Author: wakecarro

Trying to get my life from the past 4 months into a bag isn’t too easy. I give up…

It’s official. Yesterday I had a meeting at the Double Up office and signed the papers which turns me into a team rider. Stoked to be part of the team with some of the coolest people I’ve ever met. 2012 seems to be a good year! (:

Haha, I love stalefish grabs

Ehm, to Mitches Parent’s 😉 It was AMAZING to sleep in a normal bed and to wake up when I wanted and to get all the disgusting needles out of me! So happy!! Been making cookies while listening to Justin Bieber today and then ate them while watching a movie. Last night me and Mitch picked up Dylan as soon as I got out of the hospital. That is Dylan who I stayed with at Goldie, he’s down to ride the Moomba Master Competition this week-end.(I just found out that he won it again! Way to go Dylan!! (: ) We had taco night which was the first time in five days I managed to eat without feeling nauseous.

 This was like 2 days before surgery.. Wonder if my tan will survive this? 😉

So being in this hospital really makes me feel like a kid again. I’ve been watching the Lion King, put my arms over my chest and refused to eat and cried out lout when the nurses needs to put needles in my arms.

I. Hate. Needles.
I dont know why, they just make me really really uncomfortable and all the nurses here know that now. They’ve tried everything from doing it when I’m sleeping to numb cream but everytime they’re putting a needle in me, I’ve ended up crying (yeah, I’m a real chicken and I’m not hiding it) Thats why, today when they had to get some blood from me they sent in the big guns. This nurse was sooo nice and told me that she was going to use a needle called “the butterfly” which they normally use on little kids. I think she was used to treating kids cause she kept saying “aw, how brave are you?” and “you’re such a good girl” and I loved it. For the first time I didn’t cry!

Guess we all have some part of a kid in us and in my case, it definitely shows when I’m sick or in pain. I’m allowed to go ‘home today or home to Mitches parents who are without a doubt some of the nicest people I’ve ever met. Mitche’s mom made me home-made brownies which was the first thing I managed to eat without feeling nauseous after my surgery.

I can barely watch it now cause it makes me wanna ride so bad but you haven’t missed the website Wakegirls? Full of cool chicks on the water and it def. stokes me up so bad! Well, that was todays unload of thoughts… xx
/C

So I got a request from, probably, my biggest blog-reader (my brother) to write some about my time here at the hospital. Well it’s not that exciting it all started a couple of days ago with me waking up in the middle of the night with some stomach ache and just went on with my day as usual til the cramps made me go to sleep at like 1. I woke up a little later in some cramps, thinking it was just food poisoning, but we decided to go to the hospital anyways. Once in they kinda put me in a sexy night gown and to bed straight away and then surgery the next morning. I love how you just go in there and then wake up with no idea where or who you are but in zero pain and all fuzzy! Been in recovery the last few days and since my appendix actually broke on me they have to keep me under observation and give me some antiboitics. Anyone who has ever tried to put a needle in my arm knows how much fun it is and how big of a little kid I am when it comes to that kind of stuff.

So yeah, thats the story.. I never realized how many great friends I’ve made down here who really come and visit me and help me out! Ian from Double Up, Briony and your family and of course Mitch, and the rest of the Williams. As well as all the emails from my family back home in Sweden. I love you all more than my morphine button right now!

I’m kicking it pretty hard at the moment, watching movies and looking at changing some flight tickets. The hardest blow for me was hearding the doctor say that I shouldn’t do any “heavy lifting” for at least 4 weeks and then he asked me if my “body boarding” included such. This means that I will miss the World Cup next week-end and it makes me wanna punch a wall just thinking about it. Well I got to believe that everything happens for a reason so maybe this is the universe’s way of saving me.

Now that I’ve got internet at the hospital I might be able to blog some more! (: Thanks for all your sweet comments!

Be cool, stay in school…

/C

So, looks like I’ll be taking it easy on the blog-posts for a while. Just had surgery for my appendix but it went fine and I’m okay but they wont let me get back on my wakboard for a bit. This suckksss! Write me tons of e-mails and face-messages and I’ll get happy! (: Take care you guys!

Ibland känns det väldigt tungt att vara hemifrån såhär länge. Även fast jag har det grymt och stormtrivs så längtar jag ibland hem. Jag vet inte ens vad det är jag längtar efter, kanske är det bara tryggheten att veta att jag är hos min familj och att läsa reklam på svenska på tunnelbanan. Jag vet att jag blir rastlös efter bara ett par dagar hemma utan att åka bräda men ändå är dom där dagarna värda så otroligt mycket.

För det mesta när jag är ute och reser så njuter jag varje sekund men så klart finns det tider när jag bara känner för att lägga mig under sängen och dra ner rullgardinen. Speciellt när det kommer till träning som inte är wakeboard eller surfing. Typ att gå ut och löpa. Varför ska det vara så sjukt jäkla omöjligt att ibland sätta på sig dom där skorna??

Jag såg när jag var i Orlando sist en sån här lapp på min kompis Austins vägg hemma i sitt rum och efter det har jag kopierat idéen. Den sitter där som en boost när jag kommer hem efter att ha tagit världens krash på min bräda, när jag vaknar och inte kan gå ur sängen för all träningsvärk, när jag kommer hem efter en lång dag och sätter på mig löparskorna och när jag saknar min familj helt galet mycket.

Nyligen slog det mig dock att det är ju detta som är det vi letar efter. Det här kommer låta väldigt konstigt men jag ska försöka att inte flumma bort allt för mycket. Vi vill alltid ha mer, ju mer vi får. Vi jagar ju alltid något nytt så fort vi kommer över ett hinder/mål vill vi ta oss ann nästa. Många klagar över det, jag brukade också göra det, med kommentarer som “varför är vi aldrig nöjda med vad vi har” men det är ju för att det är utmaningen som är the rush! Living the chase 100% varje dag!

Just saw that team germany (Sigi and the others) put together this edit from South Africa. They really capured the vibe from the contest, def one of the best trips ever! get better soon Sigi!

Spirulina smoothie! Looks awesome, tastes awesome and is full of healthy stuff! Spirulina is a sort of seaweed which contains lots of protein and vitamins (perfect for us veggie’s). My room mate thought I’d forgotten about some juice in the fridge and was about to throw it out but nope, its supposed to look like that. yummm!

Such a good week-end checking out the Melbourne Night life with Catti, Luke and Fil. I had the best time but looks like Swedish people dont really know how much to drink 😉 I havent really had too many sick nights out in Melbourne but saturday was so much fun! Thanks everyone who made it sickk!

Weather sucks though so it’s been way too windy to take the boat out for a ride lately. Want to try and go for a surf tomorrow instead and I’ve finally located my wetsuit (Im going to need it since its only like 19 degrees right now).

Catti