"When do you get to take the gauze out of your cheeks?!?"

So about 3 Weeks ago I had to go through the lovely experience of getting my wisdom teeth removed. I did it through a research company so I actually got paid to do it, instead of having to pay for it. Although it was worth it to get paid to do it, I didn't get to get put to sleep for the surgery. Instead, I got laughing gas and TONS of shots in my cheeks to keep my mouth numb - about 5 times more shots than you would normally get to have your cavities filled, including shots in the roof of my mouth!!! Because of this, my cheeks were EXTRA swollen - the insides of my mouth are actually still a little swollen 3 weeks later! When my mom came to pick me up from the center a day later, this is what they looked like!!!





My mom looked at me, laughed, and said, "When do you get to take the gauze out of your cheeks?!?" Yeah... those are my cheeks, WITHOUT gauze in them!


I also passed out for the first time in my life a couple hours after the surgery! I got up to go to the bathroom and by the time I was done I couldn't even walk back to my room from the bathroom. I was so dizzy, nausious, and my ears were ringing. I leaned my head on the bathroom door to try and work up some strength to walk the whole 10 feet back to my room, and the next thing I remember was I started seeing black spots and I woke up to my head hitting the floor. Luckily instead of falling straight back on my head I landed in a sitting position on the floor first, then my head, so I was ok :)


The best part of it all was coming home to this:












I found these on my counter when my mom brought me home. Tony was originally supposed to pick me up from the center, but he ended up having to work. I walked in and saw these along with my prescriptions already filled and waiting for me. It made my day! I am glad to say I am almost back to normal, and I definitely am glad it's over!

I'm BACK!!!

Ok so, I am finally back to being able to blog! My laptop power supply has been broken since January and I FINALLY got a new one, which means we have the internet again and I can catch up! Many, many things have happened since my last post in January, so over the next few weeks I will be doing a lot of posts of things we have done in the past 8 months! First of all we'll just start with an update of where we are today:

*I am going to school full time at the U (20 credit hours this semester!!!) and will graduate this spring with majors in Speech and Hearing Science and Psychology. I absolutely love school!

*I will also be applying to Graduate School this semester to go on to get my Master's Degree in Speech and Language Pathology and hopefully become a licensed Speech and Language Pathologist! I can't believe I am already applying for Grad School and am so close to being done! Just a couple more years of school!

*I also just got a promotion at my Primary Children's Residential Treatment Center Job. I work full time now, but got to set my own schedule to where I only have to work 3 days a week! And the best part about this is we now have full benefits and I am now eligible for tuition reimbursement, and when I'm in Graduate School they will pay for even more of my school and I will commit to work for IHC for at least a year after I graduate! So this was a very big deal for me to get and has been a great blessing for us that came just when we needed it!

*We go to a new ward (obviously) and we absolutely love it! We have made some friends there and everyone makes us feel so welcome! We are anxiously awaiting our callings :)

*We are also looking into Tony going back into school in the near future! Between our opposite work schedule and school we don't get to see much of each other right now but I love being busy with work and school, it makes me feel so much more productive, and it makes the time we do get to share with each other even better :)

This is what happens when Tony falls asleep around my cousins...

 

 

 

 

HAHA! They all love Tony and want him to babysit them all the time, but this is what happens when he falls asleep around them!