Day 4: Your Views on Religion

When I was growing up I lived in a very Mormon neighborhood like my sister said. And just like my sister I went to a big young women's and young men's activity where you are in a plane crash. And like my sister said in her blog the Mormon Church believes in three levels of heaven and the outer darkness (essentially hell). I went this activity at a friend's ward and not the ward I belonged to. Unlike my sister we went to all three levels of heaven and the outer darkness as a group except I was told I would be going to the outer darkness because I did not pay tithing. I remember my dad coming to pick me up that night and getting into the car and I just started balling because I thought I was going to hell. I remember my dad telling me that after everything I have been through in my life God would not send me to hell because I did not pay tithing. This experience and a few others turn me away from the Mormon Church. I do not believe in any one religion and do not judge others for their beliefs in any one religion and hope that they would give me the same consideration. I believe in God. I do not believe that there is any one true religion. And I believe God does not judge you based on your religious beliefs. I believe He judges us based on our choices. I do not push my religious beliefs on anyone and do not want their beliefs pushed on me. I hope that I didn't hurt anyone's feelings by stating what I believe in but this is the truth of my beliefs.

Day 3: Your to 5 pet peeves

The first would have to be spitting and spitting gum out on the sidewalk. I think it is disgusting. I don't want to walk in your spit or gum so please spit in your sink at home and spit your gum out in the trash can.

The second is the same as my moms, people not returning their carts to either the store or the cart corral. It is only a few feet people it won't hurt you to walk those few feet to put it away and guess what you can get some exercise in doing so.

The third is people not being courteous. If someone opens or holds open the door for you say thank you. If someone lets you into traffic, simple wave of your hand to say thank you would be nice. Let someone into to traffic once in a while just to be nice. I could go on and on with this but won't.

The fourth is people who say rude things about people who are performing. I want to see if they can do that and if they are better then they can make critical remarks about the person performing. I can understand booing at sporting events but to say that person is terrible when they really aren't gets, on my nerves.

The fifth is hypocrites. I don't like people complaining about someone doing something and then they turn around and do they same thing and think it's alright for them to do it but it is not alright for someone else to do that same thing.

Anyway those are my top 5 pet peeves.

Day 2: Where you'd like to be in 10 years

First I would love to be in my dream job which is a child-life specialist. I would like to be working at Primary Children's Medical Center but would settle for any children's hospital. I would like to still be volunteering at Make-A-Wish Foundation of Utah as a wish granter, right now I am a wish magician. I would like to be married to a great guy and have at least one child of my own. I would like to own my own house, at least a four bedroom with a large kitchen, 2 and 1/2 baths, a huge walk-in closet in my bedroom, a yard for my kid/s to play in, a couple of dogs and a cat or two. That's where I would like to be in 10 years.

Day 1: Your current relationship

This one I am suppose to discuss my current relationship or since I am single discuss being single. I am currently single but am looking for my frog prince. There are advantages to being single. For one I am currently trying to finish my schooling at the end of which I have to do an internship which I may have to go out of state for. I do wish I was in a current relationship but I know I will find the right person when the time is right. I do feel a little lonely sometimes when I see my friends and family with their spouses and family they are building but I am happy for them for finding that special person to spend their life with. I know the person who is right for me is out there somewhere and we will find each other when the time is right but until then I am happy being me and doing what I am to better myself and hopefully in the end have the career I am dreaming of. I am happy where I am right now in life. I love life and love the people that are in my life.

30 day blog challenge

I have been challenged by my sister to do a 30 day blog challenge. So starting tomorrow I will blog for 30 days about different subjects. I borrowed this from my sisters blog challenge. So this is what I will be blogging about.

So starting tomorrow I will blog about this list of things. Wish me luck!!!

The single girl in the room

I am the single girl in the room. Everyone around me is either married or getting married. My sister got married six years ago to a wonderful and sometimes dorky guy and now they have two beautiful and wonderful children. My mom also remarried six years ago to a wonderful and dorky guy who drives her crazy at times but you can tell they love each other a lot. One of my best friends also got married six years ago to her high school sweetheart whom she loves to no end and have 3 children together, one of which sadly only lived an hour but the other two are beautiful and healthy. And now my baby brother is married before me to a wonderful girl who he loves with all of his heart and she loves him with her whole heart. They know each other like the back of their hands. My friends are all married, married with children or are getting married. I got an invite from another friend who is getting married who is younger than me. Don't get me wrong I am happy for all my friends and family for finding their happiness but I feel like I am a third wheel anymore and I don't want to. I want to know when I will find that perfect person for me? Where is my happy ending? Where is my frog to kiss to turn into my prince, my white knight? WHEN IS IT MY TURN???!!!

