Life and summer plans

It is good to be done with another semester and back home in Billings. I now have three more semesters left in school. Hopefully those will fly by so I can get on with my career. I am also really looking forward to coaching next year. It will be a great experience for me.

As for back home here, my mom underwent a successful major neck surgery today. I just got back from visiting her in Intensive Care. After hearing what they all had to do to her, I have been really nervous the last couple of days. Thankfully the surgery went well and she should only be in Intensive Care tonight and she could possibly be home tomorrow. She said the numbness in her hand was gone and her shoulder was no longer in pain so hopefully the operation fixed everything. I feel so awful for her because she has been through more physically than any other person I know: cancer that had reached her lymph nodes which doctors gave her a 3% chance of living, a disease that makes her constantly tired, and this problem with her spinal column that was gradually making parts of her body numb and weak, not to mention her awful allergies. God has definitely been with her throughout all of these troubles and I can not thank him enough. Heck, if she didn't survive cancer, I wouldn't be born. The doctors still don't know how she survived it since she chose not to do chemotherapy or any type of treatment because she was pregnant with my older brother at the time. I just thank God that he has kept her in my life.

In other news, my 21st birthday is coming up here on May 31st. Dave is flying in from Seward to celebrate and hang out in Montana for a little over a week. There is going to be a live poker tourney on the 3rd that we will probably play in. Other than that, I'll try to give him some sort of Montana experience. We will be driving back to Seward on June 6th, because he has to be back on the 7th and I am going to work basketball camps at Concordia from the 10th through the 23th. After that, I will probably spend a few days in Hastings with Leah before returning to Montana.

On July 7th, I will be chaperoning my high school youth group on a servant event down to Juarez, Mexico. We are going spend a week building a house for a family in need down there. It will be a pretty simple house, but hopefully we can help them out as well as spread our faith to them and other Mexicans. We will fly back to Billings on July 14th and I really have no idea what my plans are after that. That is the plan for now. I'll update once again when something interesting happens.