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My life in 30 days, day 21

My life in 30 days, day 21 = A picture of something you wish you could forget

Something I wish I could forget: In late July 2010 my sister and I headed to church camp for one week. By the second morning (think 4 a.m.), Hannah woke me up and said the right side of her tummy hurt.

This worried me.

She always sleeps through the night, like a rock. The whole day she was crying that her stomach hurt and would hardly eat. This also worried me because he has a voracious appetite. I will admit, I love medical stuff–I watch surgery videos on YouTube and look at diagrams of how the body works. I thought it was her appendix or her first menstrual cycle.

My parents decided to pick us up from camp to take Hannah to the doctor and she wanted me by her side (sisterly love!). The doctor sent us straight to the emergency room.

She was admitted to the emergency room at midnight, and by 4:00 a.m. she was in the recovery room.

Her appendix almost burst so it had to be removed ASAP.

Recovery–I hated seeing her like this.

She hated the liquid diet. Except the ice cream.

She still has scars to this day. They are bright purple. I thought Hannah would be self-conscious of them but she was quite excited to show them off at her birthday pool party two weeks later, though she wasn’t allowed to swim because of her stitches.

But she gradually got better as she stayed in the hospital a few days.

Ice cream! I may or may not have ate half of her food while in the hospital.

She walked a little bit but it really wore her out and hurt her sore belly.

So she rested her hospital socked feet, haha. She loved those socks!

Jimmy came to visit a few times as well.

A few days in the hospital = perfect opportunity to color.

Hannah’s favorite stuffed bear, Blueberry, was able to go into surgery with her! They even put a hospital label and bandaid on his belly.

Hannah is very loved. She received lots of gifts and cards and they really helped!

It felt like forever until she was allowed to go home and our whole family couldn’t wait! I started to get to know the cafeteria ladies too, ha.

First thing we did when we got home? We took a shower. Together. Poor thing needed help.

We played board games and even went shopping!

I wish I could forget being so afraid for my sister. What if her appendix had burst and she had died? What would my life be like without her? I wish I could forget those thoughts.

At the same time I am almost glad this happened. I became even closer with one of my best friends, my sister 🙂

What do you wish you could forget?

My 1st Road Race

I’ve been thinking about blogging this for a while because it is a fun memory to me! My first road race was a 5k in April. It was called the Roundup Rerun 2010.

This is the course description:

The course starts out with downhill ease on the main road, turns onto a back road with slightly rolling hills, and ends back in town with several hills and dips to end with a challenging uphill climb.

Not too shabby, right?!

That’s me all ready to run! (Those are NOT running thights, those are LEGGINGS.. hahahha)

I had run some track in high school and middle school but I did hurdles not 3 mile races so I was quite nervous for this race, even though I had trained properly!

Me, my mama, and sister arrived at the race early and I was intimidated! Everyone looked like they knew what they were doing! People had calf compression socks on, running watches, special shoes, you name it-someone had it. I was like “should I be stretching or jogging around like everyone else?” “Should I drink water or Gatorade?”

Those thoughts all stopped because it was about to be time to line up!!

Somehow, I had figured out how to put my chip on as well?! Cool!

The race probably had about 200 people, so it was quite small and nice in that way. The started played the national anthem and the gun went off. I had no idea where to go so I just followed the crowd. We ran first through a cemetery which was very cool. Then some rolling hills and a water stop. (Which I didn’t stop at) At mile 1, a timer said my time was 7:15- I was like WOAH GIRL you need to slow down you have two whole miles ahead of you!

Around mile 2 I started to relax and enjoy the race! I was looking around and really enjoying myself. I was around a few young teens around my age and we were all friendly with each other. I ran past 3 cows and they said “MOOOOOOOOOO” I smiled and ran faster.

I felt like the race was never going to end and the last uphill was pretty big, but I finished!

I’m not afraid to say my time & i’m not ashamed of it 🙂

I got a 24:08 and my pace was 7:47! I was STEAMING HOT at the end of the race, so I learned no more sweaters when I run 5k’s in April haha.

The best part was the finish, I got a water bottle and my mom and sis were there to greet me. We headed to the award ceremony and guess what?! THEIR WAS SO MUCH FOOD! YES!! I had pineapple, grapes, apple, banana, ETC! Coffee as well. My sister liked the 5k because she got to have the snacks too 😉 (Now she does 5k’s as well!)

Hannah and I at the finish. (Can you tell from my posts that I am really close with my sister? I LOVE her!!)

At the awards ceremony I got a medal for 1st place in my age group but I didn’t care. I was hooked on running.

I did so many 5k’s this past spring I feel bad for my family having to come watch me and cheer me on. It was like every weekend! Now my times have improved, I’m down to a 21 something! I haven’t done a 10k yet but I started to train for a marathon that was to be in October but I got injured and ran a half marathon instead.

I LOVED the half! I love running 🙂

Have a great day everybody!