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Name: Abigail
Country: United States
State: Arkansas
Metro: arkadelphia
Birthday: 6/30/1987
Gender: Female
Interests: driving with the windows down and the music up, Piggy, Alpha Xi Delta, Sigma Phi Epsilon, my music: Stavesacre, Skillet, Eisley, Kirk Franklin, The Eagles, Switchfoot, Keane, Dave Matthews, David Crowder Band, The Police, Nora Jones, John Mayer, John Legend, Michael Buble, ......my best friends Chelsey, Kayla T., and Jess......rainy days, bubble baths, hugs, letters, .......gahh i ran out....i'll get back with you. : p
Expertise: listening and giving advice- ask me ANYthing!
Occupation: Student
Industry: Medical
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AIM:  Abbaliscious411
Member Since:
7/29/2004
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| blah...updates and suchWell, I've had an amazing summer. I definitely made the right decision about coming to Tanako. Sooo...time for the updates and such. My mom is fabulous. She had her first reconstructive surgery on July 3, so it's almost been a month. She has healed beautifully and we expect her second surgery sometime in september. My dad is still loving his job, and both parents are loving Hot Springs. The only problem is: we still haven't sold the house in Texarkana...grr. Keep praying for that. Megan is still doing well in Little Rock.... ummm. dont know what else to update on. oh, megan and i will receive the results of our genetic testing on august 27, which also happens to be the first day of class. so i am bound to be pretty stressed. i'll have a carton of cigs ready, just to be safe. So if you pray for us about that, don't pray about what the results will be, because that can't be changed. Instead, pray about what we DO with the results.
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| summer at last! so, another semester down, two more to go! i can't believe i'm finally a senior. just 28 hours away!  summer is amazing because i finally get to READ! books that i want to read! and i am starting off with the 7th Harry Potter, because i read it right when it came out last summer, and i was on drugs from my wisdom-teeth surgery...so i dont remember much! haha
well summer is finally here and i thought i would update everybody on what i'm gonna be doing! well i have been working at the hospital since christmas, and i will continue doing that, but my main job will be at Camp Tanako! it's a church camp that i went to almost every summer of my childhood, and i am SO glad i get to go back for one last fun summer before having to grow up. I really wanted the girls' counselor position, but they actually needed a Health Hut person...and they said i was an answer to their prayers, so i couldn't say no. so basically my job will be to live in the Health Hut and administer any meds the kids have and tend to any scraped knees or bee stings or snake bites...etc.
I have probably told everyone this, but my dad recently got a new job with the city of Hot Springs, and he LOVES it! He told me that he gets to do everything that he wanted to do, and none of the stuff he hated doing in Hope! So this was a great thing for us, and i am very happy for him! This has presented a few challenges for my family...selling the house in texarkana, finding a new job for my mom in hot springs, and finding a new house in hot springs. We still havent sold the old house, but we found a rent house in hot springs, and still havent figured out the mom thing yet. She wanted to wait to start a new job till after the house sold and she had her reconstructive surgery....then her surgeon moved. Soooo she found a new one from big Baptist in Little Rock, and she has an appointment this coming thursday. So, pray for the house to sell, and the surgery to finally get scheduled!
Also one more thing, my sister and I have an appointment with the genetics doc at UAMS on June 4th. This is when we will get our blood drawn for the BRCA-1 gene test. (the breast cancer gene). We probably won't get the results for at least 6 weeks, but I know it will be on all of our minds till then. | | |
| friday, december 7, 2007good news: my grandfather's cancer is completely gone and the doctors don't think it will come back! multiple myloma is normally a cancer that you have until you die...so even the doctors are calling this a miracle! 
so all i have left in this semester is two final days....easier said than done. (i should be studying now, but a short break never hurt anyone)
im going to a second interview at st. joe's on tuesday, even though the boss lady already told me i had the job, i still have to do a drug test and some more paperwork. i just cant wait to get started... glad to spend the holidays somewhere other than old navy, 3 years of that gets very old.
im also moving into an apartment by myself, which is good because i cannot live with megan for another month, and bad because they wont allow pets. but my scholarship covers rent in these apartments because they are so close to campus, and i figure its a better deal and i can go home to see toby anytime i want. so there, im going to be alone... with no dog and no rent. | | |
| life update... Friday, November 9, 2007I have many things to update...
My mom had her big surgery (double mastectomy, full abdominal hyserectomy, oophrectomy, salpingectomy) exactly 2 weeks ago. She is phenomenal! She just got her drains taken out, so she is free and happy. The doctors say she is recovering beautifully, so i am very proud of her and thankful to the doctors, and my family for assisting her in the recovery process! Her plastic surgeon said that he wants to do the reconstruction in about 2 months, so that is a blessing! We've had SO many people praying and thinking about our family and my mom, so thanks to all of you who have been there for us!
Also school is going well. It is soooo tough, ya'll dont even understand! But, i did start my first iv yesterday, and the RN said it was perfect! so that makes me very happy! i'm about to start talking to the nurse recruiter at st. joe's (the hospital where i have both my med/surg and mother-baby clinicals), so im hoping that i will get a job there as a tech/pcp for winter break.
i've also experienced the recent demise of a relationship, which was very emotionally exhausting. i've pretty much learned to never ever again make plans involving anyone but myself. but i've been able to re-focus my attention and time on my schoolwork, which has improved greatly. so moral of the story, when someone slams a door in your face, other doors may open.... | | |
| wednesday, July 25blahhh....getting my wisdom teeth out was a good thing, but i just hope my face will look normal eventually (i know thats vain, but i miss being able to smile the same way  )....yesterday was my first day back at work since my 5-day recovery and it was not fun...about halfway through my shift, my mouth started hurting SO bad (i think because i had to talk to people all day) and then my knees started acting up...and it was downhill from there...grr. but i made it home to get my second-to-last pain pill. woo....what i really want is to be able to eat regular food now...i miss it
call me crazy, but im actually ready to be back at school. i miss my friends soooo much...and i actually miss class (shhh, dont tell anyone)...even though my books are going to cost about $800... ...gah its like colleges, and credit card companies, and loan companies are training us to be in debt before we can even get real jobs...
one good thing came out of my 5-day wisdom-toothless vacation, i got the new harry potter book and finished it! i liked it a lot. i wont add any more comments, just in case some of you are reading it too and haven't finished yet...
anyways...guess i'll get off this thing and watch tv or something.. holla  | | |
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