Hey everyone

I wanted to start out by thanking everyone that sent good vibes or prayed for me before or after my heart surgery, before my last check up and for my nursing school dilemas.  u guys rock!

At this point in my life I feel like things are finally getting back on track.   I had an echo done of my heart. It was a very traumatic and to be honest, a painful and emotional experince (the guy that did it was an ass, and I still have bones that are healing, he could have cared less).  Well i got the results last week. I have a little more leaking from my tricuspid valve and my lungs have a lot of pressure in them. But nothing seems that much worse than before my surgery, or in other words I am as healthy as u can be after having to have a mass the size of a golfball removed from inside of your heart. lol  It was great to hear this news, I don't even have to see my cardiologist for 6 months. I feel as though I am almost normal again. But alas the blood thinners for the rest of my life, keep me in check. :)

Now on to the news that I just got this week. I have been finishing up my application for Grand Canyon Universitys accelerated nursing program. I  ( if accepted) would have been starting in january. I got everything in early and last semester I graduated from community college with 2 associates. This week they called me and told me that my GPA was stellar and that they had a opening in the program starting in sept., they said I was the number one candidate and asked me if I would except the postition. Of course I said YES!!! but I had to wait and get the dean of nursing approval because I haven't finished two prereqs (biomedical ethics and a christian studies course) neither have anything important to do with the program LOL. But I got the call yesterday that I am in!!!!!!!!  I am so happy, something finally went in my favor, all those good karma points I have been racking up Finally paid off, BIG TIME!!!  Anyways I have been running around trying to get all my records and health check offs done. I go to orientation Tomorrow!!!!!  This is going to be nuts the program is accelerated, I get two weeks off a year! one for chrsitmas, one for summer! no spring break for me. But it is the best program in the state, and nationally ranked. I think the program is around 20 months, so I am sorry if I start to lose touch with some of you. Nursing school is hell, but i can't wait :).    

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The 24th marks the one year anniversary of my surgery, and I am well. I am celebrating with friends and family on the 25th, by going to a place kinda like chuck e chesse for adults. ( if u wanna come send me a message).  On the 26th is Family Values tour. KoRn has been a constant in my life since I was 10 years old, so I can't wait for that!!!!!   I got my lip pierced on the 8th, I love it. I hope to be able to get my nose pierced and healed before clinicals, where I will have to put in a clear one. I am so so so happy. thank you everyone for everything, u guys are literally a life saver for me. muah love u all. call or message me anythime!!           xoxoxo  AJ

Ok this took me awhile, 95% of the songs are from my own ipod. Try to define yourself from an ipod?! lol.  What music would use in the soundtrack to your life? or your own movie? I actually learned some stuff about myself in doing this. So please try it for your self and send me the results. Maybe I will do another one at a late date, of songs I don't own. :)  LOVE

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Your Life: The Soundtrack
Opening credits:	A Praise Chorus - Jimmy eat World
Waking up:	Wake Up - KoRn
Average day:	Another day - Mest
First date:	first date- blink 182
Falling in love:	I'd do anything - Simple Plan
Love scene:	Take it off- The Donnas
Fight scene:	bodies - drowning pool
Breaking up:	The diary of Jane - Breaking Benjamin
Getting back together:	There is - box car racer
Secret love:	Girlfriend - avril Lavigne
Life's okay:	welcome to my life - Simple plan
Mental breakdown:	mad world - micheal andrews (donnie darko)
Driving:	Move bitch - ludacris
Learning a lesson:	the kill - 30 seconds to mars
Deep thought:	my immortal - Evanescence
Flashback:	Here you me - Jimmy eat world
Partying:	Fight for your right- beastie boys
Happy dance:	peanut butter jelly time- Brian of Family guy
Regreting:	I feel so - box car racer
Long night alone:	Dancing with myself - The Donnas
Death scene:	I will follow you into the dark- death cab for cutie
Closing credits:	this life - Primer 55
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Hello everyone

I wanted to let you all know I am doing well (health and otherwise). After having been through everything this summer, I have decided to follow my dreams. As some of you know I auditioned for a role as an extra in the Universal Studios movie "Kids in America". Well they called me in for a larger role, I did well, but I wasn't the exact type they wanted. I did however get the role as a nerd, in the background. ( In one scene I am passed out on the dance floor)     We shot for about 3 weeks on camelback mtn. Sometimes the days were 15 to 16 hours long, and I would have to go straight to class, but I enjoyed every second of it. I am really glad I didn't get the larger role, becuase I learned a lot about movies and I  made so many new friends. I hope all of you will go see the movie when it comes out, there are so many talented actors in it. Topher Grace (that 70's show, spiderman 3), Anna Faris (Scary movie series, the hot chick), Micheal Ian Black ( I love the -- VH1), Michelle Trachtenberg (ice princess),  Chris Pratt (OC, Everwood) and the list goes on an on. Also every single one of them was extremely friendly and worked so hard. It was a blast. Also look for updates on the movie, and my upcoming audition in L.A.

love u all, thanks for all the support

AJ

Hi everyone

I just wanted to update u all on everything. I am doing really well. So far my heart seems to be just fine, and we have gotten my blood stabilized. On Dec. 4th Erik and I moved into a house in Gilbert. It is within 2 blocks of both our families homes. We had everyone over for Christamas and it was really great.

