Scars - Pt 2

According to webmd:


A ganglion cyst is a tumor or swelling on top of a joint or the covering of a tendon (tissue that connects muscle to bone). It looks like a sac of liquid (cyst). Inside the cyst is a thick, sticky, clear, colorless, jellylike material. Depending on the size, cysts may feel firm or spongy.






I was a sophomore in high school when I first noticed my cyst, mostly because of the pain I was experiencing :( Luckily, it appeared in my left wrist - which isn't my dominant hand - we had medical insurance at the time so I was able to see a Hand Surgeon. At the first consultation he tried to drain the cyst with a syringe.


During the next week, it reappeared.


So back we went to see the hand surgeon. At the next appointment he went ahead and scheduled an outpatient surgery at the beginning of my Christmas break so that I would have some time to heal.


I played the flute in high school, so I was going to need my left hand to be ready to go again at some point, lol.


The operation went well, and for the longest time it looked like I had a little dip in my wrist where the cyst used to be. I'm kinda bummed I don't have a picture of that to show you.


Here is my cool scar:

And guess what?

It came back!!

"Say hello to my little friend"

Do you have any "cool" scars?

Scars - Pt 1

I think that the whole unable to comment on blogs thing has left me kind of frustrated :-/

I've had almost absolutely no motivation to blog because of it. I get really annoyed :(

But I digress..

:D I will just email comments on posts that blogger won't allow me to post!

Recently a friend of mine was talking about a scar on his belly - I didn't get all the gory details, just that he had had surgery ... and then I began to tell him about a scar I had on my inner left arm.

Does anyone remember this generation of washing machines? :

 

Or maybe something similar??

My grandma has one similar, not exact - her's plugged into a electric outlet.

So many, many years ago when I was about 6ish I saw this fascinating thing in my grandma's storage. It was running and the rollers were turning. I must've had an "Oooh shiny" moment, because I just stood there in utter amazement! Next thing I know, I'm freaking touching the stupid rollers and before I know it my hand begins to go in between the rollers. I tried pulling back to get my hand free.

That didnt' work.

So then I tried to pull my left hand out with my right. That didn't work either, the right hand just became stuck right along with the left :(

The whole time I was screaming my little lungs out, only to find out later my parents heard the screaming and only thought that I was fighting with my little sister as we would frequently.

They heard enough screaming and finally came outside, which at this point I was past my elbows in. They panicked a bit, until they finally tried to calmy figure out how to get my arms out.

A couple hours later and a trip to the hospital, I got all bandaged up and sent home.

I didn't break any bones, I just tore up my skin pretty bad.

Here is my arm today:

And here's where I got that picture of the old machine from above:

 My loving older sister sent it to me. lol.

A good memory

I went to visit my mom this past Sunday. She was having technical difficulties getting music onto her mp3 player and called me asking if I could go and help her out. We got it all worked out and then we just sat around and talked for a bit. Out of nowhere she asks me about a particular book she had. She asked if I remembered when/where she got it. I couldn't. I remembered the book but I couldn't remember anything about it. Before I was about to leave she hands me some papers. They were pages taken out of one of her old journals. Later I showed my husband the pages and he suggested that maybe that's where I got my desire to blog from.

So I'm going to share her pages here.

After I read this - I remembered, almost clearly. And I teared up a bit. It was a good memory, and I'm glad that my mom wrote it down.

Memories.

So in high school I used to play this:

It was an easy way to get out of taking PE. LOL.

I played in the band and with the mariachi for 4 years.

Being in the Valley, Mariachi gets quite competitive. When I first got to high school, our Varsity team used to be one of the ones to beat. We had anywhere between 10-18 members at a time. It was like a little family. Good times.

So this week at work I kept hearing a commercial on the radio about some festival going on at UTPA and that Eva Longoria - Parker was gonna be a speaker with concerts following featuring Mariachi Vargas and some other group lol.

Now Mariachi Vargas is like the best of the best in mariachi music. They "live" in Mexico in Epcot at Disneyworld. When I was in high school we were fortunate enough to meet them, play with them, and learn from them in workshops.

So being fans, my sister, my fiance, and I were all interested in checking it out. One day my sister jumped on the computer to find out the exact time frame the concert was going to be and discovered they'd perform after a middle school/high school marchiachi group winner. Which meant there had to be a loser! lol. A competition! We got excited right away and were pretty determined in cathing the competition before the concert.

Sitting in the audience brought back memories. Some of the groups blew us away with how strong and together they were. Others disappointed and flooded our minds with memories of what they all used to be.

Mariachi Oro from McHi

 

Mariachi Los Coyotes from La Joya

Mariachi Vargas greeting everyone during the competition

Mariachi Primer Orgullo from Rio Grande

*** Please excuse the picture quality - I used my phone and we were not very close to the stage.

The afternoon continued with a walk to Which Wich for lunch and then some waiting outside by the parking lot for the festival to begin and get started. There was a book fair going on inside one building - Dr. Seuss themed complete with the grinch, the Cat in the Hat, and Thing 1 & Thing 2 walking around. They even had some cut outs that you could take your picture in.

At the end of the night before the exhibit closed. That's me on the left and my sister on the right.

We browsed through the book fair exhibit and then parked ourselves in the hallway to charge my phone. Good thing I almost always carry my phone charger with me! :)

Then we went outside in search of something to drink and to check out some of the booths they had. We didn't get very far becuase it wasn't long before they announced Eva Longoria-Parker was about to take the stage. So everyone, and I mean everyone made their way before the stage. I do have to admit it was awhile before she actually came out on stage, but she did eventually.

She's so teeny tiny!

She was there as a motivational speaker. She talked about the deficiency in literacy amongst Hispanics and how we as a community needed to stand together and turn off the tv's once in awhile and read to our kids to ensure that they get a fully rounded academic upbringing. So that they'll want to go to college and do great things in the community, and in the world.

Then after the winners of the mariachi competition played [again], and after the UTPA mariachi played a bit, it was finally time for Mariachi Vargas to take the stage! They did not disappoint, as I don't think they ever have. It was a great concert. And it was free so that made it all the more better!