End of semester busyness

First things first: The MRI.

It went fine. Carebear came with me for very much needed moral support and waited in waiting rooms for about 3 hours! The injection was definitely the worst part of the ordeal. I got all dressed up in lovely hospital scrubs and tried to calm myself down. I was doing pretty good until I got into the terrifying room. There was a raised table for me with bright lights and shiny metal. There were also lots of other contraptions that looked scary. There were two nurses in the room and one was preparing something (i assume one of the needles, I didn't look). The other nurse proceeded to tell me what they were going to do to me. She said that they were going to give me a shot to numb my leg. Then they were going to put something in my vein and put the dye in. When she told me that I started freaking out. Well not freaking out really, just crying while trying to not cry. Yes I am a baby I have embraced it. I think I really took the nurses and the doctor off guard with the crying. They were really good though and just talked to me about whatever else so that I wouldn't think about the horror to come. The doctor that did the injections was great. He just told me when he was about to do something but not what he was doing. (I've realized that it's not the needle that scares me so much as the thought of something completely unnatural and foreign in my bloodstream. Gross!)

After that was over I was fine. I wasn't even worried at all about the actual MRI. They wheeled me to the MRI area. (It was amusing being in a wheelchair. They don't like you to move the dye around.) My MRI was fine. It lasted 50 minutes and was sounded like a tripped out video game. It's really loud and there are a bunch of different sounds that sound like video game sounds. For a while it sounded like a machine gun, then a duck, then some space sounds. Funny huh? I kept my eyes closed so that I wouldn't get claustrophobic and I was fine. The hardest part about the MRI was not being able to move for that long. Keeping my arms above my head for 50 minutes was especially annoying.

After that it was done. Carebear and I went to lunch and then I went to class and back to work. My thigh was numb for quite a few hours, which was weird, and I had the blue disinfectant still on my leg from the injection, but other than that I was fine. I'll find out in a few weeks what they found on the MRI. I have decided though that if they don't find anything I'm done with tests. It is just not that big of a problem to spend so much time and money trying to figure it out. If they don't know what it is and can't fix it then I'll just never run again. I most definitely will rock climb because that doesn't hurt it much.

In other news: End of semester blues :(

I had a wonderful weekend. I went to my friend's garage sale with Carebear and got some great things. Then we tried to see some more sales but almost everything had packed up. I took a short nap at Carebear's then watched Bucket List. It was really really good! Made me cry but what doesn't really? The rest of the day was spent revising a paper, swimming, and eating dinner. (Note: I did not work on the paper that I should have started:) Sunday was a lot busier than I had anticipated. I went to church then had ward council then went visiting teaching then got visit taught then went to Carebears to make banana bread then went and got dinner in the oven then went to visit Brooke and cute little Ryan, then got David and had dinner and relaxed a bit by watching some MANEATERS on Animal Planet. (If that sentence sounded busy and drawn out that's because that's how the day was.) I was a great day and I enjoyed it but again didn't start my paper at all. Oops!

Now I'm at work and am taking a break from working on said paper :) It shouldn't be too bad it's just 6 pages and I have plenty of notes for it. The problem is that I just don't feel like writing it.

I'll be busy for 4 more days and then it's over. Class will be done and finals will be history. The summer will be mine (before 8am and after 5pm)!