Love and Pain

Well for now it's a bit hard to go all the way back to 2005, so I'll just start off with a quick catch up. I'm now with an amazing girl whom I've been living with for a year now. We've been officially dating for just over 2 years and have been seeing each other for easily over 3 (I had issues with starting a relationship with her for some reason... yea I fail). Without Sarah I'm pretty sure my life would be way more upside down than it already is, she keeps me on task and is my living proof that love can conquer all.

For the last 2 years she has been by my side for the ups and downs of my epileptic episodes, and with my pilonidal cyst. I just had my fourth surgery on the cyst on June 12th, and she was by my side the entire time. They decided to put me on a Wound V.A.C. this time around, which was one of the most painful/odd things I've ever had to deal with. They put the sponge in the wound and it creates a suction to close the hole faster. Now it definately did it's job but having it changed every 2-3 days put a strain on even the morphine they were feeding me. Thankfully every time it was changed Sarah was by my side, holding my hand.

Back to it

I don't know why I decided to stop posting to this blog so long ago. It's time to write things down again and keep my brain active and anyone who actually finds this up to date. This first one will just be a quick space holder to remind my nice non-elephant memory to get going again. Hopefully I can pick up the writing where I left off and fill in the 2 year gap of my life. Oh well 4:57am and time to not be at the computer.

Hurricane Katrina

So as the stories come in from Louisiana about the damage from this latest natural disaster, it is becoming more apparent that this is a national emergency. My father actually lives in Baton Rouge, but thankfully he and my family there weathered the storm with no damage to the house or them, just lots of debris to clean up. The news stories are just horrific seeing places I've been to just disappear from the map. The road my father used to get to work and pick me up from the airport in New Orleans is basically just gone. The lake picked up peaces of it and moved them to who knows where. I'm still in a debate about whether I should get off my lazy butt and do something about it, since I've always wanted to do something for my fellow countrymen. So if you read about me dropping out of school for the semester to go to New Orleans and help with the relief effort, don't be too surprised...

Surfboard Wax and Vegas?

Ok, so I know that surfboard wax and vegas really don't seem like they belong together, but somehow they both have to do with my life lately. So I've had this trip to Vegas planned for a long time now, to go celebrate my friend Ashley's 21st birthday. While I'm writing this I actually only have 17 hours until I arrive there ready to tear up the town. Well while this whole trip has been developing my step-father approaches me one night while I'm finalizing the tickets and rides to the airport and asks me, "So Chris, what would you think about running a surfboard wax company with me?". Now this one really caught me off guard, so I turned away from the computer and stuttered out "Uhhh...umm...What the HELL!?". So he goes on to explain to me that a friend of his is selling his company for a really good price and would like to know if we were interested in taking it over. The next day comes along and we talk it over and run the numbers over with his friend and we decide to take on this fun endeavor. So these last 2 weeks have been spent making things legal, picking a name, creating a logo, starting up a website and actually making lots and lots of surfboard wax. Suffice it to say this past month has been a very interesting one, and looks to get even better. Next update will come when the website goes up and I have a copy of the logo to put up...

Summer Winding Down

So as this summer is starting to wind down to an end I've decided to set a final goal for myself to achieve by the time school starts. With the loss of my license earlier in the summer due to the medical fun times, I've been stuck here in my apartment a lot, and I'm starting to hate not having the ability to get out and do things. So my goal is to pull together enough money to get myself a moped... but, as you all know, I'm not one to go small. I've had my eyes set on this bike for a long time now, but just never went for it since I was always so close to getting my license back. Well this time I just can't take it, plus hell, the gas mileage on this baby is amazing. Anyways here is a look at what will soon be my new baby, and the third love in my life (oh and don't ask what the other two are, because I don't feel like going there just yet).

Living in Florida...

So today is July 8th, the day after the most recent terrorist attack on the "Free World" in London. I want to start this out by sending out my deepest regrets to those who lost loved ones in these attacks, and my prayers are with the city of London. Stand strong as we will stand with you in these coming days. Now back to the home front of Florida, where we are having what is being called the most active Hurricane Season on record since we have had four named storms before any other year in known history. Florida has already been grazed by a tropical storm and Denis is starting it's attack on the Keys and the west coast of Florida throughout this weekend. I just hope this year doesn't end up like last year, because this time I don't have anywhere to fly off to like I did during all of the prior strikes on Florida. Oh well, looks like I'll have to find another evacuation plan, lol.

Doctors Appointment

So this morning I woke up and went to see my new neurologist, finally one that specializes in epilepsy. So as the conversation with my new doctor progresses, she brings up the subject of the drug that I'm taking to control my seizures and her first question is: "So Chris have your cognative abilities and grades been since you've started your medication?". So I give her the story of how I'm just stupid and can't seem to get anything right in college and start to blame myself for just sucking at college and then BAM! She cuts me off and tells me that the drug I'm on tends to cause problems in students and she decides then and there that I need to change drugs because my college career is probably, I will say probably because I still blame part of this situation on myself, screwed over due to my previous doctors lack of proper care. Man I love the timing of shit in my life.

Shark Season

Well shark season is now in full swing, thankfully I haven't taken a trip to the beach this weekend. A young "person" was killed up in the panhandle earlier today (Saturday) by an unknown shark. They've had to shutdown all of the beaches in the area for a short time. Now maybe people will listen to me when I tell them that Florida has one of the highest shark attack rates in the World and they'll be smart when they get in the water. I know this won't keep me out of the ocean anytime soon, but it sure as hell will make me more aware of my surroundings when I'm in the water. Hope all goes well with everyone else this summer and let me know if you want to go surfing, because I'm always up for taking people out, lol.