I was unable to continue Nursing school because they changed the program while I was recovering. I have to start over and re-apply. :( sux.  So i decided to graduate this semester from MCC with 2 Associates degrees and I will continue my nursing next semester from Grand Canyon University. (hopefully). 

I really think the surgery has been healing for me in a lot of ways and I am more driven then ever to accomplish my goals. I even went to an audition yesterday for a movie being shot here in phoenix with Topher Grace ( from that 70's show). It is probably going to be just backround/extra work, but I think I may have actually gotten a part. They had us all dance to 80's music and then they took my picture and the girl next to me picture, out of about 20 people. So that would be really exciting. I have always wanted to be a paid actor. ( I dont want to be famous, I just wanna be able to pay my bills LOL)   I am also thinking about putting an act together and going to the Improv on Amateur  night.

I cannot thank you all enough for the love, support, and prayers. You all helped save my life and I am eternally grateful.

Adrienne

About a year and a half ago when my friends and i were learning to take blood pressures my friend noticed my heart skipped beats so at my physical i had an ekg   it was normal except for a lil skip beat so we decided to just wait. a year later i had another ekg with the sa,e results so we decided to do a 30 day heart moniter test. I would wear it and push abutton when  i felt my heart skiping and it would record it and then i would transmit the recording over the phone. the first few just showed a fast beat ( tachycardia) but nothing really alarming so i  just kept wearing it and made an appointment to see a cardiologist for sept 12.

The morning of the 22 (the day before I was supposed to go back to nursing school) I woke up and walked slowly to the bathroom to brush my teeth and start my day, when all th sudden my heart went really out of rythmn it felt fast and like the top and bottom of y heart werent beating in time. I hit the record button on my heart moniter and figured it would go away, I gave erik a kiss goodbye and he headed off to work. five minutes later my heart was still off and i was getting a lil short of breath so i  recorded and again and sent the results over the phone, where the tech told me it was a normal reading. so i waited another ten minutes and it still didn't go away. I drove my self to urgent care but it was closed so I headed to gilbert where there is a hospital that is only and ER and gets u im fast. I called my mom and had her meet me there, I was hoping i was only having a weird panic attack even though I wasn't streessed or anxious. once I was checked in they hooked me up to a heart monitor which showed my heart wasn't in rythmn and my blood pressure was all over the place, my heart rate was in the 160s ( 60-80) is normal resting rate. My doctor seemed worried and everyone kept saying i was too young for this. I kept up a happy face though joking with nurses about how it took an hour to get an IV in me ( i'm a really hard stick), plus i wanted outta there cause I had class the next day.  They ruled out a heart attack but my heart was really out of rythmn, the blood work was positive for pulmonary embolism ( blot clot in the lung) but that test is only about 50 hey order are series of scan tests which came up postitve for multiple embolisms in both lungs, I was very lucky to be alive. We thought this had to be the worst.  I was started on heparin to dissolve the clots and i was transffered to a heart hospital by ambulance to continue my care that we thought would take like 3 days max. At the heart hospital there were more tests to figure out what was causing my heart to be out of sync. 2 days worth.  Finally a doctor ordered a echo of my heart ( like a ultra sound) , even i thought something looked odd but i barely know much so I was hopeful. the tech asked if i had seen a cardiologist before, i still hoped for the best. I over heard her tell a nurse  right atrium  and its HUGE. I got scared and needed to take soemthing to calm down it took like 10 hours for a doctor to read the results. My doctor came in she looked upset and shocked,  she held my hand and she looked almost teary. I knew it was bad.  Sh told me that I had a very very large mass INSIDE the right atrium of my heart and that it was moving around and hitting my tricuspid valve and that it needed to be removed immediatly. She said a surgeon had been called and he would be here to see me in a couple hours. I was in pure shock and to make it worse my father was on an airplane and wouldnt find out untill he arrived at the hospital.  The surgeon told me that this was very rare he had only done maybe 10 of these types of open heart surgery and they only come in to hospitals about once a year. I was scarrd but ready i knew it had to come out. My family gathered around me and called for prayer circles. My father arrived around 9. we sent my boyfriend to pick up my brother from the airport since we scheduled surgery for 730 the next morning  not even 12 hours after finding out. but at about 1130 I was talking with ,my parent and i started to feel funny  dizzy and go numb I hit the call button and the I got this tunnel vision. The nurse rushed in and I was crashing fast i turned ashen and blue ( mom told me) my blood pressure was 50 over 30  ( norm is about 120/70) they pushed meds and gave me more oxygen and i felt better. I gave my parents who looked scares a thumbs up and said i was to stubborn to die   it was okay. I knew i needed surgery now and i was ready. the surgeon came in and said i was right we were going as soon as the team was ready. the rest of my family rushed back to the hospital and i went to icu to prep for surgery. i prayed with the nurses and reassurred my family i was ready and i could do this. I kissed everyone good bye and told the surgeon lets roll. ( humor is always my defense)   In the OR they were playing rap the asked if i wanted it changed but i said whatever u like as long as it saves me LOL. as soon as i was put to sleep I offically died my heart and lungs stopped so the hurried to open me up my heart had swollen twice its size  the mass in my lung had broken free and was completely blocking my pulmonary artery. 5 more minutes and he wouldnt have been able to help me. They got me going again but I quickly died again before they could hook my heart to the bypass machine. once again  they saved me and fished out the huge mass that they even took pics of. my heart went back to normal size and color. Now the doctors told my parents the good and bad news, I made it through but i was without oxygen for a while so they werent sure i would wake up or if I would have brain or heart damage. I was wheeled to icu where I was on a ventilator and had 12 lines mostly in my neck as well as 2 3/4 inch tubes in my chest to drain offf the fluids   I was awake it was scary for 6 hours I could her everything and choke on the ventilator but i couldnt even move my eyelids. when i was finally able to get my eyes partially open i knew i needed to signal to my parents that i was okay because i even heard my father crying and he has NEVER cried aound us before. my mom had my hand and i managed to move a finger and she said do u hear me and i moved it again, i heard eveyone begin to celebrte quietly. the next few days were painful but full of progress they removed the breathing tube first then I got to sit up then I got som lines in my jugular out then the chest tubes (OUCH) that day i walked about 48 hours after surgery. Everyone even the surgeon said i was a miracle and I made lots of great friends. I am very stubborn so i pushed my self to walk and breath and I got out 7 days after surgery. I am now at home it will take 6 weeks for my sternum, which is now wired in place to fuse. i almost cant believe it happened but i have a huge inscion thats still healing on my chest and two holes from the chest tubes. It has happened so fast but I feel so lucky and happy to be alive. I am now on blood thinners and lots of pain meds because I also cracked a rib.  I ned lots of help still   I cant lift more than 5lbs  I cant use my arms to help move me    sit stand...  I cant put my hands above my head to wash my hair ( thanx for the help mom) I have  a pillow shaped like a heart to brace my sterbum when i cough or move.   but each day i get a lil better and all the visits and prayers from people mean a lot. I know this was long but I still shortened it. My surgery was the 24th of aug. and i am looking forward to a full recovery. Oh and that mass in my heart turned out to be a huge blood clot so we are on the search for what caused it. for 6 months I'm on a blood thinner just in case. I love u all   I am so happy to have a second shot a life.

