Feeling fat!

Still trying to pound down the calories.  I'm eating everything I can along with nutrition drinks.  You know things are strange when Ensure drinks are beginning to taste good and I can do without Cokes. It is working as I have been able to increase my weight from 117 lbs to 128 lbs.  I'm going in the right direction with 140 lbs as my goal.  I feel as good now as I have before the operation.

Life is tough but I'm going to be tougher!  Life is also good and I appreciate everything I have.

Just a side note...The Doctors and Nurses at the Univ. Of  Utah are fantastic and Dr. Barbara Cahill and staff at the Pulmonary Clinic #3 are so professional and caring. Dr. Raman, Kelly Peterson Short, Tauna Maughan;  they're all exceptional people and treat you like family.  I also owe so much to Dr. Beth Scholand for helping me get this transplant!  I owe my life to these people.

I wrote a heartfelt letter to the donor family following the protocol the hospital requires to protect privacy.  I do not know who the donor was and it is up to the donor relatives if they wish to contact me.  It is such a sensitive thing given the fact that my life was extended at the cost of another life being lost.  I just want them to know how much I treasure this extension of my life.

Maybe some day...

See you all soon.

Dancin' The Night Away

Just one of the many nights since Christmas Eve 2011 that Dad has been able to enjoy with his granddaughters because of this generous lung transplant.  Events like this don't pass without all of us thinking the same thing:  that despite all of the financial and health challenges, all of the struggles to recover, all of the frustration with accepting new norms, that each and every day is a miracle ..... and each and EVERY picture with Grandpa now is priceless!