Birthday Week

Today is my daughter Elysa’s 18th birthday.  She is actually out of town for the big occasion.  She is with a church group visiting Nauvoo IL.  We plan to celebrate with her tomorrow but Julie did make, or try to make arrangements for them to have a cake and sing happy birthday to her today.  I have never been a big birthday celebration person.  They are milestones and important but not major events in my life.  Julie on the other hand has always felt they should be grand celebrations.  Generally I am in trouble because I underemphasize them. Somewhere over the years for through a number of odd circumstances Elysa has managed to get multiple celebrations of her birthday every year.  Since this was a very big...

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Posted by on 1 Aug 2009 in Celebrations, Liver Transplant, Musings | Comments Off

24th Anniversary

I started back to work today.  Only a half day but after being in the hospital and out of the office for a month it felt good.  I am very fatigued but my leg seems to be doing much better and there is progress everyday.  The insomnia is still a problem and there are these horrible cramps that they can’t seem to relieve.  It is hard to know what are lingering symptoms of the cellulitis and what are symptoms of the cirrhosis. It is funny how life always seems to bring the unexpected.  When I started writing this blog a couple months ago my vision was to share thoughts and feelings that were meaningful to me, that inspired me.  After only a couple of those posts it seems to have become something of a medical journal.  I guess...

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Posted by on 20 Jul 2009 in Celebrations, Musings | Comments Off