Update

This has been a wild month guys. Thats all I have to say. On a positive note, my head is much better, my hair is growing back around it, and I was able to touch up my color since it was bleached out after pouring peroxide in my hair getting crusted blood out. My bad luck comes in at this point. I was finally cleared to play in my soccer league again after the head thing. So this past sunday I played in our game. I am goalie, and I'd like to think I'm a pretty tough one. Somehow about 20 minutes into the game, a girl that had at least 100 pounds on me came charging at me with the ball. Without thinking of consequences...I did what I had to do to stop her from scoring... This included slamming into her with some pretty intense force. As she went flying, and as I went flying, I was able to slap the ball away in mid air, but that followed by the other player cleating me in the ribs as she went flying.



I have 3 bruised ribs and one fractured. This hurts WAAAAY worse than my head crack. There is no way to be comfortable, it hurts to breathe, and sitting in a desk for 6 hours is not cool. I actually ended up standing for most of the day..which can be tiring. Luckily I'm developing some really awesome friendships with some of the people in my grad program.

I was starting to lose faith that were good people out there, wanting friendships with no agenda. But there have been a few awesome individuals that have come into my life who are just "real". They are the type of people that what you see is what you get and I really appreciate that quality in people.

So...as for the seizures... the overwhelming belief is that the seizures are from a spot in my left lobe that is showing damage. What caused this damage..? Well most of you know that I grew up in a pretty rough home, and I survived a pretty violent assault. So.. between the two of those.. the belief is that this spot occurred, and now it is starting to produce seizures. mostly focal in nature ( Long staring with a little twitching) I'm on topomax, its starting to work, but I still have small episodes.

I start my thesis in a month or so. I'm creating Graduate level curriculum on Developmental Disabilities for the Social Work Department. Sadly that is not part of the current curriculum, and most people go out into the field with little prior education on the topic and not knowing how to treat individuals with developmental disabilities who also need mental health services. So.. I'm going to create curriculum, do pretests and post tests and if the numbers turn out positively I'm going to propose that Sac State initiate that as part of their grad curriculum. I love the idea that I might be able to leave a little bit of myself behind once I graduate, by presenting this curriculum. I hope its a successful project!

So..thats me in a nutshell right now. Crys and I go to Hawaii in a month and a half. We're spending a week in Maui. I've never been to Hawaii so I'm excited! And since taking the Topomax and working out, and eating well I've lost 15 pounds. Im actually starting to like how I look... Though it will now be a while before I can workout or lift anything due to the ribs.. And my birthday is coming up. Its next tuesday. I can't believe how the years slip by.. wild really..

Hope this finds you all doing well. I think about you all often.
Happy Tud