the pictures! :) I was about 18 months old when I had my very first surgery. They removed my skin tags and repaired the hole in my lip.
I had my second surgery when I was about 2 1/2. I honestly can't remember what they did. I think they just tried to fix my nose, but I'm not 100% sure.
My third surgery was my big one. My 14 hour one. I can remember bits and pieces of that surgery. I know that I was 3 1/2. I remember waking up in recovery and my dad was at the side of me. I couldn't move, but when I opened my eyes, the recovery room was green. (Must of been the drugs)!! I remember my dad saying he was there. I told him I felt like I was going to be sick. I couldn't move, so I just threw up, and it went all over my dad's shoe. I remember the nurses moving me to a new bed, to change the other bed. I had my eyes removed from my sockets and put back in, my brain was scraped from my forehead, and they took a piece of my forehead bone and put it in my nose! The drs told my parents that I would be in the hospital for 3 weeks. I proved them wrong. I was only there for a week! :) My eyes were swollen shut for, I don't even know how long! I had 14 staples going across my head--ear to ear-- and getting those suckers out HURT!!! The whole week I was there,(I had the majority of my surgeries at Primary Children's Medical Center, in SLC, UT)I wanted to just go on wagon rides, and eat the pink frosted sugar cookies! :) If I had those two things, life was good! :)
I have had numerous sets of ear tubes. I have probably had 4-5 surgeries just for ear tubes!
When I was 6 years old, I had my tonsils taken out at EIRMC in Idaho Falls, ID. That surgery was nothing to some of my others!
When I was in 8th grade, I had braces, and I kept getting a puffy pus pocket where the metal was rubbing up on my gums. I thought I was allergic to the metal. Turns out, I had a cyst. So over Christmas Break of my 8th grade, I had the cyst taken care of. My mom got to watch that surgery because I made her swear to me that she wouldn't leave.
My sophomore year of high school was when I had to have another surgery. I missed a week of school. On April 10th, 2009, I went to have my nose done. I had 2 bones that had collapsed inside my nose sometime in my lifetime, not sure when, but as far as I knew, I was just going into get the bones in my nose fixed. Little did I know, they would be doing more. This is when I became upset with my mom. She knew they were doing more than what she told me. When I woke up in recovery--around 11:00-11:30, I noticed something different about my left ear. I asked the nurse, still drugged up, what they did. She said they had taken a piece of cartilage from my ear to put in the tip of my nose. I just said okay and went back to sleep. I let my mom know how frustrated I was that she didn't tell me later. I sobbed about it. I remember it being Easter weekend. Not the best way to spend a holiday on Hydrocodone. I had a splint on my nose for a week. That was the biggest pain in my butt EVER!! I have never itched so much in my life!! My splint fell off the day before I had to go get checked, so I panicked, and called the dr's office frantically. They told me it was nothing to worry about.
June 2nd, 2010 I had my wisdom teeth out. They had to put me completely out (right in the drs office) because my blood pressure was so high from the anxiety. I think that surgery only took about 45 minutes. I remember the recovery room and everyone laughing at me becaue I was drugged up and saying funny things! :) I was very lucky and didn't get dry sockets! I lived on mashed potatoes and hydrocodone for a good 4 days. So glad those days are over!!
Now that you know all about my surgeries, you're probably thinking I'm strong and tough and all that good stuff. But to be completely honest, every time a doctor tells me I have to have surgery, I panic. The stress sets in, and I get sick from all the worry. To this day, I am nervous to go to the dr because I don't want to hear the words "We can do surgery to correct this." Now that I am 18 though, I am the one who has to give the doctor permission to operate. Unless it's a life or death situation, I am not having anymore surgeries. I am 120% happy and confident with the way I look and I wouldn't change ANYTHING!!! :) I think that me being put through all those surgeries has made me stronger. I know that if I didn't go through it, I probably would be a wimp.
