The excitment from the past couple weeks

I'll start this post in order bringing you up to date on everything.

First, on Wednesday, August 25th at 10:05pm my brother returned from serving a 2 year mission as a representative from our Church. See here for more information on Missionary Work and his purpose in sharing the gospel message. As you already know, these past two years have been a little less than normal for me and my family. Through emails, letters and talking with him on Mother's Day and Christmas, we've kept him updated on life. But, needless to say, I was ecstatic to finally see him! He had 9 days to see everyone, pack, and head on the road to college. So, we packed as much as possible into those short couple of days.
Which, brings me to the second exciting event. I went swimming for the first time in 2 years!!! Due to my central line, I was not able to submerge it in water to avoid infection etc. I love the water! So, my sister, brother, and niece went swimming at a friends pool. It was so awesome to back in the water.

After a week of parties, seeing friends, family, packing etc. Me, Daniel, and my dad headed off for college. I survived the 30 hour road trip(2000 miles), although I was way ready to get out and walk around by the end. It actually wasn’t too bad as I studied nursing notes, visited with them, and slept. We arrived at BYU-Idaho on Labor Day. The next couple days were unpacking, shopping with the other billion mom/students at the 1 Walmart in town, meeting my sweet roommates, etc. On Wednesday, I started orientation for this new semester of nursing. I started out with a bang as Wednesday was orientation from 7-1, Th 7-5, and F 7-12. Then, I spent 4 hours in the nursing lab getting re-acquainted with various procedures/skills. Needless to say, by Friday night, I needed a break! Saturday, I worked on nursing all day since I had 5 assignments due the next week. I’ve said that if I didn’t know that nursing was my passion, I’d dropped out a long time ago because it is stressful and busy!

At this moment, things have slowed down a little to where I feel that I actually have 15 mins to write this post. Next week will be crazy again, but that’s nursing school. Overall, things are going well. I’m happy to be back up here, happy to have my brother 5 mins down the road, happy to see old friends, happy to finish this degree and start helping others.

My health seems to be doing well. My skin did not like the change from the humid weather of TN to dry Idaho. Dry skin can set off Graph vs host, so I have to be diligent on applying lotion. I’m holding off on going down on my immune suppressants till my body adjust and doesn’t freak out. I felt like I had a cold the second day of being here(It was freezing the first couple days) so I got some Vit C and it has done the trick! This past week, the weather has been cold in the morning and beautiful in the afternoon! It must know I love the sun! I’m savoring up these beautiful days because any day it could be freezing!