Integrated depth

For a general update, read numbers 1 through 3. For an extra degree of depth, read on to number 4.
1. Thank you Bob and Heather for coming to my site. That's the coolest ever! Yay! Feel free to check out my other blog too. You can find out how by reading the post "I'd call this Untitled, but that would just be lame."
2. I officially have plane tickets, and now I'm starting to believe that this trip is really happening. I am gone to Kentucky (and Nashville!!) from March 22-29th, which is not as long as I had hoped for, but those flight dates basically saved me $250. The cool thing is that I'll get to have part of Easter Break here, too, so hopefully I'll get to see lots of people.
3. Valentine's Day (on the 26th) was THEE best Valentine's Day since the invention of Valentine's Days. ["since the invention of the kiss, there had been three kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind."] It puts all other Valentine's Days in the non-existent category.
4. I'm trying to follow the "don't worry, be happy" philosophy, but I'm uber upset. Well I don't think that's the right word. It's more like just numb. You wouldn't be able to tell by my ability to still crack jokes (and dang, I'm funny). But anyway, I went to the ear, nose and throat specialist today.
The whole story: First I got a hearing test done. I must say I actually enjoyed it. Comes from all those years of ear training tests during RCM exams I think. I got to sit in a little booth with head-phones on and squeeze a trigger whenever I heard a beep, no matter how loud or quiet, high or low. I have above average hearing. Apparently. But they wouldn't tell me how much. I noticed that the test for the left ear and right ear were exactly the same.
So after that I saw Dr. Gore-Hickman, who knows my singing teacher very well (they're both basically the best in their fields). So everything he told me he related into music-mechanics, and gave me his findings in note form to give to Lisa.
He sprayed this horrible stuff in my nose ("Wow. That's a formidable scent... It stings the nostrils..."), which numbed my nose and throat so he could stick a tube up my nose and down to my chords.
Good news(es): My sinuses are fine (sigh-Ness), and nothing is inflamed. I don't appear to be asthmatic or allergic.
The bad news is not so cool, but could be worse. There is a very minimal amount of damage on my chords-very early stages. In the grand scheme it's not that much of a biggy; but as a singer it totally freaks me out. As if I didn't have enough to worry about in this year.
So now it's back to life in suspension until I talk to Lisa and find out what this means. Getting my ARCT is so important to me; I can't even tell you. I need lots of prayers and hugs. All I can do now is work really hard at rehabilitation, and not give in to despair. If there's one thing I know about me, it's that I was born to sing. God tell me everything's going to be okay.
-numbNess (In more ways than one- wake up throat!!)