Another Almost Done Blog

It is funny reading everyones blogs because everyone it talking about the last two weeks of school. I literally am finishing up my last few assignments and it is so nice! I am most excited about physics coming to an end!!!  All I have standing between me and physics being over is a three minute conversation about my final project. At first I was nervous about it and then I was like whatever...what could they really ask me in three minutes that is super hard to answer and if I don't know the answer maybe I can bs it or just make a joke. In the rest of my classes I pretty much just have finals to take besides finishing my methods paper, which is pretty much done!!

Summa Summa Summaaa TIme

Gosh I am so happy that summer is just right around the corner!! It will be a busy summer because of work and the two online classes I will be taking but everything is better in the summer! I can't wait to be at the river and floating while soaking in as much sun as I can. Then when I am not doing that I will be at music festivals and I loveeeeee music festivals. I am also excited for my job this summer because I will be working at the child development center and I was going to try and pick up a second job but decided to just get more hours at CDC so that means I have weekends off!

Can't believe we will all be on summer break in just two weeks! Also these two weeks are busy weeks for all of us so that means it will fly by.

Wedding Dress Shopping

First off I am not getting married haha. This past weekend I went wedding dress shopping with Scottie's sister, Tara. It was a lot of fun! Tara and her mom were funny to watch because her mom wanted a big ball gown dress and Tara did not. So we went somewhere on Friday and she thought she found THE DRESS but it was more than they wanted to spend. She obviously waited because she had made an appointment for Davids Bridal the next morning. We went to Davids Bridal and she found a dress she liked but still was not the one! We decided to take a break and go to the mall and meet the guys for lunch. Well in the mall there was a alteration/dry cleaner place that made wedding dresses and we decided to go in and they only kept 15 handmade dresses at a time. She tried on two and the second one was actually the one!! It is so beautiful and was actually cheap for it to be handmade! She was so excited and it was such a fun experience! Now I can't wait for the wedding. It is August 8, also didn't realize that she was apparently getting her dress late so that's good to know for the future haha.

SOA

As I have mentioned before I am addicted to Sons of Anarchy. There are seven seasons and the seventh season was the last. It aired this past year, which means it was not on amazon prime, netflix, or any streaming site like that and that meant I was having to wait to watch that season. I was debating about buying it because I want all of the seasons anyway and a couple of weeks ago Scottie told me he got me a surprise (and I love surprises) and the surprise was season 7!!! Needless to say I was really happy and he was too because he loves SOA also. This season has been crazy so far! We have been trying to watch it slow instead of rushing through it since it is the last season ever! But rumor has it that they are coming out with a movie and that would be awesome.

Just one more night

So Scottie and I came to Charlotte Thursday night because on Friday he dj'd at Chop Shop in Noda and it was awesome. We had a lot of fun and had green room access so we got to meet G. Jones which was amazing!!!! Then on Saturday we slept in and went to THE DISCOVERY PLACE and that is in all caps because it was awesome haha (i am such a little kid). After that we had dinner at the mall with Scottie's mom and went shopping because we all love Southpark. Now it's Sunday and we celebrated Scottie's dads birthday (it's tomorrow) and since it was raining we decided to stay one more night and we are getting up in the morning and head back to the high country.

favorite meme ever

also this is my favorite meme ever so I thought I would share since my last few blogs have been depressing and boring





Hope yall laugh as hard as I do about this!

I feel like...

A CHICKEN WITH ITS HEAD CUTOFF!
I thought I was ahead of the game and getting stuff done early, but that is impossible to do this semester. Between homework, studying, applying for jobs, starting a new job, meetings, and other life duties I have just been nonstop! I feel like I can barely find time to shower (but don't worry I have haha just have been like 5 minute showers). One good thing is that it is almost summer and I am excited for summer, just not looking forward for my two online classes. I am excited for working this summer because I love to make money. Just eleven days left of classes so exams will be here before we know it and then exams will be stressful and fly by then it will all be over!!!

POTS III

Well now I have had POTS for well over a year now and I pray everyday that I will eventually grow out of it. I try to stay positive and I think about how strong of a person it has made me and I also have became very appreciative of my health. It has been a long journey, I have lost friends because of it, missed out on many things, realized how great some of my true friends are, and grown as a person.

I am thankful for my friends and family who have helped me with this battle, but the ultimate MVP is Scottie. I would not be able to do half the things I have done if it was not for him and I can not thank him enough for everything he has done for me!

I do not want pity out of people because I have a syndrome I just like to get the awareness out there because a lot of people go to the doctor for the same symptoms and most doctors just say you are crazy and have anxiety, which is not true and the medicine they give does not help. Also I just want people to keep in mind to not judge people so quickly and remember that they also might have a health issue going on.

POTS II

So I will continue my story of having pots...  
The first time I realized I was really battling with my health was the summer prior to being diagnosed and happened to be at Carowinds. I am from the eastern part of NC, so growing up I always went to Busch Gardens because it was close to where I am from. But Scottie is from Charlotte and his mom lives about 15 minutes from Carowinds, so I begged him to take me and he finally did...we were waiting in line for our first ride and all of a sudden I felt really bad and had to run and get water because I knew i was about to pass out. I felt all the color leave my face and if I did not get water soon, it was going to be my face against the concrete. Well I drank water and ate a pretzel then felt good enough to try and enjoy the rest of the day. 

After this I still just kept feeling horrible and could not figure out what was going on. I had a appointment coming up for my yearly check up so I was just waiting to talk to her about it. In the meantime I was telling my best friend about the symptoms and she had already been diagnosed with POTS (she has the kind due to allergies) and she was convinced that I also had POTS. Went to the doctor and she ran test and most came back fine except for my EKG, so she set me up with a cardiologist. Went to the cardiologist and they set up a bunch of test and they came back negative and he confirmed that I did have POTS. So he put me on medicine which helped at first, but now it doesn't really work the best so I just have to eat a strict diet, drink lots of water, and eat lots of salt. The down fall is even though I do all of that some days I still do not feel the greatest, which sucks. 

to be continued....

POTS

Since I have not really had much going on because I have had so much school work this week, I have decided to write about POTS. I am not talking about the drug I am talking about Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome. I was diagnosed with this syndrome November of 2014 and had been battling the symptoms for over a year prior to that. There are two different types one is caused by your heart, which is what I have and the other is from allergies. It is a very complicated syndrome and I still do not fully understand it, but apparently when I was growing my heart did not shift into my rib cage like it was suppose to. Since it did not do that my heart just beats funny which causes me to pass out very easily and my body passes out because my heart starts beating so fast to the point where if I did not pass out I would have a heart attack. Other symptoms are that I am thirsty all of the time (that's why you see me drinking water all of the time), I see floating spots, I get fatigue very quick, frequent headaches, and loss of appetite. Another aggravating aspect of having POTS is since my heart rate can not get but so high I can not exercise much or do things like going on a hike. 

That is all I will bore you with for now, and will pick up on my next blog! Enjoy this beautiful weather everyone!!