If not one thing...then it's another....

When all is going well that's when things happen. Life is going along great! No school no nothing....until the other night. Kirby leaves the dinner table long enough to get what I thought was a drink of water because I thought he was choking on something. When he yelled he couldn't breathe and he was in a lot of pain.

I thought he was having a cramp in his chest area and had him relax. Over time the pain went away and he was back to being his annoying humorous self. Without anything further happening he went off to school the next day. I received the call about 11:30am only to find out he was doubled over in the nurses office not able to breathe and in alot of pain again. He was taken directly to the Emergency room only to have the pain and all symptoms gone. After test after test there is nothing they could have told me. With talks with the doctor they can only speculate what is happening.

So now we sit and wait to see if it happens again. Only time will tell what is going on. I only hope that what they are speculating is not the case. It's a sit and wait time period.

Kirby has been a trooper through thick and thin! He has moaned and groaned that he wants to go home but found that the funnier he is the more the cute nurses would come in and talk to him. He changed his attitude pretty quick. Not to mention we talked about what the doctors might do if we pulled the plug on a few of the monitoring machines they had him hooked up to. We laughed about the heart machine coming unplugged and how quickly the doctors would come running for a code blue! Not to mention as he would watch the machine he would try to manipulate it by holding his breath or by tapping on the sensors for the heart machines to make the heart rhythm change. Just to see if they were watching.

What a great sense of humor! It's a wait and see game now. We wait and see what happens.

~Kasey~

Winter 2008 Quarter is over...

2 down and 3 more to go! I thought this quarter would never end. Statistics and Probability is behind me. I was able to do all of the work but not fully comprehend what I was doing.

I passed with a 2.8 GPA in that class and I can move forward. I managed to pull off another 4.0 in English and I think at least a 3.5 in my last class. I am breathing a huge sigh of relief.

Next quarter will be much easier than it has been. I only have one class in the classroom and 2 classes online. Luckily I have a very understanding manager who will allow me to do homework on the job when it is slow. Which is what has been happening for the last 6 months given the current mortgage industry situation. I am taking the summer off to really spend most of my time with family and relax to gear up for the fall and push forward through the next set of classes. I should be done by June of next year if not sooner. It depends on what I am going to push off my plate, what is going to have to be put on hold.

I have put my dreams on hold so far and I so want to pursue them. One dream I can almost reach out and touch. It's only a matter of waiting just a little bit longer. I have more of a business plan to put together and a grant proposal to write. Things to really think through and get the whole picture on. It's challenging, creative, scary, frightening and exciting all at the same time. I can see what I want, it's taking that first step out and getting it. I will make it!

~Kasey~

Only one more week...Four More Days

It's only one more week or four more days until this quarter is over. Four research projects; one 14 pages long, one 5 pages long, one a quarter full of research, and lack of understanding.

Thankfully one of the guys in my statistics and probability class and I understand a form of communication between the two of us. He knew how down I was going into this weekend. He sent me an email that has so far made the end of my quarter more bearable. It looks as though I may not be failing this class after all. In his upbeat attitude he explained the grading process and how our grades are earned. There are still 55 points left to be earned in the quarter. If I get all 55 points (a statistical improbability); I can if I get at least 25 of those points conceivably pass this class with a 2.o average. That is all I need to pass this class and move ahead and not have to look back at this stuff any longer.

I have been working very very hard in order to accomplish that task. Three more long nights of no sleep and then I am completely finished!!

Time to get back to work. Wish me luck!!

~Kasey~

The Countdown to the end of Winter Quarter is on....

This has been the most challenging quarter I feel I have ever encountered. It has been a challenge to have to be in a classroom 4 nights a week.

Next quarter I am going after online classes. I have one class that I have to be in the classroom for on Monday and Wednesday nights. The rest of my classes are online. I seem to do so much better if I can work through the information myself.

I am sitting with a challenge on my hands. I have a very low grade in one class and I am not certain I am going to pass this course. I need this class to complete my degree and move on. I am thinking I may have to add this class to my next quarter and fight with 20 credits and see what happens. It will take a huge load of my time but I know I could make it happen. I have to. I don't have much choice.

At this point it is going to take a miracle if I am going to pull out even a passing grade in this class. It's a wait and study time period.

On top of the class that is most difficult I have 4 projects due. I have worked on all 4 projects and I am almost done. Its a matter of time management.

It's almost over....Soon...very, very soon.

~Kasey~