a summer i will never forget

Have you ever had one of those days where you wish time would just freeze and give you time to catch up to what was going on around you? Well, unfortunately that was my day today. Life has been a bit crazy since I left the wonderful town of Rexburg, Id at the end of my freshman year at BYU-I. I made it safely back to my lovely home of Budd Lake, NJ. I was so happy to be there seeing my family. I was home for a whole 14 days before my dad took me to the emergency room at Hackettstown Hospital because I had serious pains in my lower stomach. I really was not excited for the beginning of this adventure and sure enough it was... well... I guess you could call showing up to the ER at 11pm and being in surgery at 7am the next morning to have appendix taken out. This was not the exciting event I wanted to kick off my summer with but whatever...I SURVIVED! So my mom picked me up at the Hospital on Sunday morning ( I went to the ER on Friday) and took me to church so I could be there when my handsome younger brother received the priesthood. I am so proud of him! He has grown into quite the little gentleman. During my stay at the hospital my dad and I were discussing how I always have surgery right before big events in my families life... I had knee surgery on November 14, 2008 which was my little sisters 8th birthday and she was baptized the next day... the baptism I cannot honestly say I remember the whole thing. Anyway my dad was joking around telling me that the next time I would have surgery would be before my college graduation or my wedding. This lovely statement of his would be FALSE! I had surgery a whole 18 days later! wooo... the day I was cleared to start physical activity from my appendectomy was the very day I started physical therapy. Well that went well and was an adventure in and of itself. So my parents left on vacation to see our family the week that I finished physical therapy and we all figured all would be well while they were gone... again this statement would be FALSE... I started having a sharp shooting pain in my abdomen again. Well because my parents were out of town my amazing friend Ashleigh took me to the emergency room. Poor lady she had to sit in the ER with me until 3am. The doctor (who i am not a big fan of) told me that all was ok and he didnt know what was wrong with me. Well i went home with Ashleigh that night because my dad didnt want me home alone on hospital grade pain killers. So the next day I still felt like I had been hit by a semi truck. My parents who were about 2500 miles away were not thrilled about this news. The next morning my dad called my surgeon who took out my appendix to see what we should do. Just a side note Dr. JABUSH is amazing, I absolutely love him! Anywho he asked me to meet him at the ER so Ashleigh jumped in the car and off we were to start part II of our hospital adventure. This time I got more care in the first 10 minutes we were there than the 5 hours we were there the night before. So i had a series of xrays, ultrasounds, ct scans, and a hidascan and the conclusion..... MY GALLBLADDER DIDNT WORK! So a normal gallbladder contracts at above 45% and mine would only contract 3%. Surgery was scheduled for about 3 hours later. So I had surgery with my parents all the way across the country :( Luckily Ashleigh was there for me! So three weeks later I was back on a plane to Rexburg, Id. So you can tell my summer was spent with medical professionals... lucky me?

So I got back to school safely... that has to count for something right?

I live in an apartment with 6 girls in it. My roommates are pretty cool I really like them. I had only known two of them before moving in. Leisa and Lacey are two of my best friends from my freshman year. Jess, Dianna, and Whitney are all amazing, and I cant imagine my college adventure without them!

School is amazing! Hard but fantastic. Business stats, Economics, and Accounting were NOT made to be taken in the same semester. I am liking all of them though. I guess when you are a nerdy accounting major you can like Econ.

I am so very thankful that despite my medical disaster of a summer I was able to make it back to the Lord's campus to attend school!