Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Chapter 30: Limp to the Finish Line
It's the middle of April. This is the time when my academic plane does a spinning nose dive and crashes into the end of finals week. We have 2 and a half weeks of classes left and finals week and I will be officially done with my 3rd year of college. The only thing I am sad about is that I have one more til I even start my post grad. Having said that, I am in no big hurry to get finished with school. I was actually thinking about how school is so much better than working in the real world. I mean granted, I will be making more than 12,000 dollars a year, and I guess that will be nice, but to be honest, the fact that I want a family is a far greater motivation for me to finish school and urk my way up into the higher earning bracket than simply having more disposable income. I mean, right now I am at a place in my life where outside a new car or a huge TV or pool or something, I can pretty much afford whatever I want. The reason being, I don't really want a lot of things. Maybe that changes as time goes on. In the mean time, I am just going to enjoy being in school and having summers off and getting to spend lots of time with my awesome wife. Now if I could just get healthy. I don't know why health is such an easy thing to take for granted. You really don't appreciate how nice it is to not be in constant pain until you are contantly in pain. That being said I acknowledge that there are millions of people a lot worse off than me. It's just hard to keep that kind of perspective when you live in such a padded "All Amercian" existence. I guess I will just keep hoping and praying that my back and knee and foot will get better and that eventually I will be able to stop taking 12 ibuprofen (I call them I-B-Potions) a day. Until then, I will hope and pray my stomache doesn't shred.
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3 comments:
Wow 12 ibuprofen a day. I would be worried about your liver too. I know what you mean on the health front. I am battling this Hashimoto's and it's kicking my butt. I have to take a synthetic hormone and it's only taking the edge off. Not fun. Hang in there.
Christin
You need to go into student health and get that looked at. 12 I B Potions a day is going to give you kidney stones. (F.Y.I. They are spikey and you have to pee them out.) There's an episode of Modern Family where Phil has them if you want to reference the pain that they cause. That's my only reference for now because I haven't had them. But, I was popping potions in high school for my sciatic nerve pain for a while. Twelve steps later, I was able to overcome them and I had Bishop Clark's permission to bless the sacrament again. ...I really hope I don't get kidney stones.
I've been to student health and they refered me to a chiropracter and a physical therapist. The chiropracter adjusted me and that helped for a little while. The physcial therapist did NOTHING and I didn't want to pay $200 twice more for them to continue to do nothing. So I don't really know what to do. I am also getting numbness in parts of my back and fingers and toes. I really don't know what to do
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