Medical Scares and Many Prayers

Well, this week has been quite exciting. But it is the kind of excitement that I do not wish to repeat. My dad has been having some medical problems and they focus around back pain. He has been to probably every doctor in the valley in the last month to find out what is wrong. He has had MRI's, CT scans, CAT scans, been poked and prodded and everything in between. In the MRI the doctor noticed that his kidneys had cysts, which led to the conclusion that he had Polycystic Kidney Disease and that at any moment his kidneys could fail him which would lead to dialysis, or a kidney transplant. Not a fun path to take. So, in light of visiting doctors, he went to a Phrenologist, a kidney specialist. The phrenologist took some tests and such and concluded that, yes, dad does have cysts in his kidneys, but that they will not lead to such drastic problems as the other doctor diagnosed. So after three days of many tears, hugs, prayers, fasting, hoping, and wishing, our perilous journey had come to an end (thankfully). It sure did teach me a lot about what to do in drastic situations and how quickly life can change. I also now more fully understand the power of prayer and the power that friends can have when life gets tough. I am grateful for all the help that we had and all the prayers that were said.

We finally had our powder puff game (where the girls play football and the guys dance and cheer) because we finally had a field to do it on. The 40 days it would take to put in our turf field soon turned into 10 months when we finally got to have our game. Cheer was going to perform but it was 'too cold' so we didn't do it. We finally got to on Friday afternoon for the conclusion of spirit week. It went well and was great to perform on our turf. Lucky me, I only get to do that once because I'm graduating. Fabulous.

I had a dance competition yesterday at Lagoon and both of my teams took first place! I got to compete in the advanced jazz class and I did so awesome! I got all of the technique right and managed to not hurt myself in the process.. Now that the stress of dance is over, I move on to academic stress. I have the AP Calculus test this coming Wednesday and the AP English test next Wednesday. I will be so amazingly excited when these two tests are over and in the past.

Rachel, Logan, and my niece are coming this Tuesday for a week and I'm thrilled to finally see them. It's been since Christmas.. Way too long. It will be a fun-filled week with them here, so they can brighten my day when I have to face an ugly test. I'm very excited!