Hello to all my grab friends!

I have been on a hiatus for quite some time, but now that things may be settling down (or I hope) I am gonna give grab another run! As most of you know I am finishing up my undergrad degree in communicative disorders and deaf education this spring and will hopefully be relocated out of hel... I mean Utah LOL. I will be applying to several grad schools so wish me luck. During this past semester, I had to have some sinus surgery: bilateral ethmoidectomy, left sphenoidectomy, bilateral maxillary sinuses and a left frontal sinus modification to be exact. During the surgery my ENT found a 3 cm cyst in my right maxillary sinus and sent it of for testing. When the lab reports came back it wasn't good news, I had a very rare bacteria called achromobactor xyloxidans denitrificans which had to be treated by meropenem intravenous medication. I had to have a PICC line put in and self administer my medication every 8 hours for two weeks. I just had my final biopsy last week and everything is going great finally. I had to do all this during the semester which made it very trying.

As if that wasn't enough, I had to deal with my ex-husbands crap trying to get custody of MY son and having me investigated. Of course the judge awarded Austin to me :) thankfully! My mom, beezangel, flew down when I had surgery back on November 1 and that was wonderful to have her here during that time. Also, I had to take my GRE (YIPPIE not) with out much time to study for it as I have had deadlines to meet. Then, I tried to drop a class which never ended up getting dropped so I had to petition my records to have the class removed (psychological statistics). I finally was able to get that dropped and now I am retaking it this semester as I wasn't able to take it with everything going on last semester.

As this chapter in my (well our) life comes to a close, we will be on our next journey so I can follow my dreams of becoming an audiologist! I am very excited to get the next chapter started to see where it takes me :).

I just wanted to let y'all know that I am still kicking and I am still alive at least for now. We shall see what this semester brings and where I get accepted to grad school!

Lots of Hugs,
Laadysouth (Courtney)