Adrienne

sorry for the grammar and spelling it is hard for me to type and the lap top on me is heavy

Woohoo finally 21   yay, and for all of u I finally got a pic up it is a bad one taken very late on a camera phone and my eyebrows hadn't been waxed in forever but I love u guys so it is just for u. hey watch out it looks like my forehead my eat the world lol. thanks for the b-day shout outs. LOVE U ALL

Adrienne

Just to let all of you know My mom and i finally got back to the Az a couple of days a go. She is doing better and recovering well from her ( little )  heart attack. We brought my 14 year old nephew with us so if u all have any ideas of things to do or places to take him let me know. He's not really a the outdoorsy type though.      I am feeling a lil better    I have an appointment with the neurologist in a week in a half so wish me luck all. 

thats enough for now   LOL

Adrienne Jones

So I went to the doctor yesterday because for years I would on and off have muscle pain and recently weakness in my left side. Well last week it progressed to the right side I couldn't even pump freaking gas without using two hands. There are days where I wake up and it feels as though I was hit by a train and I am in a lot of pain, but I hide the pain and push through it because so many others around me are so much worse off. Well any the doctor told me a list of things it could be, she said the number one choice is MS and I might need to get a spinal tap. She said I at least have fibromyalgia, arthritis, or lupus if its not MS. It didn't really affect me that bad untill I was watching some eventing ( show jumping) on TV, and then the thought hit me. I really want to do eventing or at least have a horse the rest of my life.....what if I wont be able to ride anymore.  Erik said he would marry me no matter what........but I don't know if I want to put him through seeing me go through it ( if it is MS). I know a lot of people don't die from it anymore,but the younger you get it the more likely u will at least end up in a wheel chair.   could u all pray for me that it isn't MS, I know fibromyalgia isn't a picnic but it seems better of the two.  LOVE u guys thanks for all your support. Don't worry I couldn't get in to the Neurologist to late June..so lets just push it out of our minds, at least untill my blood work comes back.