Vacation!

Well, school is official done for the spring semester! I couldn't be more glad/sad. I'm glad because I can sleep in and not worry about school work. I'm sad because now I have a lot of extra time and I'm not going to know what to do with it!

In a week I will be going in for surgery! If you follow my blog, and I don't know who wouldnt cuz it's oh so funny, then you know about my back and how it's all broken and what not. Basically, I have a herniated disk in my spine and it's soooo big that it's pinching some nerves which cause my left leg (from my hip to my ankle) hurt. Not only that, but I am unable to sit for an extended period of time, I can't run, exercise, stretch or pretty much exist without being in pain. I had cortisone injections right into the disk twice which was supposed to make the disk shrink I guess, but it didnt. The pain in my leg was lessened considerably which made me oh so happy! But my movement is still restricted and if I move around a lot my back and leg will start to hurt. The worst pain was when I had to sit for a long time, like when I was in class for 6 hours a day! At the end of the day I was in SO MUCH PAIN. Can you imagine? Not being able to SIT?? But after the shots it got better, thank goodness!!

Anyway, the only other thing to do is go in for a discectomy. What that means is that the doctor (who is SUPER HAWT) is gonna cut my back open and shave off (his words) part of the herniated disk stuffs, so the stuff that is hitting my nerve. By getting rid of that extra material, my nerves will be free to do their nervy thing and my leg will hopefully stop hurting and I'll be able to stretch any which way I want! The surgery is scheduled for Wednesday 23 as 11:30 AM. It's an outpatient procedure unless there are complications and hopefully there wont be! I've been to so many doctors in the past week and a half getting all sorts of different tests. I still need to go to a couple more appointments before surgery on Wednesday. I'm kind of freaking out about surgery because I hate going to the doctor...I guess if I had gone to the doctor the first time my back hurt I wouldnt be in this situation... BUT, after a lot of freaking out I think I'm more anxious than nervous about it... but it's still scary! The first week after surgery I wont be able to sit at all. So I will be chillin on the couch being awesome. I wont be able to sit for more than 20 minutes at a time for a month. A FULL recovery takes about 3 months (there's physical therapy involved and junk), so after that I will be able to move any which way I want and do back flips and all that noise.

The past couple of weeks have been great because I'm kind of trying to squeeze in a lot of adventures before surgery. Because I will be bed ridden for a while and OH YEAH Im gonna miss like three weeks of work!!! That part is pretty exciting! But yeaaaah. It's been a fun couple of weeks, and the last day of my pre surgery awesomeness will be Tuesday D:

WELL, here are some pics of the stuffs I've been doing!!

Sitting on the couch (I love this pic!)

Disneyland (on the carousel) 

Dinner at Oceanside Pier

We saw surfing dolphins!

Dodgers game with Joanne THANKS JOANNE!

The Blind Side on the BIG SCREEN

Angels game (they lost :(

Chocolate fondue and champagne to celebrate the end of the semester!

And that's about it for now. It really feels like, for the first time since i was in high school, I'm going to have a for real real, not for play play, vacation. 2-3 weeks of no work or school. Just me, doing absolutely NOTHING. I will enjoy it as much as I can!!!