I would just like everyone to know that I am done for the semester!!!
..life as NICU parents...
12 years ago
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Figure Skating!
I absolutely loved taking a figure skating class this semester and I would definitely take another in the near future. Today we had our end of the year performance.
I am in a black long sleeve dress and white head band and start out second from the bottom.
For your viewing pleasure:
I am in a black long sleeve dress and white head band and start out second from the bottom.
For your viewing pleasure:
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Life in the ER
I have found myself spending a lot of time in the ER lately. No, I did not pick up a new shift at the hospital, but if things keep going the way they are they might as well give me a position. Today was my second trip to the Emergency Room in about oh maybe 28 hours. Yesterday I took my roommate who believed that she had a blood clot in her leg. Don't worry she is fine but she did have legitimate reason to believe that she had a clot. That was the easy trip. We were in and out of the hospital in about 2 hours. I even got to go with her to get her ultra sound. Today was a different story though.
I was in my ice skating class and we were working on some of our choreography for our performance in April when I looked to my right and see this one girl fall backwards and land right on her wrist. She screamed out and I skated over to her. (I guess the doctor in me has already kicked in.) It was apparent that it was broken so the teacher and I got her off the ice and I promptly began to splint her wrist with whatever I could find. I did a pretty good job splinting with two pairs of socks and my polar fleece and then drove her to the Emergency Room. When we got there they took x-rays of the wrist and it was obviously broken; the whole radius was snapped and shifted over. I thought that we would be there 3 or 4 hours tops but 4 hours rolled around and we still had not seen the orthopedist. Then 5 hours and the movie Clear and Present Danger later we still had not heard from the Orthopedist. Finally after about 7 hours we heard that the doctor was on his way. The thing is we knew that they were still going to have to set the bone back in place and to do that put her under which takes even longer for the sedation to wear off before we could go home.
The doctor got there and was in the process of reducing her break when she her breathing nearly stopped. That was intense. The nurses are yelling 50…45…40 someone call respiratory and get them down here now! They finally got her breathing again and got the bone set but it was sure an adventure to get there. As we were being discharged and wheeled out of the hospital it had been a whopping 9 hours of hospital fun!
I really hope that tomorrow is a dull incident free day.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Weird Weekend
I had the strangest day yesterday. I woke up to a very unique sound outside of my window kind of like a WHOOOSHing noise and I was so confused...so I opened up my blinds and to my surprise there was a hot air balloon outside. I fumbled for my camera and this is the view from my bedroom window. The picture hardly does the closeness of the balloon justice. It was something that you just don't expect every Saturday morning in Provo.
A few hours later Katherine and I were in the grocery store in the greeting card isle looking for a birthday card for our mom and this younger woman comes up to us and asks us if we had ever seen the High School Musical movies and if we had liked them. We told her that we had seen them and that yes we enjoyed them. She then proceeded to tell us that she was a casting agent for some company that worked with Disney and what not and was looking for fresh faces to come in and audition to be in some upcoming movies. Katherine and I just started to laugh and informed her that acting was not a skill that we possessed. She was fairly persistent but relented as Katherine and I just continued to laugh. We left the isle without a birthday card and in stitches. It was but 5 minutes later that this younger man approaches us in the spice isle and asks us if we had ever seen the High School Musical movies and if we liked them. We told him that we had already spoken with the other lady in the card isle and he asked us if we were "in". We sadly told him no that we were not interested. He did tell us that we were very pretty and just the thing that they were looking for though. Its not every day that you get asked twice to be in a movie. I guess we will never know if I could have been the next Vanessa Hudgens or Ashley Tisdale staring opposite Zac Efron.
What a dream boat.
A few hours later Katherine and I were in the grocery store in the greeting card isle looking for a birthday card for our mom and this younger woman comes up to us and asks us if we had ever seen the High School Musical movies and if we had liked them. We told her that we had seen them and that yes we enjoyed them. She then proceeded to tell us that she was a casting agent for some company that worked with Disney and what not and was looking for fresh faces to come in and audition to be in some upcoming movies. Katherine and I just started to laugh and informed her that acting was not a skill that we possessed. She was fairly persistent but relented as Katherine and I just continued to laugh. We left the isle without a birthday card and in stitches. It was but 5 minutes later that this younger man approaches us in the spice isle and asks us if we had ever seen the High School Musical movies and if we liked them. We told him that we had already spoken with the other lady in the card isle and he asked us if we were "in". We sadly told him no that we were not interested. He did tell us that we were very pretty and just the thing that they were looking for though. Its not every day that you get asked twice to be in a movie. I guess we will never know if I could have been the next Vanessa Hudgens or Ashley Tisdale staring opposite Zac Efron.
