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[Feb. 21st, 2008|09:44 am]
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Little update
* Lunar eclipse was awesome
* So much school work so little time
* So much recycling so little room and employees(but thats okay because the new boss is awesome and I'm getting paid more:)
* What am I going to do with my summer?
* Spring Break is in 19 days and I'm so excited my head might explode
* Sociology of Race Relations has now become a class to a.) watch chris get yelled at and b.) laugh at how clueless our professor is and I'm just fine with that
* First broadcast was last Saturday and it was awesome. I'm actually getting a very small following which is kinda cool
*Cedric is an awesome boyfriend for loaning us his Wii until Brawl comes out then giving us his game cube
*Long hard week=lots of awesomeness tomorrow
Mmm college |
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[Jan. 4th, 2008|11:35 am]
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Grades are finally in
I did really well
And there is no need to tack on, "for somebody who was sick and had surgery" because my grades are still great
My final news story boosted me up to an A in newswriting which makes me very happy because I was expecting a B+ and that was my first time doing legit reporting and it didn't blow:) I think I'm going to submit it to media collision |
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[Nov. 29th, 2007|07:17 pm]
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I suck at making events on facebook, and inviting the correct people to said event |
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[Nov. 24th, 2007|03:44 pm]
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Man this has been a crazy week. My surgery was this past Tuesday, which I'm so glad is finally over. Even though they said my surgery time was 10:30, I don't think I got into the operating room until about 1. I was a little nervous, but I tried to keep calm. I felt fine when they started to prep me for surgery, I suppose just sitting in the waiting room was what was making me nervous. It took my dad about 4 minutes to figure out how to tie the hospital gown, and he managed to do it wrong. When the nurse came in she gave him a funny look. Before they started my Stimate drip they took my temperature and I had a slight fever. They took it again during the drip and it had gone up more. I normally run a fever when I get Stimate, but since I had a slight one before it worried my doctors. One of the hematologists was concerned about the fever and about bleeding after the surgery so they wanted me to stay overnight. I was kind of upset because I was hoping to go home afterwards, but it worked out in the end because I needed a lot of care during the night. I was in so much pain after I woke up from the procedure that they gave me a sedative since I was yelling and and crying a little. My room was nice enough for a hospital room, but some of my bed buttons didn't work. Even though the nurses took awhile to respond when I would call them, they were all pretty nice and didn't mind having to roll me over. One of them said I was the most polite patient she's had in awhile which made me happy since I didn't want to be a pain in the ass. I couldn't sleep much that night all of the tubes and monitors made it difficult for me to get comfortable, the oxygen tube was irritating my nose and mouth, and I was still in pain from the procedure. Luckily I shared the room with a talkative and nice older woman who helped the time pass. She was 66 and had just gotten scar tissue removed from her knees and a hysterectomy. She told me all about her kids, her job, and jerk ex-husband. She was surprised to find out my age since in her opinion I was too young and sweet to be having all of these health problems. Cedric came as soon as visiting hours started the next morning. I was so excited I couldn't wait to see him. He was a big help, he helped me get undressed and dressed and he helped me unhook a lot of the monitors so I could be discharged. He even pushed my wheelchair around which was actually kind of fun. Even though he was worried he would get lost on the way back, he got us home safely. He was a big help Wednesday and Thursday, he helped me get around my house and was able to lift me up which was great since I couldn't really stand up or let alone sit up without somebody's help. My family seemed to like him enough at Thanksgiving, nobody said anything too offensive or rude. I was really sad to see him go Thursday night. Yesterday I basically laid on the couch and watched TV since thats all I could really do. Justine came by and brought me some pumpkin pie and a CD. Typing this live journal entry is the most I've done today. I can walk around ok enough but I still can't bend or sit straight up. |
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[Oct. 18th, 2007|03:32 pm]
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Some sort of deity is emerging from my birthday cake, and yet I don't seem concerned nor do I seem to care
I just really wanted to show you all the drinking Kirby that is on our wall
Midterms are over
My birthday celebration is tomorrow
And I get to do my interview with the chief of the Ramapough Nation:) |
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[Sep. 23rd, 2007|12:57 pm]
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College should be about outdoor concerts and dancing
Last night was so much fun I can't believe I actually thought it was going to suck. For news writing we had to do an event story and I picked the Ceann benefit show for Darfur. Ceann is an Irish band that plays in the north east alot and are actually pretty good. Since WRPR was helping plan the event along with the Irish American Club and DJs were strongly encouraged to go I decided it would be an easy event to cover. I was able to interview the band and even though most were stinking drunk they were very friendly(the drummer was a little too friendly) and had an interesting back story. It wasn't a huge turn out but the people who were there were really into it so it was pretty awesome. The green mountain backdrop and the fog and mist really set the mood for the show. It didn't take long for everybody to kick off their shoes and dance like crazy. It was fun watching people do jigs, dancing around in circles, and mosh in the mud. By the end we were all muddy, sweaty, and more or less danced out but we all had a good time. I declined their invitation to do shots with them at the after party because the station manager was throwing it and I didn't want to put him in an awkward position, he probably shouldn't have underage DJs drinking in his apartment:) |
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[Aug. 29th, 2007|09:14 am]
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So it's official I'm going to need the surgery Dr.Kaufman confirmed that yesterday. Even though it kinda sucks, I'm not all that surprised something told me it was going to happen. The procedure shouldn't take that long, about 1 1/2 to 2 hours being operated on. I know the first couple of days of recovery will suck, and my von willebrands and thalassemia will make damn sure of that. I kind of wish we could have found this out sooner, since I'd really rather not do this with classes going on but I don't have much of a choice. Hopefully at the most I'll miss a week and a half of classes, but I'm hoping they can do this on a Wednesday so I can have Thursday, Friday, and the weekend to get my shit together.
Ooo, and I have a sweet ass chair for the little on campus apartment. It's actually Stan's chair, but thats ok because Stan is cool and provides for me even though I'm just Liz's weird minority friend. It's big, comfy, and comes with an ottoman. This will truly be the chair we're going to fight over when we're playing nintendo. |
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[Aug. 6th, 2007|11:01 am]
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Becca, Rob, and the rest of their ensemble did an awesome job Saturday evening playing jazz for the Coldstone customers. Despite the heat and humidity they had a good turn out because they were pretty sweet.
I enjoyed myself this weekend because I got to see Cedric again for the first time since June. He brought his Wii and we enjoyed many rounds of Mario Strikers and my dad enjoyed looking and being amazed at the Wii system. Yesterday was nice because we went to Sweet Stop and Cedric brought me a lot of candy(hooray for Wonka Bars and Jelly Bellies!) which I'm sure he regretted later because I wouldn't calm down cause sugar sometimes makes me the hyper:) Later on we met up with Justine and Rob at Coldstone and in general had a fun night. We bumped into Megan and Carl Jewell who I haven't seen since last year which was pretty nice. Cedric left this morning and I'm already feeling a little down since I'm a bit of a tool.
Last time he was here I was feeling pretty sick and this time was no exception. Instead of blowing chunks in my church bathroom like last time, this time I was lucky enough to do it in the comfort of my own home. I don't know how much more of these strong medications I can take. This week is going to be unpleasant since I'm going to be using the hardcore ones. Hopefully soon I'll be able to get in contact with Dr.Kaufman to decide what to do next now that we know what the problem is. I kind of held out a small hope that we wouldn't need to go down the surgery route but right now that seems to be the only way.
When Cedric was in Portugal, his grandmother made me an apron
It's green and yellow with cute little cows on them
It makes me smile:) |
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