hello? anyone home?
hey!
hi whats up???
just sitting her chillin, you?
same same what is the worst injury you've had? if any
Broke my thumb when I was seven, you?
i have lots you ready for my list?
haha yeah im ready
2 concussions, fractured left elbow, broken right wrist, broken left ankle, dislocated pinky toe, collapsed lung 4 times, got hit by a car but only had road rashes I have some good stories on a lot of those hahaha
oh my gosh! how did you get a collapsed lung 4 times??
hahaha so apparently people that are tall and skinny get them. Its called a spontaneous pneumothorax meaning that my lung collapses randomly the doctors have no idea why
that must have been really scary
yeah when it happend for the first time I had no idea what was happening and the first time  was the worst one
i assume you couldn't breath?
i was literally in the library studying for my bio exam with a friend and all of a sudden when I stood up from my chair I had this cramping on my middle back and the pain got worse and worse and I couldnt walk because when I would make a step it would hurt my chest yeah I couldn't breathe
woah what did your friend do?
short and fast breathes through a coffee straw I just told my friend that I needed to go home so I collapsed my left lung meaning that a hole formed somewhere on the lung and the air was leaking and buidling up in my chest cavity and it couldnt re inflate and the lung was resting on my diaphram so my right lung was working double duty hahah
ohhh gotcha, and i assume the right one has collapsed too?
I couldnt lay down or walk or do anything by the time I got home so I had to sit up right and sleep up right for 3 weeks at least until I felt ok to lay down so my left lung collapsed 3 times on different occasions and then my right lung collapsed last winter semester
yeah i was gonna say there's no way with your right lung doing double all that time that it didn't suffer some damage
yeah probably hahahaa but apparently I am supposed to grow out of it when I turn 25 I have one more year
well you're almost there!
yeah this December! do you want to hear about how I broke my wrist?
haha yeah
do you long board?
these stories seem pretty interesting nope
have you tried?
nope
well it pretty dangerous because you can get going pretty darn fast really quick and if you aren't experienced you can lose control and wreck really hard. There are a lot of teenagers here in provo that go down provo canyon and get paralyzed and stuff because they go too fast ANYWAY so its dangerous
ok gotcha
and this was before my mission when I thought I was cool and invincible right. My buddies and I were chillin at his house pretty late at night I think it was like 10 pm and we were super bored, werent' doing anything but sit at the couch. And one of them suggested that we go long boarding so there was this really new road behind his house and where he lived was on top of a big hill. The road was new because they were building brand new town homes there
hahahaha "this was before my mission when i thought i was cool and invincible" hahahaha
I grabbed my friends extra long board and we got to the top of the hill hahahaha yuuppppp it was really big and it was pitch black outside because the moon was crescent and it was cloudy well I just bombed down the hilll without a helmet or a slide glove and I kicked to push really hard so that I can reach the maximum speed before I slow down When I neared the bottom i hit a rock and the rock stopped my long board really fast and I flew off the long board hitting my head and I planted my right hand to break the fal fall what happened when I did that was my body and all of the weight rotated around the wrist axis
i have a response but i have to use the restroom brb XD
ok ill keep typing and you can read it when you get back hahaha when I got up I saw that my shoes and all my clothes were intact not a scratch but I knew something was wrong I picked up my arm and look at my hand and my hand was rotated 90 degrees and apparently I found out later that my radius bone was shattered so to give you a better imagery if you did the nazi solute and stuck you arm straight out your thumb would be pointing down toward the ground and hand would be vertical thats what happened to my hand my friends saw me biff it really hard so they rushed down and they saw my hand and were like "OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" I told one of my friends to grab my hand and to pop it back in because I didn't want to go to the ER because I didn't have insurance. So when my friend grabbed my hand to twist it he threw up immediately
ewww gross Xd did he do it?
it was so bad funny thing is that I could still move my fingers hahahaha
hahaha my first thought was "wimp" but i didn't see it so i can't really say anything XD
it was really really bad yeah so I went to the ER because this one was not something I could just sleep it out you know
mhm
they doctor put me right to sleep and popped my wrist back in then I had surgery to put my radius bone back together like 3 days ago 3 days after i mean lol
haha ok i was like how are you typing XD
i have a plate and 3 screws in there still and this was like almost 5 years ago hahahaha
wow and the screws and everything just stays in?
yeah its still in there I can feel it right now
woah that's so cool!