medical leave

Since December 23rd I have been put on medical leave. Let me tell you from the beginning what has happened and lead up to this. In August I fell at work on a wet floor because I didn't know the floor was wet because there was no wet floor sign out. I hurt my knee and was sent to ER that night where they did a X-Ray which showed no damage. They put me in an entire leg brace which made it so that I couldn't move or bend my knee if I wanted to. If I wanted to move my leg at all I had to move my entire leg and also gave me crutches (which I found out later they did not put together correctly) and then gave me a poor demonstration. I used them to get out to my car that night and haven't touched them since (they said I didn't need them. I could use them if I wanted to). Then the next day they sent me to the medical clinic they always do when we get injured at work for workers comp. I was put on light duty doing office work and sent to physical therapy. The next week the clinic doctor sent me to get a MRI done. It showed a contusion (bruise) on the bone and a cyst. After four weeks with the clinic doctor and physical therapy at my work and not much improvement the clinic doctor sent me to a specialist. Oh I need to mention that while seeing this doctor at the clinic one of the days I was walking up the stairs and my knee popped and gave out on me and I would have fallen down the stairs if I had not been holding on to the railing (this happened in September before I was sent to see the specialist). In October he gave me a cortisone shot in my knee and told me to do therapy exercises on my own. In November the Specialist gave me 3 options since my knee wasn't getting any better. Option 1: go back to working full time on the floor. Which he did not release me from light duty and when I asked him about it he said I would have to transition in to it. If you have ever worked at an assisted living facility as a C.N.A. you know you cannot transition into it. You either work on the floor or you are on light duty. So option 1 was out. Option 2: get a second opinion. Option 3: Surgery. I brought Option 2 and 3 to the HR person and she proceeded to call workers comp. A week later I am informed that I am going to see a doctor for a second opinion. A week later (December 10th) I walk into this doctors office and am given paperwork to fill out which isn't unusual. I start filling out the paperwork and one of the sheets says this is an appointment to get a report and not to form a patient/doctor relationship. I am the ushered into an exam room where the doctor starts off by informing me that he will not be telling me anything and proceeds to asking questions and reading paperwork from the other doctors then hands me a pair of disposable shorts, asks me to put them on and leaves the room. He comes back after I am changed with one of the receptionists and starts examining my knee which he starts by marking my leg in three places rather hard with his pen. He finishes and leaves. I change and go back out into the lobby where I finish my paperwork. I then go to work where I immediately go to the HR office and say that it wasn't a doctor's appointment I was lead to believe it to be. She tells me he was making a report for workers comp and they would go by what he says for me to do. Two weeks go by and I don't hear anything. One of which the person in HR is in Hawaii on vacation. On December 23rd around 1:30pm we are sitting in the country kitchen at work and doing our Secret Santa gift exchange. My supervisors cell phone rings and she tells the person that she was busy and will come talk to them in a half an hour. I could tell it was the person from HR and felt in my gut that it was about me but brushed it off and scolded myself for jumping to conclusions that it could be they had hired someone new for assisted living. We finish our party and I go over the the nurses office and start filing paperwork when one of my coworkers tells me that someone was at the front desk looking for me. I proceed down to the first floor and to the front desk where they direct me to the HR office. I walk over and the door is closed so I knock and am told to come in. Both the HR person and my supervisor are in there and they lead my into the day room (a little office off to the side of the front desk) where they hand me a copy of a letter from workers comp and a copy of the report from the doctor. To sum up what is said it pretty much said my injury from my fall at work was healed six weeks after it happened and that I rushed up the stairs at home and re-injured my knee then and that workers comp was no longer responsible for it and any medical treatment or surgery I would need I would have to use my insurance to pay for it. My rushing up the stairs is when I was walking up the stairs and my knee popped. Anyone who knows me knows I don't rush doing anything. I am often told I walk too slow. I was teased by my sisters boss who called me a turtle. Anyway I was told I was being put on medical leave as of right then and sent home and told to go and see my primary physician which means I am not being payed. So I called that day and made an appointment with my primary physician for last Tuesday and he didn't understand why they had taken so long and he made an appointment with an orthopedic surgeon for last Thursday. He gave me another cortisone shot in the side of the knee it should have been put in in the first place told me to give it a week and if it didn't feel better in a week I would have to have surgery. So it has been a week and it doesn't feel any better and I had to find a different surgeon because this surgeon doesn't work at any of the hospitals my insurance covers. He is an in network doctor but the hospital he works at is an out of network hospital so if I had him do the surgery it would cost me 2500 dollars in deductibles. So I found a different surgeon to go and see for the surgery and it is the same specialist I was sent to by the clinic doctor. I will be seeing him on Friday. Anyways I just needed to vent a little so there it is. I am sorry if I went on too long or complained too much.