I was born with a birth defect called "Medial Cleft Syndrome." I was born with a completely flat nose, a hole in my lip, and skin tags. You can see in the pictures! :) I was about 18 months old when I had my very first surgery. They removed my skin tags and repaired the hole in my lip.
I had my second surgery when I was about 2 1/2. I honestly can't remember what they did. I think they just tried to fix my nose, but I'm not 100% sure.
My third surgery was my big one. My 14 hour one. I can remember bits and pieces of that surgery. I know that I was 3 1/2. I remember waking up in recovery and my dad was at the side of me. I couldn't move, but when I opened my eyes, the recovery room was green. (Must of been the drugs)!! I remember my dad saying he was there. I told him I felt like I was going to be sick. I couldn't move, so I just threw up, and it went all over my dad's shoe. I remember the nurses moving me to a new bed, to change the other bed. I had my eyes removed from my sockets and put back in, my brain was scraped from my forehead, and they took a piece of my forehead bone and put it in my nose! The drs told my parents that I would be in the hospital for 3 weeks. I proved them wrong. I was only there for a week! :) My eyes were swollen shut for, I don't even know how long! I had 14 staples going across my head--ear to ear-- and getting those suckers out HURT!!! The whole week I was there,(I had the majority of my surgeries at Primary Children's Medical Center, in SLC, UT)I wanted to just go on wagon rides, and eat the pink frosted sugar cookies! :) If I had those two things, life was good! :)
I have had numerous sets of ear tubes. I have probably had 4-5 surgeries just for ear tubes!
When I was 6 years old, I had my tonsils taken out at EIRMC in Idaho Falls, ID. That surgery was nothing to some of my others!
When I was in 8th grade, I had braces, and I kept getting a puffy pus pocket where the metal was rubbing up on my gums. I thought I was allergic to the metal. Turns out, I had a cyst. So over Christmas Break of my 8th grade, I had the cyst taken care of. My mom got to watch that surgery because I made her swear to me that she wouldn't leave.
My sophomore year of high school was when I had to have another surgery. I missed a week of school. On April 10th, 2009, I went to have my nose done. I had 2 bones that had collapsed inside my nose sometime in my lifetime, not sure when, but as far as I knew, I was just going into get the bones in my nose fixed. Little did I know, they would be doing more. This is when I became upset with my mom. She knew they were doing more than what she told me. When I woke up in recovery--around 11:00-11:30, I noticed something different about my left ear. I asked the nurse, still drugged up, what they did. She said they had taken a piece of cartilage from my ear to put in the tip of my nose. I just said okay and went back to sleep. I let my mom know how frustrated I was that she didn't tell me later. I sobbed about it. I remember it being Easter weekend. Not the best way to spend a holiday on Hydrocodone. I had a splint on my nose for a week. That was the biggest pain in my butt EVER!! I have never itched so much in my life!! My splint fell off the day before I had to go get checked, so I panicked, and called the dr's office frantically. They told me it was nothing to worry about.
June 2nd, 2010 I had my wisdom teeth out. They had to put me completely out (right in the drs office) because my blood pressure was so high from the anxiety. I think that surgery only took about 45 minutes. I remember the recovery room and everyone laughing at me becaue I was drugged up and saying funny things! :) I was very lucky and didn't get dry sockets! I lived on mashed potatoes and hydrocodone for a good 4 days. So glad those days are over!!
Now that you know all about my surgeries, you're probably thinking I'm strong and tough and all that good stuff. But to be completely honest, every time a doctor tells me I have to have surgery, I panic. The stress sets in, and I get sick from all the worry. To this day, I am nervous to go to the dr because I don't want to hear the words "We can do surgery to correct this." Now that I am 18 though, I am the one who has to give the doctor permission to operate. Unless it's a life or death situation, I am not having anymore surgeries. I am 120% happy and confident with the way I look and I wouldn't change ANYTHING!!! :) I think that me being put through all those surgeries has made me stronger. I know that if I didn't go through it, I probably would be a wimp.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
A post with pictures!! :) Part 2
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