A Perfect Day to watch some Hoops!

Its the middle of March, and the snow came down a ton yesterday. I got out of school early and in time to watch the second day of March Madness. These are some pics of the snowy weather from our Condo Balcony.

It's Official...My Parents Gave Me a Weird Disease!

I went to the doctor yesterday and my test results were back. Apparently, I have a rare hereditary disease called Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease (Look it up if you're like Ashley, she was learning all about it online yesterday :) ). It is a disease that causes nerve damage, which is why my feet and legs have begun to loose feeling. The doc told me that the disease is not serious, and I only have a mild form of it. It is not life threatening at all but is something that I will have to deal with my whole life. One of the things that happens with the disease is that some of the muscles in my legs below the knees are subject to atrophy. So, the doctor told me that exercise will help those muscles stay in shape, but there is no cure, drugs, or anything they can give me to help the numbness. I will be getting one more test from a neurologist to confirm the diagnosis, but they are almost positive that this disease is it (They even said that the mild version of it usually appears in people in their mid 20s!). Anyways, thought I'd let everyone know that Mom or Dad gave me this crazy disease. Maybe some of you will have it too. Weird stuff.

Christmas Pool Ball

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Tyler Dropping Bombskys

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Trevor's Lefty Inside-the-Parker

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Bad Hair Day

So... I had a bad day :). There are these mixing machines at school where you hook up a mixing device and you can mix stone or plaster. When the machine is on and the device is not attached, there is just this cylinder that rotates around in a clockwise direction. I wasn't even using this machine, but it was left on. I was bending over the counter that the machine was on to check a model I was working on...and the rotating cylinder grabbed my hair and pulled me in! I screamed and then realized that I should probably turn the machine off. So I did, but I was still stuck. Luckily everyone and their dog ran in and a friend held my hand until the maintenance guy came. He refused to let anyone try to unwind my hair or to take apart the machine. By this point I was very proud of myself for not crying. Well then he told someone to get him a scalpel to cut my hair. That is when I started crying. So after he cut me loose, I went to the Temple nurse and she told me that my hair might not grow back because of the trauma. I am refusing to believe her. Even though I was cut from the machine, I think that the machine ripped out the chunk you see in the picture. It has been a week since the event and I can now feel a few prickly hairs on half of the bald spot. So that is good. Luckily I can part my hair in such a way that I can have a thin layer of hair over the spot. I seriously feel like one of those guys with a comb-over hair style. I am just so happy that it was my hair and not a finger or something. So anyways, I'm famous at my school now because from now on, every girl in the school has to wear their hair in a bun while in lab. It's pretty funny. Well I hope everyone has a good day! Ashley