Dear Heart,
Well, our time together is coming to an end. I don’t know when, but you will soon be leaving me. I’m having a really hard time saying goodbye. You’ve been the center of my life for 41 years. Every decision I made had you factored […]
Well, our time together is coming to an end. I don’t know when, but you will soon be leaving me. I’m having a really hard time saying goodbye. You’ve been the center of my life for 41 years. Every decision I made had you factored […]
Since I’ve been approved for transplant, I’ve started to receive a lot of questions about the process. As always, the goal of my blog has to been to use my story to create awareness about the struggles of living with a chronic illness and to […]
So, I’m realizing that I’m not the most consistent blogger. One would think that sitting at a computer typing would be a nice sedentary activity for someone in heart failure. But with heart failure comes less oxygen and some days my poor under oxygenated brain […]
Over the course of my adult life, June has not always been very nice to me. I don’t have the best track record with avoiding hospitals in June. In college, I started getting severe atrial fibrillation in June and spent almost six weeks in the […]
This folder is a scary folder. I know that it looks pretty plain and inconspicuous. It didn’t try to bite me or cut my hand off or anything. But I’m going to need you to trust for me a minute when I tell you that […]
Congrats; you’ve survived two months of being legally bound to my medical mayhem! As we stood in that gazebo, you became more than just my husband. You officially became the next of kin of a chronically ill person; the person viewed as my primary caregiver, […]
So, I realize now that I may kinda suck at this whole blogging thing…another six months has passed since my last blog post. I still want to write my blog. I still have A LOT to say about life as an adult congenital heart patient […]
“When God closes a door, He opens a window.” Everyone loves to look out a window in anticipation of what’s coming. Waiting for grandma to arrive, keeping an eye out for the UPS man with your Amazon package, watching for your loved one to come […]
I grew up in the Midwest and currently live in the South; two areas that are known for their politeness. In the Midwest we barely bump into someone and out comes “Ope! Excuse me” without pause. In the South, it’s a constant parade of “Yes, […]
So, I’m realizing that when you write a blog about your struggles with a serious chronic health condition and you don’t write anything for five months that people start to worry that you’re dead or mostly dead. Rest assured, I am still alive and still […]