Make YOUR Voice Heard!

    So we are giving you another chance to make your voice heard! You know how in class you have to go around and do those "getting to know you" activities where you have to choose a word that describes you to help people remember your name? Well we are doing something like that! If someone asked you to use ONE word to describe yourself what would you choose? What word defines you? It can start with the first letter of your first name, or can be any word of your choosing (appropriate though please :)). Once we decide to end this activity (which, who knows when that will be right?!), we will combine the words into a collage and post it on our Facebook, blog, and Twitter! How fun is that?!
    Are you interested in participating in this fun activity?! If you are, you can email, tweet, facebook, or comment on this blog post, the word of your choosing! New to seeing/following our blog? Here is the information you can send your word to! Facebook: message us (or post on our wall if you're that brave :) ) by searching Turners Bloggers. Email: email us at turnersbloggers@yahoo.com. Twitter: tweet @TurnersGirls

Scars at ISRC

What is ISRC you ask? It stands for Idaho Society of Respiratory Care. Why am I writing about it? Well I am at an ISRC conference today and tomorrow, and it has been AWESOME! I won't bore you with the details, but one thing I thought was really cool was a CF(cystic fibrosis) patient who came and talked to us. She talked about her experiences with CF. We haven't learned much about CF in my program yet, but it is definitely not a fun disease! I found it very easy to relate to her because she talked about her struggles with her disease and how tough her life really is. It is so inspiring. She wrote a book about how scars are beautiful and it just kinda made me think. Us Turners Girls may not have visible scars, and some of us do, but we have emotional scars. Turners can be wearing and exhausting mentally and emotionally-for the TS girls and for their families. But you know what? Those "scars" just make you more beautiful! They have shaped you into the wonderful, amazing person you are! You are like a diamond. Something unimpressive until it goes through an extreme amount of heat and pressure and voila it becomes something gorgeous! So when you are sad, think of yourself as a diamond in the rough-your experiences with TS and in life are just polishing your own personal diamond and making you more and more beautiful. So wear those scars (emotional or physical) with pride! They are an emblem that you are a fighter and that you won't give up!

So here are some inspirational pictures/sayings:

Life 2.0

So, Ashley said I have to do a blog again, so Here I am :)

Hello! I was going to do something about Linda Hunt, but, I can't find for sure if she has Turners or not.  I didn't find anyone else, so fail on that account.

I graduate in May, and its the scariest thing in the world. I am looking for a job, and its hard! I am having a blast with life. I have NO math classes, and we all know how amazing that is! I found an internship with the Turner syndrome Foundation, I may apply for.  I am looking for-any job, anywhere!
I really have nothing to say but that our facebook page is fourth when you google "this ones for the girls"  and that makes me excited!
Well, I have to deal with this crazy paper, so as always, Hasta La Pasta!

This Crazy, Beautiful Life!

So it has been a while since I have done an update on my life huh? Well things are pretty good, I am in my second semester of the RT program and I love it! It has been one of the toughest semesters of my entire college career, but I wouldn't have it any other way! Other than school, I'm loving being a CA (I told you about this right?) Being a CA is hard work, but it so rewarding when I get to hear things from my residents like "You're a great CA"! I love being able to help people, it genuinely makes me so happy! Married life is completely amazing!!!!!!  I am still trying to find the wife-CA-student balance (and sometimes I epically fail at it!) and it has been tough, but when I let go of my OCD (I'm pretty sure I have told you about this one, if not, my name is Ashley and I am horribly, horribly OCD (*insert like AA introduction here*) and focus on the more important things than cleaning (and yes I'm discovering there are such things! Crazy right?!) life is pretty darn good. Anyway, I have a test tomorrow that I am avoiding studying for...I mean taking a study break...by blogging and I need to go study again before my staff meeting! Oh, and I promise that you will get more substantive blog posts from me again when life slows down (oh wait, does that happen??).

Life

Britt here
 so, about this book thing....well, life kinda got in the way of that hu? maybe after I graduate, life will not be so busy (hey, a girl can dream right?)

I am starting to look for post-collage job options., scary and exciting.
not much else going on in my life, just homework and work.  lots of homework.

I have to get back to this paper, so ta ta for now! :)

Book Update

So we don't have much done on the book...ok let's be honest we really haven't gotten anything done yet. I knew it would be hard to find free time to write. And when I do have free time my only thought is hanging out with the hubby (yes I'm still in that disgusting I love my husband and don't want to be away from him mode) not writing in the book. I love the idea of writing a book, but being a student, being a CA, and having a semblance of a life, have proven issues to writing. But, we are writing, I promise :). We just need to really set time aside to write (maybe I will look into doing that at least one day a week. We did tell you to be patient with us ;) so until we really get time to work hard on it...the book release date is still TBD. We will do our best to keep you guys updated and will hopefully have some book previews to let you see soon. So stick with us during this learning time :)

We're Writing A Book!!!!

So a little while ago Brittany and I decided to do something that was really exciting for me, and for Brittany. We are going to write a book about Turners and our experiences with Turners. Brittany has always wanted to do a book about TS, but it never occurred to me. I mean, I like to write, but no one, and I mean no one reads my stories so this is pretty big! This is going to be a kind of slow process, we are both in school :). So we are going to work on it slowly and see how long it takes. We don't even have a 100% set goal for when we want to publish. So we have decided to do a little teaser I guess. We are both going to work on a chapter and then get it polished so that we can put a little excerpt on the blog and our Facebook! These excerpts may not even end up in the book when all is said and done. We are going to polish them up, and they will probably be different if they end up in the book at all. We aren't sure when we are going to even get these excerpts up on the blog or Facebook, but be looking out for them! We are excited about this and hope you are all excited for the finished project!