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Life On Hold?

Nov 22, 2019 | Acceptance, Awareness, Growth, Recovery, Self-Help | 0 Comments

I was feeling depressed about putting my life on hold while helping my daughter as she recovers from her lung transplant. This chapter of the journey began almost a year ago. Since then I put my counseling practice on hold, taking very few new clients. I was feeling...

Abundance??? Abundance!!!

Nov 13, 2019 | Acceptance, Anna, Awareness, Duke Lung Transplant, Emotional Healing, Growth, Healing, Integration, Recovery, Self-Help | 0 Comments

Anna is slowly healing. She goes to Pulmonary Rehab Monday through Friday where she walks, bikes, lifts tiny weights, and stretches. Tuesdays are the exception because that's the day she goes to the clinic to see various medical personnel and her counselor. Yesterday,...

Sorrow And Celebration

Nov 4, 2019 | Anna, Awareness, Duke Lung Transplant, Emotional Healing, Integration, Recovery | 0 Comments

After 25 days in the hospital for her double lung transplant, Anna was discharged! I don't say, "Anna went home" because home is in CO and she can't go home until she has fully recovered. She went to our apartment in Durham. It's our cozy 'home' here. People in the...

The Ups And Downs Of Transplant Recovery

Oct 20, 2019 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

At this moment, Anna is peacefully resting. Over the past 24 hours that has not been the case. She has been feeling bloated, filled with lots of fluid and the usual post surgery/pain med back up in the poop arena. She stopped taking pain meds except for Tylenol a day...

Anna Got Her Lungs!

Oct 15, 2019 | Anna, Awareness, Duke Lung Transplant, Emotions, Growth, Recovery, Relationships, self care | 0 Comments

Hours after Anna's double lung transplant The wee hours of October 8 marked the beginning of Anna's eight hour surgery to replace her first set of gently used lungs with the precious lungs of another family's lost loved one. For Anna, it was exciting and terrifying...

Just Waiting

Oct 4, 2019 | Acceptance, Anna, Duke Lung Transplant, Emotions | 0 Comments

Waiting is becoming a very common theme in my posts. I wonder what you are waiting for? I think we are all waiting for something. Sometimes we're waiting for big things, sometimes we're waiting for small things. It can be hard to be patient in the waiting. We...

It’s Easier The Second Time

Sep 19, 2019 | Anna, Duke Lung Transplant, Emotions | 0 Comments

I'm back in Durham, NC with my daughter, Anna. She has been listed for a double lung transplant. That means she is in the national registry of patients waiting for donor lungs. The first time she was listed 6 years ago, we thought the call would literally be in...

Anna Is Moving Out Of Limbo!

Aug 20, 2019 | Anna | 0 Comments

For those of you who have been following my daughter's journey, she is now out of limbo...well sort of. Last week her lung functions took a dip so her Dr. at Duke said it's time to move to Durham, NC to start the pre-transplant process. This was sudden and yet very...

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