I Survived!

I made it through finals week! Yay! I do not like finals, not even a little bit! If you have gone to college you know what I am talking about.

I am feeling much better now. I am still getting headaches every day, but not the migraines I was getting. I am very grateful for that! On Wednesday I got so sick again from the migraine that I was throwing up. So I made my wait to the health center and saw a doctor. She pulled up my CT scan and blood work from the hospital visit the previous Friday. My white blood cell count was high, and the scan showed that I probably had sinusitis. She prescribed an antibiotic and decongesting medicine for me. I went home and took a long nap (sorry I missed you call Sadie, and that I am a slacker and haven't gotten back to you yet. Thank you for thinking of me!) I have seen improvement in the intensity of my head aches since then. My mom knew I probably had sinusitis all along! Too bad those stupid ER doctors didn't figure it out. It would have saved me 5 days of being miserable!

On a more exciting note...after finals were finished I got my hair done. I dyed it darker and cut more layers in it, but it is still really long. It's kind of fun! A nice change. My mom flew down to Utah on Friday morning and she got her hair done too.


On Saturday morning we woke up and got ready to take off for Idaho. On the way home to Boise we stopped along the way to see family. First we stopped at Jon and Gina's house. Brian and Liberty were there with their kids also. It was fun to see everyone at once! I absolutely love Jon and Gina's girls they are so fun! When we came to the door all of them ran over and gave Mom and I big hugs! They immediately offered us some cake, they are so cute! I haven't seen Brian and Lib's kids in so long! They didn't remember me at all, but that is ok. They have grown up so much! All of the adults sat around and chatted and caught up on each other's lives. It was really fun. I love my family! We continued on our drive to Boise, and then a few hours later stopped in Gooding. We drove thru town and saw the round building and guessed that Aunt Kay Lynn would be there. Sure enough she was! haha. We went in and visited while Kay Lynn was finishing up a quilt that she was making. Klyn came by and visited with us. It was really fun to get to see so much family in one day! I love the Cheneys!

I am home in Boise now. Yay! We were lucky because we beat the snow for the most part. The last 20 minutes of our drive was snowy. Since we have been home in Boise it has been snowing off and on. It will be a white Christmas! I hope all is well with each of you. Peace and Love!

What a headache...A Really Bad One Too!

So I started out super motivated with my new blog, new goals, new motivation for consistency with my routine. This week was the last week of classes for the semester so I have been extremely busy, but I did not want to use that as an excuse. Then I stared getting these headaches around Tuesday. They were frustrating and at first only lasted for about an hour or two.

Then by Thursday around noon I suddenly had this really intense headache just come over me all of the sudden. It wasn't gradual at all. I tied to tough it out and go about my day writing papers for the end of semester in my classes. Then by Thursday night my headache had gotten so mad it actually made me nauseated. I actually ended up throwing up. Right after that I went to bed (didn't get to finish the paper that was due that night). It took me a while to fall asleep with the pain, the over the counter stuff that I was taking wasn't helping at all.

When I woke up Friday morning I felt much better. But after just two hours went past my intense head ache came back again. I went to the Urgent Care center to be seen. The doctor asked me what was going on, when I told him this was by far the worst head ache I had ever had he refunded my co-pay and told me that I had to go to the hospital. Now, I had a VERY important meeting that I absolutely could not miss at 3:30PM so I waited until after my meeting to go to the hospital. I was not feeling well at all before the meeting. I was counting down the minutes until it started. But strangely when I got into the meeting I was doing just fine. Eventually I could feel myself getting sick again so I excused myself from the meeting about an hour and fifteen minutes later. I was walking to the car and (this is really gross I am sorry to share this with you skip ahead if you would like) suddenly this sick feeling in my stomach came over me and I couldn't hold it. I had to lean over in the grass, luckily it was in a corner where no one else was around and it was a Friday afternoon when no one was on campus. But still! Gross! I hurried straight home with my intense headache getting worse and worse. When I got home I brushed my teeth and rinsed with mouthwash a few times. Then went back to my car and drove to the hospital.

I checked into the hospital with what was expected to be an hour wait. Which I was waiting for a room to open up for me I had to go to the bathroom and throw up again. Finally I was placed in a room. I was in so much pain from both my headache and nausea by this point I wasn't functioning well. Before the doctor got to me I threw up again. Finally he saw me and said he would order some meds to help me out. I was sent to get a scan of my head to make sure everything was ok. When they got me back in the room I was throwing up about every 15 minutes. Originally I thought they would do a scan of my head, see everything was ok, give me a shot and send me home. I was not realizing that this was a much bigger deal than that! So I called my aunt to come help me. I am sooooo lucky to have relatives that live near me! She made it to the hospital and rubbed my neck for me and comforted me. The results from the scan came back clear, and the doctor finally put an IV in me and gave me the real medicines to help me out! Within an hour I was free of pain and nausea, but totally out of it, haha.

We discovered that I had my first migraine ever! Man those things are absolutely miserable! Now when people say that have a migraine I KNOW they are not just complaining they are really going through some intense stuff! I was hospitalized because of a migraine! They think it was caused from a tension headache that built into a migraine. I have been having headaches all day today, too. But I am trying to stay on top of them with medicines so that they don't get out of control and turn into a migraine.

The moral of the story is, TAKE CARE OF YOUR BODY! If you have stress or tension in your muscles, invest in massage therapy or physical therapy. Your body needs to be taken care of, because if its not then your aches and pains will become unmanageable.

So that is my excuse for the week! I worked out faithfully Monday and Tuesday, then the rest of the week I was in a lot of pain and not able to get to the gym. Will you guys please forgive me and let me repent next week? Even though next week is finals so I might not do that great then either... I have also slacked on reading my 26 pages of scriptures every day to accomplish some end of the year goals I have. Oh well, I'll just have to play catch up with that too!

I love you all. Hope everything is going well!