I can take it out when ever I want though but Ill just keep it in there until it starts to bother me. so far it hasnt
cool cool
I also have two 4 inch screws in my left ankle
aight tell me that one
lol ok so this was after my mission when I still thought I was invincible but not as cool ;)
oh ok no AS cool gotcha
hahaha anyway so I got in to rock climbing when I got back from my mission and we decided to make it out to st. george to go climbing over the weekend because it was winter semester and we were depressed because of the winter gloom and school and cold and snow we wanted to go somewhere warm and to climb out side we had a great first day of climbing. it was super chill and it was warm and super relaxing but on the second day we decided to climb the Prophecy wall in st. george this rock face is in the middle of nowhere, super tall and there is a really big pond next to it we were doing multi pitches meaning that you climb the first pitch then anchor yourself in the wall then you climb the next and the next until you have climbed to the top and you've climbed like 200 feet or more well we were on our last pitch, the third one, and we were probably like 120 feet up in the air. the last pitch was nice because we were able to stand up on a nice ledge that was sticking out so It was my turn to lead the climb meaning that I place all the safety gear in the rock so that when you fall you dont fall off and you die well I got decently high up from the ledge and I was about to place my gear in and as I let go of my right hand to reach for the gear and as soon as I shifted my weight over a bit the rock that I was holding on to with my left hand BROKE it BROKE OFF THE WALL and I fell about 20 feet and landed really funky on my left ankle then I was about to roll off the ledge when my friend caught me
dang best friend right there
yeah so my friend was like dude you ok? and I was like yeah but I cant stand up because my left ankle hurts really bad he was like you probably broke it you idiot I was like nah man i refuse to believe that. Its probably a really really bad sprain
that pre-mission pride right there *shakes head*
( i didnt want to believe that I broke it because again I didn't want to go to the doctor because its really really expensive and I did not have the money nor my mom did anyway our climbing trip was over unfortunately and my friend had to lower me down 120 feet down the rock wall and I had to crawl on all 3s for about a mile until we got to the car and drove home for 4 hours
wow sounds like a lot
yeah it sucked because I didnt want to go to the doctor to spend loads and loads of money I just borrowed crutches from my other friend and crutched around for a week  not going to the doctor and just icing it but the swelling never went away and the purpleness was getting more purple so my friends forced me to the doctors and I found out that the inner ankle bone that sticks out was completely severed off from the main bone and I had to get surgery and they screwed in the 4 inch screws and to save money I was like I dont want a freaking cast so after the surgery I went to the thrift store and bought a medical boot for like 5 bucks
wow you really don't like spending money
and I crutched around in campus back and forth from class in ice and snow for 3 months. that was really fun... I dont like spending money when I dont have any especially on health stuff medical stuff because its so dang expensive. A doctors visit is like so rediculus but when I need to go I go. like my wrist or my ankle
yeah makes sense
but I never went to a doctor when my lungs collapsed except in my mission because my mission president forced me to go and he said that the mission paid for it thats where I found out exactly what was going on with me. otherwise i still wouldnt know what was happening to my lungs hahaha
that't not very safe *shakes head*
lol hope I didnt bore yeah ya*
nope, it was pretty funny from my endn XD
hahaha im glad
so what do you have going on today?
I have an internship interview in like 3 hours thats about it
what's the internship for?
the internship title is Product Intern and its for a tech company called Pluralsight I will be doing User Experience Design work and being mentored by a product manager and a professional UX desinger
sounds legit
yeah it really fun and Im glad that I found a career path that I enjoy immensely
yeah that is great!
thanks! what about you? what do you have going on today?
just school and then work this evening
where do you work?
at a grocery store as a cashier super boring wish i didn't have to work
ahh yeah that is boring work is the essence of happiness trust me
maybe but not by scanning milk XD
its nice to not work for a bit but if you don't work then you will feel depressed and not progress yeah thats what I am trying to get at hahah find work that is meaningful to you
yeah it's hard to do when i don't have my degree yet, trying to get a waitressing job cause i think ill like that better
yeah not to mention that it probably will pay you more
haha defenitly
I recommend trying to find a on campus job when you start college here because the on campus jobs will work with your class schedule
yeah im actually planning on having enough money by the end of the summer to live off of so i don't have to work while im there
yeah thats a good plan
yup yup, do you work right now?
yeah I work on campus doing UX research and UX design
and you like it?
yeah I love it for one it pays really wel 16 bucks an hour two I can work where ever I want when ever I want because its project based really nice tech jobs are really cush for the most part
sounds nice!
yeah Im grateful now that I look back its really cool to see my journey here so far and I cant wait for the next part of it as far as my career goes and I am super excited for you to go through your own journey!
yeah im super excited! Hopefully I make it to where I want to be
yeah I hope so too I look back and I never thought this is what I'd be doing to be honest so don't tunnel vision to what you THINK you want to do right now explore and enjoy it and you will find what you really want in your life with the career I thought I wanted to be in the medical field when I was in highschool and my first year of college before the mission I actually like studied for the MCAT and stuff before. I took all the AP physicology classes and chemistry and what not but after the mission my path changed and I am really happy to be where I am
thats awesome! yeah im looking at nursing right now
whooo! my mom is a nurse she loves it do you want to know about BYU nursing compared to other schools?
lol sure
ok so
so
a lot of people diss on BYU nursing because they do a lot of theoretical things and not many hands on stuff compared to UVU or the U some hospitals favor UVU nursing students over BYU sometimes because they already have a lot of experience so that is the nursing program about BYU book smarts and not so much experience
gotcha makes sense kinda
yeah lots of hospitals favor experience in the field rather than a diploma these days with nursing ill be back. getting some lunch
sounds good