The MTC

Dear friends and family,

I was hoping to tell you all these awesome things that have happened to me at the MTC so far. However, today I had a pretty rough day and do not have the time or energy or strength to email everything I wanted to. I am on the West Campus so there aren't as many people here. The food isn't as good as the Main Campus (i hear) but it's still pretty good. I have been having a really good time and I absolutely LOVE my companion! We are already best friends. The other girls living in our residence are really awesome too. I have been learning so much that I wanted to tell you about but today I woke up and was really sick. My back hurt really bad and I thought if I took Advil it would be fine and eventually go away. Well I was really wrong. It is some of the worst pain I've ever had. Long story short, I ended up having to go to the emergency room. They did all the normal tests such as urine samples and drawing blood. However, I ended up having to have an ultrasound. I had thrown up at the hospital and hadn't eaten all day so I had to have an IV to fill my bladder so they could better see what was going on. I also was drugged up with a couple of doses of morphine and some other medicine for my nausea. The pain never really has gone away though. We were there for about five hours and eventually found out that I have multiple cysts on my ovaries....soooo they can't do anything about it and I basically just have to live with he pain for the next few days. The reason it hurt so bad is because one of the cysts ruptured. Not fun. Hopefully none of the others rupture though. I'm very sick to my stomach and haven't been able to do anything all day. I wish I could write more about how awesome this experience has been but I'm doing all I can right now not to throw up. So hopefully next week I will be able to write about all the GOOD things going on here!

 My MTC Companion