It has been awhile since I have blogged, and I’ve missed it. People have been asking about why I haven’t been blogging, and my response has been, “life!” My life has been consumed by my classes, work, and just everyday life. After being on a computer all day at work, I feel like the last thing I want to do when I get home is get on my laptop to blog. Basically this blog will just be a catch-up on my life!
I have always had really bad problems with my sinuses/allergies/asthma. I had my tonsils and adenoids out when I was in third grade, allergy testing and shots starting shortly thereafter, and quite a few ER trips for asthma attacks. In the past 6 months, I have felt worse than ever. After taking antibiotics for sinus infections 4 or 5 times, I finally went to see an ENT. My first appointment was a little disheartening. He basically told me that my sinuses were so bad that medicine couldn’t help and that surgery was my only option. He couldn’t even decide what kind of surgery I needed because my sinuses and nasal cavities were too swollen to do a scope. He put me on some medicines to help with the swelling and such for 3 weeks and then wanted me to come back to decide what to do. The medicine did make me feel a little better, but it did whatever it was the doctor wanted because when I left my appointment, I had scheduled my sinus surgery. My surgery is on March 19th which is the beginning UT’s Spring Break. I won’t have to miss any classes and there shouldn’t be too much going on work-wise because most of the faculty will be gone. I’m nervous and excited about the surgery. I’m just really hoping that it works and I can finally start feeling better and actually get an uninterrupted night’s sleep.
I have been out of town the past few weekends. The first two I was in Atlanta because my dad has been sick and had surgery. He got to come home last week only to be admitted back to the hospital yesterday. He had gastrointestinal surgery so his stomach hasn’t started working again therefore he cannot get any nutrition. They will start giving him TPN (nutrition) through a PICC line tonight and then he will be able to go home with that until his stomach starts working again. Hopefully this means that he actually is finally on the road to recovery. I took this picture of the Atlanta skyline while sitting in traffic on the way to the hospital (notice the Varsity sign):
Last weekend, I headed to the Blue Ridge Mountains. It was David’s birthday and he wanted to go home to see his parents and hang out with his best friends. We didn’t do anything too exciting. I did a little bit of shopping, ate some Mexican food, he went hunting for 12 hours and didn’t kill anything and I did some school work. I did go to a place called the Glass Palette which is on the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville. According to the website, it is an Interactive Glass Art Studio. It took me forever to decide what I was going to make! I finally decided on a picture frame. The only thing that stinks is that I have to wait a couple weeks for it to be fired and fused. I can’t wait to see what the final product looks like! Here is what it looked like when I left it:
I know this post was a little long, but I’m planning/hoping to blog more regularly so I won’t have to do as much “catch-up.”
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