Ok so I'm not gonna lie, this week was pretty horrible. First off, I'm so blessed that last year as part of my training to work at Timp Cave I got first-aid certified. To keep a long story short, my companion hit her head during our zone activity. She said she was okay and she got up but decided that she wanted to go back to our apt. When we got home, she kept holding her head but she couldn't speak so I told her to lay down at which point she started convulsing and having a mini seizure. Then she went into shock. She couldn't keep her eyes open so I started hitting her and calling her name to keep her awake. She opened her eyes and gestured to me that she wanted to write something. I asked her where she was hurting and on the note she wrote me it said "Back of my head. I am afraid." Then she went unconscious and I called the ambulance. They came and got her, I rode with her, and we spent the day at the hospital getting tests ands xrays. She was completely unresponsive most of the day but the tests all came back ok and so the doctor sent her home. After we got home from the hospital, she went into relapse and was taken back to the hospital late that night.
She is doing better now. Luckily she can answer my questions and she responds to things. She is in a lot of pain so we won't be going anywhere or doing anything for a while. She may get sent home but I'm hoping and praying that it doesn't happen. I made her some watermelon otai (a tongan drink) and she seems to be pretty content. I've never been a nurse before but I'm starting to learn!
My thoughts on all of this have taken me back the basic teachings of the gospel of Jesus Christ. It's times like these that I realize how brief and precious our mortal lives are, and yet we spend so much time focusing on things that aren't really important. Sure, work and school (and many other things) are important, but not in comparison to family and friends, the commandments, the Atonement, etc., etc. I have also been so grateful for the priesthood, especially for worthy priesthood holders that on a moments notice can call down the powers of heaven. In fact, since I've just been sitting at the apartment while she sleeps, I studied the whole priesthood session of last month's General Conference. It's a good reminder to me of the standard I have set for myself to always encourage the boys around me to live worthily to hold and use the priesthood because sometimes it is a matter of life or death, physically or spiritually. Thanks dad for always being such a good example of that! Please keep Sister Han in your prayers. Love you all!
Aloha,
Sister Stringer
She is doing better now. Luckily she can answer my questions and she responds to things. She is in a lot of pain so we won't be going anywhere or doing anything for a while. She may get sent home but I'm hoping and praying that it doesn't happen. I made her some watermelon otai (a tongan drink) and she seems to be pretty content. I've never been a nurse before but I'm starting to learn!
My thoughts on all of this have taken me back the basic teachings of the gospel of Jesus Christ. It's times like these that I realize how brief and precious our mortal lives are, and yet we spend so much time focusing on things that aren't really important. Sure, work and school (and many other things) are important, but not in comparison to family and friends, the commandments, the Atonement, etc., etc. I have also been so grateful for the priesthood, especially for worthy priesthood holders that on a moments notice can call down the powers of heaven. In fact, since I've just been sitting at the apartment while she sleeps, I studied the whole priesthood session of last month's General Conference. It's a good reminder to me of the standard I have set for myself to always encourage the boys around me to live worthily to hold and use the priesthood because sometimes it is a matter of life or death, physically or spiritually. Thanks dad for always being such a good example of that! Please keep Sister Han in your prayers. Love you all!
Aloha,
Sister Stringer
