2 hours later...

Yesterday I spent about 2 and half hours at the doctors office.  Back again to see another doctor about my shoulder... I think this was my 7th? maybe 8th?  Anyways it was quite a morning there.

So I get there a couple minutes earlier since I was a new patient and knew I would have forms to fill out.  As I was doing that, I was also getting some new X-Rays taken.  Finally after about 25 minutes after my appointment was suppose to be, they call me back.

I get in and the lady tells me the doctor I was suppose to be seeing got called out on an emergency.  She said his Physician Assistant would be seeing me and if afterwards I still felt the need to see the doctor I could wait to see him.  I told them that would be fine, knowing full well I would probs want to see the doctor.

So this guy walks in 20 minutes later, rather awkwardly I must say, and starts going over things.  I start to explain what has been going on for the last 2 years and he barely gave me a chance to.  He then chooses to examine me, and I soon come to the conclusion that this man really has no idea what is going on with me or how to help.  Well this upsets me.  I was already in a very stressful position, and this was in my head suppose to be the answer to my problems.  As this guy finishes up he really does not give me an answer to anything at all or a plan for how to treat anything.  I tell him I will wait on the doctor to come back.

30 minutes later, after I dried all of my tears and calmed myself down, this cute little old man walks in the room.  He was amazing people.  He examines me and talks to me and explains everything.  You can totally tell that he knew what he was doing.  After talking to him for a little bit he finally told me what he thought I should do.

Apparently (feel free to correct me if I am wrong, I am no doctor here) there are two joints in your shoulder.  One much larger one, and then a smaller one.  My last injection was into the larger joint.  This guy believed that my problem was in the smaller joint and that I needed to have another injection there.  So I sucked it up and shed some more tears as he injected me again.

I am praying that this will be my answer, and if not at least I am one step forward in finding one.  I hope sooner rather than later I will, but praying is all I can do at this point in time.

My First Few Days of Spring Break

Its only the first Sunday of Spring Break and I already have a good story to tell....well good in the sense of a lot happened.  So Friday afternoon I'm all excited because I am done reading with my little buddy at Mountainview Elementary School and it is officially Spring Break!!

So as we get back to school I talk to Ashlee and we plan to leave around 3:15 for my flight that night.  Picture this: In the car, on a road unknown to me, and I get THE phone call "Hello your flight has been cancelled.  Goodbye."  Needless to say I freakout.  What do you mean the flight is cancelled?! Are you kidding?! What do I do?! I want to go home?!  (btw the phone call I got was an automated message so yelling at them didn't really help all that much).

So what do I do? I call the parents.  And since I was already close to the airport I went on in to see if some way some how they could still get me out and home that night.  The answer? No. Sorry no flights.  I was not a happy camper when I heard this.  So I did the next best thing and scheduled another flight for the next morning.

Let me just say THANK GOODNESS for amazing friends! Like seriously people I do not know what I would have done had Ashlee not been there with me and been able to drive me everywhere! I owe her big time.  So we got back in the clown car and headed back to Milligan for the night.

5:30 a.m. Saturday morning.  I wake up at the butt crack of dawn.  I get ready.  I wait for Ash to come get me (again cannot believe she did this for me!) We get some coffee.  And man did I need that coffee.  I get to the airport and......my flight was there! Thank goodness!!! So I check in and go through security and find a seat to wait to board.

So I pull out this cute little book and get to reading.  About Auschwitz. Actually its not half bad.  And I got a lot read.  (p.s. this is for a class and it makes me look really smart!)

The plane gets boarded and we take off.  Only to have one of the most turbulent flights I have ever been on.  The weather in the area had been bad but this was not what I was expecting.  I think everyone could tell that I was freaking out.  But we made it to Atlanta where I had plenty of time before my next flight.  So what do I do? I get another cup of coffee!!

Then I saw this guy.  And he was kinda creepy.  For one he has a fanny pack.  Who even has one of those anymore? And who even wears one!? And he had like two sets of head phones around his neck.  And he was talking very loudly to himself....in another language! CREEPSTER!!

After all of this I finally board my second plane and make it back home to Florida at about 12:40.  And man was I thankful to be home.  I was able to enjoy some lovely time with my parents and brother just catching up on life and all things going on here.  Dad put some food on the grill and we had quite a nice night! I LOVE this place!

Bryce and his girl friend were going to party and since her mom came over to take some pictures, we decided to make it into a prom photo session! Of course Bryce just loved that!

Bryce was feeling short next to Brooke who was in heels.

The lovely kids and I

Momma and the Kids

The girls!

Overall these past two days of Spring Break have been good ones.  I am so happy to be home and with my family!  I am looking forward to relaxation and sleep!! Hope everyone is having just as much fun as I am!!

