Hello, all!
Thank you so much for all of your calls/texts/IMs/facebook messages/etc. through my recovery! I'm doing really well--my throat still hurts quite a bit, but the rest of me is feeling great! My cast and splints come off on Tuesday the 3oth, hopefully. It will be very nice to have everything out of and off of my nose, so I can maybe start breathing through my nose FINALLY!!
I received my flight receipt and luggage tags for Jerusalem in the mail today, which makes leaving so soon seem SO real and scary and tangible. The surgery has distracted me from thinking at all about Jerusalem, so I feel totally unprepared and not at all ready to leave!! I know that in a week, once I am totally recovered and feeling a lot better, I will be so super excited and ready to leave, but for now, all I can think about is getting better and breathing again! It's crazy to think that in a little bit more than two weeks, I will be sleeping in my dorm on Mt. Scopus in Israel!! It's a pretty bizarre feeling, but I am definitely ready for a change and for a break.
Next month in Israel! Eeeee!
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Surgery!
The day of surgery has almost arrived! I am so excited to get it over with and be on the road to recovery and am anxiously anticipating the way I will feel after all is said and done!
I go in tomorrow at 6:30 AM for my septoplasty and the removal of my adenoids (doesn't 'adenoid' sound like some kind of space craft in a Star Trek-y world??). All in all, the surgery will last about 2 hours and is outpatient so I'll leave the hospital once I'm finished in the OR.
They project recovery to be about a week until I can have the cast and splints out, and another 4 or 5 days after that till the bruises are totally gone. I am just hoping I can be on the road to feeling better soon after the bruising goes down, and in enough time to prepare and pack away my life for 5 months! (I'm secretly hoping not to look like I was hit by a truck in time for New Year's. And if that's not the case, I have already made my friends promise that no pictures are to be taken of me looking like a crazy!) .
I'm feeling a little bit nervous to be put under anesthetic, but mostly really excited for the surgery to be over and done with, and to be on my way to breathing better and not being sick so often!!
I go in tomorrow at 6:30 AM for my septoplasty and the removal of my adenoids (doesn't 'adenoid' sound like some kind of space craft in a Star Trek-y world??). All in all, the surgery will last about 2 hours and is outpatient so I'll leave the hospital once I'm finished in the OR.
They project recovery to be about a week until I can have the cast and splints out, and another 4 or 5 days after that till the bruises are totally gone. I am just hoping I can be on the road to feeling better soon after the bruising goes down, and in enough time to prepare and pack away my life for 5 months! (I'm secretly hoping not to look like I was hit by a truck in time for New Year's. And if that's not the case, I have already made my friends promise that no pictures are to be taken of me looking like a crazy!) .
I'm feeling a little bit nervous to be put under anesthetic, but mostly really excited for the surgery to be over and done with, and to be on my way to breathing better and not being sick so often!!
Thursday, December 18, 2008
My first post!
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"The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination." -Don Williams, Jr.
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Hello, friends and family who I love so much!
So I am leaving for Jerusalem in exactly 25 days. I can't believe that it is so soon and so far away! It still hasn't hit me quite yet that I will be spending an entire 5 months in a foreign country, away from the people that have started to become my family at Pitt and the place I have started to call home. Leaving Pittsburgh for was a fairly surreal experience, and it is incredible to try to wrap my head around the fact that I will not be back in Oakland for 8 months, at which time I will be a SENIOR IN COLLEGE?!
Because I'm having surgery in 6 days (nothing too serious! Having my septum straightened out and my adnoids removed--all outpatient), I have to start getting all of my stuff together to be prepared to pack/to start the daunting undertaking before my surgery! Eek!
Such menial things are starting to become worrisome--what luggage do I bring with me? Do I pack toiletries from the US or buy them once I get there?? So many tiny, minor details to consider as I begin to pack my life away in two duffels, each no larger than 62 inches or heavier than 70 pounds, for 5 months.
So welcome to the adventure. I hope you'll bear with me as I put my ramblings onto paper (screen) about this experience. Once I figure out how to, I will try to add pictures and fun things I find along the way!
"The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination." -Don Williams, Jr.
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Hello, friends and family who I love so much!
So I am leaving for Jerusalem in exactly 25 days. I can't believe that it is so soon and so far away! It still hasn't hit me quite yet that I will be spending an entire 5 months in a foreign country, away from the people that have started to become my family at Pitt and the place I have started to call home. Leaving Pittsburgh for was a fairly surreal experience, and it is incredible to try to wrap my head around the fact that I will not be back in Oakland for 8 months, at which time I will be a SENIOR IN COLLEGE?!
Because I'm having surgery in 6 days (nothing too serious! Having my septum straightened out and my adnoids removed--all outpatient), I have to start getting all of my stuff together to be prepared to pack/to start the daunting undertaking before my surgery! Eek!
Such menial things are starting to become worrisome--what luggage do I bring with me? Do I pack toiletries from the US or buy them once I get there?? So many tiny, minor details to consider as I begin to pack my life away in two duffels, each no larger than 62 inches or heavier than 70 pounds, for 5 months.
So welcome to the adventure. I hope you'll bear with me as I put my ramblings onto paper (screen) about this experience. Once I figure out how to, I will try to add pictures and fun things I find along the way!
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