What a dream boat.Saturday, February 21, 2009
Viva Las Vegas
Thanks to Emily, Tiffany and a bunch of Aussies, I really could not have asked for a better 21st birthday. It seems as if I have the most fun when I am with my family so I was so excited to be in Sin City with two of the best cousins anyone could ever ask for.
Saturday evening we went to dinner at a crepe place in Paris and it was delicious. That was pretty much the highlight of that night seeing as we were all exhausted, we got back to the hotel and were all in our beds probably by 10:00.
Sunday came around all too fast and Emily's friend from college picked us up and took us to church with her. We did go to all 3 hours of church which was one of Tiffany's rules for the weekend. That night we had dinner reservations at Canaletto at the Venetian which was the best meal I had had in a long time. We concluded our Sunday evening with the fountains at the Bellagio which are fantastic and worth the trip in and of itself.
We met Monday bright and early and made our way down to the breakfast buffet at our hotel. The food was just ok but Emily and I ate a ton. When Tiffany came back with her last plate, Emily and I had sunk down in our chairs each with a bowl of frozen yogurt with sprinkles. We walked off our breakfast though by making our way down the strip to the MGM Grand to see the lions which was one of my favorite parts of the trip. We spent the rest of the afternoon at Caesars palace shopping and where we ran into a club promoter for Jet Night Club who put us on the guest list for the Diesel Preconvention Party. We also ran into Leland from Dog the Bounty Hunter. We had dinner at the Bellagio Buffet and again I ate a ton there as well. I had crab legs, ahi tuna, sushi...I ate so much I can't even really remember what I ate. We then met up with our Aussie friends which proved to be a lot of fun and then ran to Jet to see T-Pain perform. It was a busy night. My feet still hurt from wearing Tiffany's gold shoes but it was all worth it.
I had such a great time and the only thing that could have made the trip better would have been to have Erika there with us. Thanks again to Tiffany and Emily though for sacrificing their time to meet me in Las Vegas. Hopefully there will be another trip really soon.
Saturday evening we went to dinner at a crepe place in Paris and it was delicious. That was pretty much the highlight of that night seeing as we were all exhausted, we got back to the hotel and were all in our beds probably by 10:00.
Sunday came around all too fast and Emily's friend from college picked us up and took us to church with her. We did go to all 3 hours of church which was one of Tiffany's rules for the weekend. That night we had dinner reservations at Canaletto at the Venetian which was the best meal I had had in a long time. We concluded our Sunday evening with the fountains at the Bellagio which are fantastic and worth the trip in and of itself.
We met Monday bright and early and made our way down to the breakfast buffet at our hotel. The food was just ok but Emily and I ate a ton. When Tiffany came back with her last plate, Emily and I had sunk down in our chairs each with a bowl of frozen yogurt with sprinkles. We walked off our breakfast though by making our way down the strip to the MGM Grand to see the lions which was one of my favorite parts of the trip. We spent the rest of the afternoon at Caesars palace shopping and where we ran into a club promoter for Jet Night Club who put us on the guest list for the Diesel Preconvention Party. We also ran into Leland from Dog the Bounty Hunter. We had dinner at the Bellagio Buffet and again I ate a ton there as well. I had crab legs, ahi tuna, sushi...I ate so much I can't even really remember what I ate. We then met up with our Aussie friends which proved to be a lot of fun and then ran to Jet to see T-Pain perform. It was a busy night. My feet still hurt from wearing Tiffany's gold shoes but it was all worth it.
I had such a great time and the only thing that could have made the trip better would have been to have Erika there with us. Thanks again to Tiffany and Emily though for sacrificing their time to meet me in Las Vegas. Hopefully there will be another trip really soon.
Friday, February 6, 2009
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