SPRING BREAK! SPRING BREAK! SPRING BREAK!

I am ready for spring break. That is all.  I want to go to Florida.  And see my family.  And cook good food.  See a doctor.  Get a lot of sleep.  And have fun.  That is all.

Dorm Struggles

Here at Milligan our we have suite style dorms.  While this is fun because instead of just having a roommate we get to have suite mates (or people we share a toilet with according to the guys here).  While I love my suite mate to death, we have a slight problem in our suite.  And that problem would be that we are on the same shower schedule.  This means we race each other (or I just race her) to get into the shower in the mornings.

Now for those of you who know me, you know that I am so not a morning person! I have my routine, and in order for me to have a good morning I need to stick to it.

Now this morning I woke up at 8, just in time for me to jump in the shower and have plenty of time to do my hair and makeup and get dressed and head out the door for work at 9.  But right as I was waking up this morning I hear that light go on and next thing I know....Kylie is in the shower.

Confession time.....most of the time when this happens I just give up on the shower for that morning.  But this morning I just really needed to get in the shower.  So I waited for what seemed like forever for Kylie to get out of the shower.  (During that time I chose to read this blog which was tons of fun! love her!)

So it was like almost 8:30 before I got out of the shower, which was a major problem because 3o minutes is just not enough time for me to get ready.  Some how I did it, but not without some dorm struggles!

Bringing Back Some Old Times...

Yesterday my Dad posted this photo on Facebook.  I have no idea where it came from, or what made him want to put it on Facebook (maybe I should ask?).  As I was looking at the picture I was trying to place the time it was taken.  It seems that I must have been in Kindergarten or First Grade, approximately 15 years ago.  I get this from the fact that Mattie and I are in our school uniforms (aren't the adorbs?!) and Benjamin and Bryce are not.  Also this picture was taken before my parents renovated the home (if you come to the house now the window in the left is no longer there).

All I kept thinking when I saw this was "What in the world was I thinking putting those shoes with those tights and dress?" or "What was Mom thinking when she dressed me like that?" 90's style or what people?!

I was also curious of whether this is how my parents think of us.  When they think about the four of us kids do they think of us how we are today? Or do they think of the little ones we use to be?

Oh how some days I would love to go back to those days and not deal with being an adult, but other days I am so thankful to be done with those days.

I love how my parents raised us and you can tell from the smiles on all of our faces (except for Bryce who seems a little confused as to what is going on...) that we were happy kids! Love my family tons and love the fact that we are all still so close.  I would not trade a single one of them for anyone!

Mr. Buff 2012

Tonight was Milligan's 4th Annual Mr. Buff Pageant!! For those of you who are unaware of this contest we have here, several of the men here at Milli volunteer to go through a pageant and fight for the title of Mr. Buff.  A male beauty pageant...does it get any better than that?!

This year our contestants were Brennan Tracy, Torian Sitton, Sam Beale, Iam Burt, Sean Martin, Christopher Bosworth, Marshall Werbinski, Erik Zetterberg, and our special guest Dr. Tim Dillon!  I have to say they all did a pretty awesome job tonight!

Brennan serenaded us all with a tribute to T-Swift

We also had our very own Michael Jackson impersonator in the house, Torian.

Ian Burt told a very....interesting story that involved Austin Powers, a creepy voiced person named Eugene who lives under the library, and the Milligan Cheer Squad as villains...

And the one and only Dr. Tim Dillon told us some stories from his childhood mix in with a few songs no one recognized...

Erik Zetterberg was joined on stage with Justin Hill to sing and dedicate the song "God Gave Me You" to his girlfriend Allison Hill...little did we all know, but that song led into a rather cute marriage proposal!!!

Here is the cute couple after she said....yes:) Congrats guys!!!

The guys did a final number for us all before they crowned the winner!

And no shocker to the majority of us, but the winner was Torian! His impression of Michael was pretty impressive! He was great of course and offered his crown up to fellow Contestant Marshal Werbinski for his awesome message on unity, and the sash and gift card to Eric Zetterberg for him to celebrate his new engagement!

Overall it was a really great night.  There were tons of laughs and tears enjoyed by all of those who were able to come! Cannot wait to see what next year has in store!

My Not So Much Fun Week Ahead of Me

Is going to consists of 4 tests and 1 presentation.  Oh and to top it all off I have had a cold for the past 3 days.  Things are not looking good... my nose hurts, my head hurts, and Im probably running a fever, oh and my hand hurts...from making all those darn notecards I have to make in order to study, and I am not done yet.

So much to do and not a lot of time to do it in.  Especially when all my body wants to do is sleep!  Oh well only two more weeks and then I will be home for spring break!!!!