Omaha---so far

Well, I have been in Omaha for a little over a month and so far I LOVE it. I don't necessarily like the humidity but I do love my classmates, classes, my job and everything else about the area. Our first grad class is about to wrap up this week which is just crazy to me. Six weeks has already FLOWN by. This week we start fball two-a-day practices which is going to keep us EXTREMELY busy but thats okay. I knew what I was getting into when I applied to the program. We got our fall assignments. I got UNO fball team so I will be staying on campus and working with them. I was a tad nervous when I first found out, but I am working under our head ATC so I will be learning alot which is exactly what I need. I want to absorb as much info as I possibly can. Fall classes start Aug 23 so thats great! Because I got assigned fball I won't be able to go anywhere for Thanksgiving, but that's okay there are a few other grads that can't either so we are going to do some sort of dinner together. Thankfully I will be home for about 3 weeks around xmas which I can't wait for. I truly miss my family sooo much and it's been very hard for me to be so far away. Especially with my parents, sis & bro because of how close I am to them. It's been hard, but Skype & cell phones are helping as much as possible.

As for my health-well it hasn't exactly gotten much better than my 8 week post op appt. I am having a great deal of pain on my left side (meaning my left ovary) and I am not enjoying the side effects of having cysts burst. I have consulted my doc back home and now I have to go see a new doc here in Omaha to see what he/she thinks the next step will be. I know I am only 5 months post op, but I shouldnt be in this much pain except for the fact that we knew my ovaries would be a problem. So we will see what this new doc says and what happens next. I hate being sick, I wish it would have been fully taken care of but I do understand why they left my ovaries-just sucks that now I might need to have them taken out and I will have to go through yet another surgery and recovery when I don't really have the time.

I have added some pics to here of some of the things we've been up to around Nebraska. So hopefully you enjoy. I will try my best to keep updating this but it is a tad hard with how busy we've been lately! MISS EVERYONE!!

Rosenblatt Stadium which is where the aaa team plays

us girls out in Lincoln for the first time

and the girls again (these are some of my classmates)

us girls @ wine tasting for Katie & Stacy's bdays!!

my latest tat #6

Stacy & I-wine tasting

Katie, Stacy, me, heidi & Nate (Heidi's bf)

me & my roomie Katie!!

Bored

Ya know the sucky thing about having such a major surgery is how bored you get. Thank god I was smart and bought my laptop for grad school early and I have that I can play on and surf the interntet with. I have been having so much fun looking at stuff for my apartment in Nebraska. My AMAZING soon-to-be roomie has everything we need for a fully furnished place and lives much closer than I do so she is going to be using her family trailer and bring everything with her. I am flying out there with my mom on July 2nd and she will be there soon after. I am sooo excited...its crazy that I will be leaving in 3 months. Wow. I can't believe that I'll just be picking up my life and leaving for 2 years....Here are some cool things I found for the apartment so far!!!

I was thinking of putting this vinyl quote in the living room of our apartment and then the faith, hope & love below is DEFINETLY going in my room :)

and then the pic below is of the apartment we are hoping to get into....its an old school building thats converted into an apartment complex.

Well that's it for now!! I'll update more later....

New beginnings

Most of you know the very tough medical problems I have been going through over the past 8 years...and you know how tough it has been on me both mentally and physically. On March 15th, I had a hysterectomy because my doctor decided that it was the only thing I had left to cure me. I woke up feeling the same, yet different. I thought I might actually feel the fact that my uterus was gone, but I don't feel that change at all, which I am thinking is a good thing :) Another HUGE plus was what happened that Wednesday. I got an email from the director at Univ of Nebraska-Omaha. I had flown to Omaha 3 weeks ago to interview for their Master's athletic training program. Well, Melanie emailed me to inform me that I had been accepted. I wanted to jump around, but obviously because of the surgery I couldnt do that. So I am officially a Univ of Nebraska-Omaha MAVERICK :) It's pretty exciting....I move there July 1, 2010 and classes start July 12. I just can't believe it. I met a pretty amazing girl when I was there interviewing and we said if we got in we would live together and we BOTH got in so now we are in the process of looking for an apartment for us to live in...I'm pretty excited!!! So I figure since I am moving 1,500 miles away I should start a blog so I can keep in touch with my family and friends while I am gone...so here we go!!