When Online Comes in Handy
Saturday, August 29th, 2009 |This week was slightly terrible. It dragged on and multiple problems reared their ugly heads. Oh well. Today I woke up and felt sick, in fact, most of this week I have been dragging my feet. The beauty of it all- I don’t have to go into campus. You know, when you feel sick it always gets worse when you have to go in to class. It was the only way I could keep up with school while battling cancer.
Off of that topic, I’ve been getting emails about the Swine Flu and how to prevent other illnesses. Haha. I get to stay all nice and wrapped up in my comfy blankets at home while doing classes. No need to go into school to expose myself to millions of germs. Then again, when I’m sick, I don’t go to school and expose the rest of you.
Another plus, I don’t have to go to campus and fight tooth and nail for a parking spot! Man! I drove into the parking lot the other day to pick up a book. Let’s just say that I almost burst into tears as I drove off….there was no empty parking space to speak of. Needless to say, I got the book and calmed down after awhile.
With the wedding coming up, I have time to work out. That’s a huge plus. After you go through 10-11 months of pure stress, chemotherapy, radiation, surgeries, and hardships….what do you think your body does? It crashes from trauma. It doesn’t know that everything can go back to normal right away.It takes months there afterward to find a balance. So what happens? It grabs onto any nutrients, fat, and anything else it can get. It kind of stores up on those things because it feels like the trauma will continue or come back. Exercise is the key to fighting depression and an unbalance of hormones that are bouncing around like pin balls. (plus you need to drink lots of water)
People often think that they won’t meet any new friends while taking online classes. That’s a myth. In my biology class we may start meeting to focus on the labs and help each other out on them by discussing, studying together, and bouncing ideas off of one another. Other classes, you have online discussions constantly going. (which gives you a lot or work to keep up on.)
So, there are some benefits and some additional thoughts. (there are more. However, I’m going back to bed.) I woke up this morning and thanked God that I didn’t have to go to campus in order to complete some classes for this week. I was too sick.
