Spring-Fall 2012

     

    Jan. 2012- family vacation to Riviera Maya, Mexico. about 45 minutes south of Cancun. We went swimming with the dolphins, snorkeled, parasailing and deep sea fishing. oh, and I met a french boy at our resort. BEST vacation I have ever had. not because it was all inclusive and i was drunk 90 percent of the time, but because it was quality time with my parents. We returned to Missouri with snow on the ground. The next week I returned to school, and Mom started her Chemo pills.

     February-May2012 = big blur. Got a job at QT. Realized Tyler has not changed. Start playing spring coed softball. Accepted to UMKC as a pre-nursing major. 

     May-August 2012- another blur. worked all summer at QT, went to Springfield and partied a couple times. Met a really sweet southern boy that I like. a lot.... took a summer class, graduated with my associates. In June, Mom's MRI shows that the tumor in mom's hip has regressed significantly. Doctor tells her to take a break from the chemo pills, come back for another MRI in 3 months. 

     August-September 2012- Started attending UMKC. love it. miss MSU, but this will do for now. I've met some pretty cool people, I'm starting to fit in. Mom's tumor is completely gone. Just has to go get MRI's every three months... Still talking to that boy from Springfield. He's the sweetest boy I have ever met. I can't wait to see him this weekend. 

Since Last Year....

Since my last post, many things have changed. shocker. haha. Where to begin?

Fall/Winter 2011-

   Aug, 2011- started attending MCC (all of the campuses). 

   Sept. 2011- Met my good friend Kimberly. Found out my dog, Blaze, had serious degeneration in his hips and a possible tumor in his left hip.. So like the dog-loving family we are, we considered all options to help him. We ended up taking him to a vet in Waldo where they do acupuncture therapy. It ended up helping Blaze more than we thought, we were beginning to be hopeful. Then he started losing weight and afraid to go down the back stairs to go outside... 

   Oct 2011- drunkfest. had way too much fun going out with my friends in September and October. October 13th was Blaze's 11th birthday. I went to Three Dog Bakery on the Plaza and got him some yummy treats... Started talking to Tyler again. Got mad at and hurt by him (again). Stopped talking to Tyler. 

    Nov. 2011- Sun 11/12/11 noticed that Blaze was limping again, and would not put weight on his bad leg at all. Took him to the vet the next day (mon 11/13). He had broken his femur, we had to leave him at the vet overnight. Tuesday 11/14 the vet called us back and told us that we could amputate his bad leg at the femoral head as long as he had no lesions in his lungs or further up the spine and that this would require a full body scan. So we said ok. At this point, we just wanted him to be comfortable. Wednesday, November 15th, 2011. my 21st birthday. At 4pm we get a call from the vet. His cancer was spreading up the spine into his brain. There was no point in surgery because we couldn't guarantee he we would live another 3 months with brain cancer. We put my 11-year-old dog to sleep on my 21st birthday. He was my 10th birthday present. I get a job at bath and body works in lee's summit.

     Dec. 2011- The week after Thanksgiving, Mom goes to the doctor she had been seeing for her hip, she thinks she pulled a muscle. They schedule an X-ray and an MRI. Cancer. I quit my job at bath and body works, while Dad plans a vacation to Mexico for the first of January. December 26th, 2011. Tyler texts me and asks to see me. Apologizes and cries in my arms. I take him back.