But today I have some exciting news today. But first I will fill you in on my life--
Well, I am in my last semester of nursing. But here are a few questions that I get from people these days:
Popular Question 1: "Are you excited about almost being done?"
Answer: "Actually its more terrifying that exciting. All within the next 6 months I first have to finish all of my courses, but not only finish my courses, but pass them. Then I have to graduate, walk across the stage. In between all of that I have to apply for my big final exam called hte NCLEX.
Popular Question 2: "What are you going to after you graduate?"
Answer: "Well isn't that a great question, I wish I knew...I have no idea." (If you ask me this question I will make up some answer of what I might like to do, in an ideal world of no MS and full knowledge that I will pass my big exam)
Popular Question 3: "Where are you planning on living? In Prince George?"
Answer: Again, in an ideal world. I would find someone to travel to obscure place in Canada for a year and just have an adventure. Like Nunavut, Yukon, far corner of BC. Gimme something, somewhere and preferably someone and I'm there! But again, not an idea world. I don't know. Preferably NOT Prince George. But who knows. Not I
Well... Like I said earlier. I have news. Great news.
Today I ran around, completely out of breath, I got sweaty, kept running around, got more sweaty and then I lost my vision. But that all happened while I played a game of soccer, indoors, on a team!!
I played an organized game of soccer and it was awesome!
I loved every minute of it. Granted I couldn't see during every minute of it. But I loved it. Three years ago, almost to the week I developed my first symptom of MS and soon after I started to loose my vision. But today was so fun, it has been the first time I've played on a team since my MS diagnosis.
This might not be big news for you, but for me this is huge! I sat down on the bench when my vision was at like 50% and did my best to not burst into tears. Tears of happiness.
So today I had a glimpse of what I forgot I loved. Sports. And being able to play them. It was frustrating when I couldn't see the ball or my teammates. But I played. For short bursts of time.
But I played. And that is the exciting news.
This is my team: Code Orange Avengers. We are all nursing students. Its a blast!
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