So let me start from the beginning. At the end of 2015 during the holiday season I had gifted my boyfriend a whole year of pre- planned dates for us to do every month of the upcoming year. We are both college students with full time jobs and though we make time to see each other I wanted to make it fun to go out and just be together. That year ended great; my oldest sister had welcomed my adorable niece Harper,  I had worked extremely hard at community college to finally be accepted into a university, being the first in my family this was my greatest accomplishment thus far. Though that year was great every New Years my family and I write down our goals we are working towards accomplishing in the upcoming year. I had a great 2015 but I knew I was not close to where I wanted to be, it all happens with time so I wrote down my goals and had yet another plan for the upcoming year. Fast forward to 2016  and that year had brought a lot of first for me. Early in the year I had officially became the godmother of my beautiful niece. I had also been working towards getting my own car since I was going to begin school that  fall semester. I worked hard and finally did it. I had celebrated my 6th year anniversary with my boyfriend that July and we had actually been keeping up with our year of dates. Everything was falling into place and going as planned, life couldn’t be better; yes I had some struggles in between but all in all I was happy. That August I finally started school. My boyfriend as well surprised me by winning tickets on the radio ( yeah I know what luck right!) to Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas that upcoming September. I am a huge country music fan and all my favorites were on the line up that year. Even though I wanted to see all the artist, I was most excited for my favorite country artist Luke Bryan. Me and my boyfriend worked together and we booked our hotel, started slowly saving and planning our entire time at the festival that weekend. It was finally September, and that happens to be my boyfriends birthday month and his birthday was a week before we would be in Vegas for the festival, so we hadn’t really celebrated since we were planning to celebrate that weekend.  The month was flying by I was busy with work, school and I was so excited for the festival, until the unexpected happen.

September 21st started out as any Wednesday did, I had class the night before and woke up early that morning to head out to work. I am so lucky to work with my mom and oldest sister, so as usual on days I didn’t have class and didn’t have to leave early we carpooled together to work. I was working my department alone that day and we had arrived earlier than most days. We said our see you at lunch and went our separate ways to our designated areas to begin our work day. I felt normal until suddenly I had an onset headache, I’ve gotten headaches before ( who hasn’t right?) so I took Advil and tried to continue with my morning. I had an internal feeling that something was wrong the pain I felt escalated quickly  and I rushed to my mom and told her “ I don’t feel good I don’t know what’s wrong I have a horrible headache but it doesn’t feel normal I feel like my head is going to explode”. Ironically me and my boss had been talking about her experience with family members who’ve had a brain aneurysm rupture and working for a home health agency and having patients with medical accidents all day long, I panicked quickly. My mom said let’s go to the emergency room if you don’t feel good, at first I said I can’t I was in charge of my department that day and couldn’t leave, but that quickly changed. With the increase pressure I felt in my head, I agreed and we left. We were on our way to the hospital and the pain continued escalate. I became sensitive to the light, nauseous, I began shaking and my head felt like it was about to explode. I literally wanted to just remove my head with the amount of pressure and pain I felt. The ride to the emergency room felt longer than it truly was. Upon arrival they took me in quickly and started asking questions about my medical history. I was then taken for a CAT scan.  After I was moved to a patient holding room they gave me medication to ease the pain. It wasn’t long until the doctor came over to me, my mom was present, and he uttered the scariest words I’ve heard, “ We did a CAT scan we saw you have a brain bleed and we aren’t sure the source we need to run a few more test to know what’s happening”. I quickly looked to my mom and though she tried to put a brave face I saw the sheer fear overtake her face. The doctor left and she looked at me and said your going to be okay I’m going to call your dad and sister and let them know what’s happening, she left and I immediately began to cry. I was scared I didn’t know what was happening or what would happen. From that moment on everything changed.