My (Lack of Good) Health

Will says I have been sick ever since he's known me (right around 2.5 years). I have struggled with many sinus infections, asthma, and various colds and flus since my senior year of high school. This year has been by far the worst.

In the spring I was placed on antibiotics 5 separate times for sinus infections. The last one turned into brochitis and a strong likely hood of pneumonia (I have to admit that the health center was very good about monitoring me weekly and treating what I had). Unfortunately these all happened right after my first cycling race, so that put me out of commission until the summer. Summer was ok (lack of things to be allergic to, lots of rain).

This fall I have fortunately only had 1 sinus infection (actually, it might have been 2... at this point it's hard to keep track). My allergies were the worst this fall. I've only struggled with excercise-induced asthma in the past. This fall I found myself wheezing after the AE stairs, walking to class, walking up the stairs to my apartment. I was put on an every day steriod treatment that helped immensely. I was just about to start back with the workouts when I caught a cold. It went straight to my chest, and here I am with broncitis... again.

Right now I'm just extremely anxious about getting back onto the whole workout thing. On the bright side, today marks the beginning of my last week as an undergrad. I was officially accepted to grad school on Monday. The offer I received was better than I expected, so that was exciting. I also will only be taking one or two class, so hopefully things will calm down for a bit.

I hope to sleep more than 5 hours each night, workout every day, read everything that I want to, and many many more things. Yeah... we'll see how it goes.

Oh, interesting news. It turns out Mike Griffin (or Mr. Gobble, as I like to refer to him) is giving the commencement speech this Fall. He's also stopping by the ASDL for a little bit, since we did all that ESAS work this summer. Should be interesting. Sadly, it means that we have to take down the huge picture of him and his gobble neck.