I am such a terrible blogger. So lets see what happened:
I went to Maryland! I have no clue how I forgot to write about this! I'm sure most of you read Julie's blog and heard all about my amazing trip. Of course the one time I travel by myself, we have one of the biggest snowstorm. So my original flight was delayed in a hour and 1/2. So Julie and Matt were so wonderful and rearranged their plans so I could arrive earlier. I arrived and they made me feel at home right away. I enjoyed getting a different point of view of CCMS, I got to see someone with it and see maybe how my parents were with me when I was Abby's age. I feel as if Ab and I have a strong connection, she is young but she understands. One of my favorite memories was me with Abby's cousin Anna, (same age) was sitting on my lap and Abby pushed her off so she could sit on my lap. I couldn't thank Julie and Matt enough for that experience. I had the best semester of my life. I made new friends, fought with some and made up. My grades weren't as good but still good! I will have a roommate next year and I am so excited! I cannot wait for school to come. This summer instead of being a housekeeper (if you read last year you know I hated that), I am a hostess. I absolutely love it, and most of my co-workers with an exception of a few (wherever I will work in my future there will always be people I don't like). One night though it was awful. Two people this specific night flat out asked me how old I was. I was taken back so much, because here I am professionally dress and acting like a women and they ask me. I laughed and smiled and said "I'm 19". I was kinda in a bad mood that night, and my boss could tell. I figured he would tell me "Em, you just have to ignore it". He took me back because he told me to tell them "You never ask a women's age". I liked that! The past two weeks were exhausting! We went to Italy the last week of June, and came back two days before my birthday! I'm getting a computer with more storage, so once I get the pictures on it, I'll post some for you all to see!
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I know I'm late but I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas, I know I did! I cannot believe 2013 is almost over. I cannot wait for 2014 because I get to start it off by going on my first trip by myself! On thursday I will be traveling on a plane, by myself, to Baltimore to spend a nice long weekend with The Leach Family! I finally get to meet them and I cannot wait!!!!!!
Also not to be a bragger but I wanted to mention that I got a 3.8 GPA.....AHHHH. I cannot believe it. My lowest grade was a B+ (stupid B+ in history class) I kept meaning to do a list of what I'm thankful, well obviously November ended but why limit to what your thankful for only in November. So it here is a short list of what I Emily Elizabeth Durrant am thankful for:
1) My parents, everyone can say that they wouldn't be where they are without them but for me it has more meaning. My parents made choices, decisions that determined my fate. They made choices where they honestly didn't know if they were good ones. But they made the hardest choices, and they all seemed to work, because I'm here. They never once gave up on me, and I couldn't be more grateful for that. 2) My baby sister, Hannah. She keeps me sane, and loves me no matter what. She stands up for me even though she is younger, I would be lost without her. 3) College, sometimes I still can't believe that I'm in my second year of college. So many thought I wouldn't be here, and I'm proving them wrong. 4) Oddly enough, I'm thankful for the people who never believed in me, truthfully I wouldn't be where I am without them. They gave me strength to get where I am today, even though they never thought it would happen. 5) My doctors who also never gave up on me. 6) My friends from home and my new friends at school. I have friendships from home that I know I will never lose. I made incredible friendships at school. They treat me normal and love me for who I am. 7) Lastly I'm thankful for the two important people I lost in my life. Caylie and my grandfather. I'm thankful for the time that I did have with them even though I could've spent forever with them. They both taught me a lot about who I am, I know they are looking down and watching me. I hope everyone had an amazing Thanksgiving, and thought about what your thankful. I survived. After a terrible cold and having back pain on top of it, it was not a good time for me. I don't get colds or sick like that, and I have to admit I was baby about it. I haven't had pain in my back since like two weeks, I'm so incredibly happy over that. Although my doctor said I could go months without pain and then have days or weeks with it. All of my life I have lived in the moment and thats what I am doing, I am relaxing and not worrying about the pain coming back.
However I am counting down the days until Thanksgiving and Christmas Break. Only two more full weeks of school till Thanksgiving Break, and once I come back after that two weeks of classes and then finals break! I cannot believe how fast this semester is flying by! I think it flew by because I have made a new amazing friend, who I hang out with all of the time. I'm not spending every night alone anymore waiting for morning to come. She has became easily one of my best friends. I hope everyone is doing well! Talk to you all soon! Well if I told you a week ago my plans for my Fall Break, guarantee you they wouldn't be what actually happened. I was so excited to come home, my only class on thursday was cancelled and one class on Friday was cancelled. I figured it was pointless to stay all day Thursday and Friday, for just one class! I was excited to sleep in my own bed, and get an amazing goodnight sleep. That quite never happened.
I been having pain in my hip and back for about a week and 1/2 now, but stupid me never thought anything about it. I just thought maybe I pulled a muscle or been sleeping on it wrong. The two hour drive home, killed me. I was in so much pain, that I almost called my parents to pick me up somewhere, but I stuck to the drive. I was in a ton of pain by the time I got home, I tried to relax but couldn't get comfortable. My dad came home and saw that I was crooked and bent over on my right side. He was concerned about the metal rods on the bottom of my spine (where my pain was), he thought maybe one of them got loose. We ended up going to the ER at Albany Medical Center, where my mom works (pre-op). Not much happened there besides me missing the whole NY giants loose, which I apparently didn't miss much because they lost once again. Anyways I got x-rays there, and just took Motrin. X-rays showed all my rods intact but a curve on the top of my spine. We made an appointment on Friday to see my orthopedics (Doctor Emons) out in Boston. He got us in the very same day! Which worried me because he wanted to see me right away. We went out and he looked at my X-rays, he said the rods were fine and the curve on my top was fine. He did notice that I may have a ruptured disc which is by my rod. He said the pain would go away soon, and I'm still waiting for it go away. I haven't slept well in days, it's better for me to walk around instead of resting. After a couple hours of sleeping I wake up in pain and can't fall back to sleep. Emons wanted me to get an MRI and we decided that I would do that at home. I had it today and let me tell you those things are scary! I'm usually a pretty relaxed patient but I was quite scared and nervous during that! So that is my "relaxed break", I go back to school tomorrow. I'll keep you updated on my MRI. P.S that is summary, especially since I don |
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