Progress is Possible.

I would like to state the accomplishments I have reached this past week:
- I went out in public for the first time since my surgery.
- I showered/bathed all by myself.
- I dressed myself for the first time.
- I am almost able to sleep through the night.
- I am pretty much off percoset.
- I used my right arm to type this blog post (supposedly its healthy to do so).

What a week I would say!

Although... I am still in quite a bit of pain, and am up to missing 3 weeks of school now. Will I ever catch up?! I need you to keep me in your prayer now more than ever... This is a struggle I am drowning dealing with. It is hard knowing I am missing work (aka not making any money), not attending school (aka failing school), and missing out on a lot of life's events...

I did attend one event I would like to share this week:

Friday night was our ward's valentine's formal event. We were each paired with someone from our ward. I was paired with Shey (mentioned in an earlier post). We kind of doubled with his cousin and another girl in my ward. He picked me up, crippled and all. I went to the dinner and ate two large plates of salad, roll, and lasagna. We chatted, I caught up with some people in the ward I hadn't seen in a while, and life was good. (Besides the point that I was dying in pain, even taking a lot of pain meds.) Then there was the "dance" part. Seeing as I only had one arm, dancing was awkward. So we got our picture taken, and we had so much fun doing that- making random/weird poses and just being insane! Then we played some games in the game room. Afterwhich we went to the dance for a little bit. Some friends dedicated a song as a "one armed dance" because I only had one arm of course.. and I had a few slow dances with Shey. Of course it was a little awkward being one armed and having the brace/sling on and everything, but he was such a good sport and danced with me anyways :) What a champ. So yes, I was in a lot a lot a lot of pain, but yes, I had a lot of much needed fun. So thank you Shey- for going with a cripple, in pain, to a dance, where I may have been a lame date and danced awkward, but for still making it an unforgettable evening.

Anyways- not much else has happened seeing as all I do all day is sleep, watch movies, and eat... Unless you can count watching 'Forever Strong' 9 times doing "something".

Thanks for reading, feel free to comment on my lame life...

Anyways- that's all from this teenage drama queen. More confessions to come.

- J