vacation

so i love breaks and vacations. except this one. i LOVE christmas and everything to do with it and no school. well i guess finals were so stressful that i needed to get sick. On Saturday i woke up with a really bad pain in my right side. i just kinda ignored it thinking i need to just eat since i didn't eat dinner on friday night. so i ate breakfast and took a shower. the pain just didn't go away. it was sharp and intense. yes, i missed my cousin's wedding reception. (Sorry Kilie!) stupid pain. i threw up that night and my mom decided to just have me sleep it off, thinking it would get better. well that night i couldn't sleep at all. every way i turned i hurt everywhere. so i woke up on sunday in much worse pain. so we decided to take me to the ER at banner Gateway. so we got into a room pretty quickly. we had the nicest female PA who said it definately looked like appendicitis just by the symptoms. so they got some blood tests and started an IV because i was also super dehydrated. so then i had to get a CT scan. that was the weirdest feeling in the world. they injected this dye stuff in my IV and the nurse said i would get this warm feeling and it would feel like i wet the bed. sure enough it did feel like i did. but i promise i didn't. so when they got the CT back the PA said it early appendicitis so it hadn't ruptured yet. thank goodness! then i started to get a fever. not good!

so i was moved upstairs into the pre-op room so they could prep me for surgery. i was kind of scared, my first time in surgery. first time in a hospital. but the last thing i remember before going was saying bye to my mom and them injecting something into my IV to knock me out. i then woke up in the recovery room with an oxygen mask on. i didn't know if i was in or out of surgery because everything was still blurry and i didn't have my glasses on. then the nurse started talking to me and asking me questions. i was still really out of it. but luckily i didn't do anything crazy.

I was then moved into my room where Mom, Dad, Alison, and Marianne were waiting for me. i was still not really with it, but enough to talk to them. I was then told that my appendix had ruptured while i was there in the hospital, when i got my fever. that means longer stay because all the infection and junk that gets into your body when it ruptures! i was hooked up to so many cords and machines. the doctors then put these things on my legs that inflatted so i didn't get blood clots. it was really uncomfortable, especially with all the other wires. Andrew and DeeDee also came by that night. They got a picture of me, so i will upload it later. but all i did was lay there and watch tv. then i went on a walk with my IV pole and andrew and deedee. let me tell you. it was so so so hard to walk after being operated on and not moving for a while. i was so stiff and in pain. So my nurse gave me some vicodin.that stuff knocks you out.

Dan dropped by later too. my mom stayed the night with me and helped me throughout the rest of the night.

Thinking i was going to have to stay a lot longer, i was just getting comfortable! but around 9 or 10 my surgeon came in and said i could go home!! so we had to wait until Kristen and Marianne came and got me. I was then pushed down in a wheelchair to the car. when i got home i was OUT! my Grandma and aunt came and saw me at my house. so i woke up and was in MAJOR pain. my mom wasn't home with my drugs yet.. ugh! but when she did i was in heaven!

My best friends came and brought me ice cream!! they are so sweet and i love them alot!! anyway so that's how my vacation started.. not very fun. thanks alot finals for doing this to me!!! i will hate you forever!!

anway, i am getting better. still a little stiff and sore and in pain. but other than that i have to take drugs, walk around my street every hour so i heal faster, and make sure im not up too much!

I hope your vacation has been so much better than mine! have a MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

{love always}

melissa

life lately..

Sorry i'm so bad at this thing.. i just don't have time!! anyway so we just had our annual Holiday dinners for choir. they were Tuesday -Thursday. Kristen came on Wednesday and my family came on thursday. it's so fun because at the end of the dinner every choir sings Candlelight Carol and Still Still Still and they ask all the alumni to come sing with their siblings or just the choir. so on Wednesday Kristen came and sang with me and on Thursday Dan did. it was so fun to sing with them!!
We only have ONE more week of school before Christmas break!!! i'm so excited and at the same time so stressed because of finals!! so this weekend and next week are going to be full of studying HARD!! but i am so excited for Christmas! theres only 13 days until Christmas! I love the Christmas season. i love the hallmark christmas movies. i love hot chocolate. i love the chrismas music. i love caroling. i love wearing scarfs and jackets but i don't like the cold. i love family. i just love love love this season!! Last night was our ward Christmas party. it was lots of fun. Santa even came!!!

So i have heard everyone talking about the show Glee and how good it was. so i have been watching it all week! and can i just say I LOVE THAT SHOW!! it is so good. so this week was the season finale. it was so good. im so glad i got into the show!

anyway, thats what i have been up too.. here are some pictures from holiday dinners! me and my friend Alison!

me and joey are gangsters. don't even try to mess with us. you should be jealous.

this is me and joey when we don't have "business" to take care of.

{much love}