April heart update

It is time for another update about my " stubborn heart". I have been wearing a heart monitor for the past month because I have an appointment with my cardiologist scheduled for Friday. I have been having problems off and on for the past couple of weeks. Once I was walking a patient around at the hospital and I almost passed out. After talking with my doctors office the reason why was that my heart rate was 212 (way too high), and out of rhythm but they said my heart went back into rhythm so nothing to worry about. Fast forward 2 weeks when I am out running errands and I get a phone call from my doctors office telling me that my heart rate is 185 and has been all morning as well as it has been out of rhythm. I get orders to go home take some extra medicine and take it easy. My doctors nurse tells me to call back in the morning and if I am still out of rhythm then I will need to get cardioverted (they shock your heart and it resets it and it should go back in rhythm). I woke up and my heart was back in rhythm so I didn't need to get cardioverted. The next day I was working a day shift at the hospital and a little after 8 o'clock I started having symptoms with my heart. I talked to our telemetry tech at the hospital about it and he immediately set me up with a 5-lead heart monitor so he could just check up on me. My heart rate was 185 again, and out of rhythm. Before I knew it the house supervisor was by my side and the cardiac unit was warned that they might be getting a new patient on the unit. I called my doctors office and again they told me to take some extra medicine and if my heart rate didn't go down I would need to get cardioverted. Well my heart rate wouldn't go down and because it was so high I could not really do my job, before I knew it my supervisor had me in a wheelchair and I was being admitted to the cardiac unit to get cardioverted. Note: I hate getting cardioverted! Thank goodness they gave me lots of drugs to put me out, so at least I do not remember it. I woke up to the doctor telling me it was a success and that my heart rate was now 74!!! I was even able to leave the hospital that night!!!! This morning my heart still feels in rhythm and good. I am just taking it easy and will be laying in bed all day! Tomorrow morning I will meet with my cardiologist and I will get to hear what my treatment plan will be going forward. For now keep my heart in your prayers!

The job offer

We have been waiting so patiently to see if Joe would get a job offer to work for a law firm this summer as an intern. This week Joe got an offer for a place in China and....... St. George! Joe accepted the position in St. George and we are so excited! Joe will be working for Bingham and Snow. Joe will start May 2 and will be there all summer, and I will join him as often as possible because I will be commuting between Provo and St. George for my work. We now need a place to live for about 3 months. Do any of you know anyone who wants to rent us out there place for the summer? We are terrific tenants!

Beach resort

The other night we went to the Provo beach resort to do the ropes coarse. I have been dying to do it since this place opened. We brought Cheri (awesome sister in-law) along and we had so much fun. Seriously you all need to come do it, and when you go call us and we will come too! This ropes coarse was much harder than it looked. It was a bit of a workout and our hands hurt really bad afterwords. (Wear gloves when you go!)

Next time we will either do the wave rider or maybe the croquet. Seriously so much fun!!!

3 of my favs

So what are my 3 favorite things you ask?
1. Joe
2. BYU basketball
3. Las Vegas
Last weekend we were able to make a quick trip (left Saturday morning and came back bright and early on Sunday morning) to Las Vegas! It was beautiful 80 degree weather there! We were able to go down to the Mountain west conference championship game. Sadly my Cougars had a rough game and lost, but it was still worth it to go down and cheer! It was also fun to get to be in Vegas and reminisce with Joe about how he purposed there 3 years ago.

This is the first year I have really ever cared about March madness. I have my

bracket filled out and yes I have BYU to win it all! It is killing me that I am not in Denver cheering them on this weekend! Go Cougars!!!!

BYU Student Section Flash Mob 2011

One of the things that I have always wanted to do in my life is be in a flash mob. Saturday
I was able to cross it off my list. Check it out. I think it turned out pretty good! And BYU won so it was a great day!!!

Love it!!

I love, love, love my job. I've wanted to be a nurse for a while and getting to my goal seemed like almost impossible, but I have been a nurse for a year now and I absolutely love it. For the past 2 months I have worked all my shifts on the pediatrics unit which is my favorite!!! Yes it is hard to see sick babies and have to poke them and suck boogers out, but I love it. I love waking up and going to work, I love being at work, and sometimes I don't want to leave work because I love it so much. I love it!!!

where have we been?

We have been so busy with everything that pertains to basketball. Mainly BYU basketball. It has been so fun to go to all the home games. And Joe is playing on 3 different basketball teams. Thats right he is playing on a city team, a ward team and he is still in quest for a BYU intramural chapionship T-shirt by playing basketball intramurals. Go Jimmer!!!

I turned 27 in January!! And so to keep up with tradition we went to the Olive Garden which is where we met on my birthday 4 years ago! Joe's little brother John was our waiter and did a great job. I always order the Tour of Italy, it is soooo yummy!

Joe got me a great gift for my birthday!!! I love my new Ipod dock! It makes cooking in the kitchen so much better where I can jam as I pretend to cook.