MADE IT 2 MONTHS!!

My new liver is officially been living with me for 2 months now!! Our living arrangement is working out just fine! :) All of my labs have continued to be perfect and some drugs are started to get weaned! Yes!!! Finally going down on the Prednisone! That drug makes me super emotional and gives me chipmunk cheeks that are slowly deflating! I am feeling well and building strength and energy everyday....and not to mention living up my life!

I am just not getting over a cold that I did happen to catch, but other than that, I have felt great on the inside. My incision is completely healed and pretty impressive. I like showing it off too, it's my battle wound and I am pretty proud of it! Still have back pain from time to time, but I had back pain even before my surgery.I am hoping to get back to acupuncture to help with the back pain and my overall well-being. It is definitely something I really enjoy!

In 2 weeks I will be 26! eeekkk, I am getting old! I plan on celebrating with friends and family and hopefully even going away to Charleston, SC for a few days with some girls from work. It'll be nice for a change of scenery. And if you know me, you know I love the beach, even if its cold out.

Hope all is well!

xx, R

watch out drivers, i'm baaack!

Hey Everyone!!

Quick update:

No signs of rejection, perfect labs and more meds are getting weaned! YES!!!!!!!!!! Great stuff. This is a pretty awesome liver!!

And yes, I can drive again! Now I understand, however, why the docs say not to for 6 weeks...you really do use a lot of your abdominal muscles. It's not easy for me to drive long distances quite yet or anywhere with a bunch of turns (driving in the city is a lot harder on me). But it's alll good!

Still having intermittent bad back pain, but my doctors are letting me take baby doses of tylenol which doesn't always help. However, if I take the stronger stuff I'm prescribed, I can't drive...so I can't be held back so the tylenol will just have to do!

My gym membership is valid again Feb 1, so I am super anxious to get back in there and work out some of my kinks and rebuild my muscle. My muscles are so mushy! I also am going to take some hip/hop dance classes. I miss dancing so much and it's such a FUN way to work out.

Hope you all are well!!

xx, R

2010

It's 2010!!

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a great holiday season and a very safe new year.

Christmas was everything I had hoped for and more...spent a lot much needed time with family and it was awesome. Had a great time at my Aunt's with all of my cousins...we always laugh so much! My bro and sis in law cooked an awesome meal too and there was even snow on the ground! What more could one really ask for?

So now it's a new year and I am ready to take on the world. I have so many goals.
First, still recovering and building my strength....then (in no particular order..) I plan to travel..to Vegas, NY, the Carribean, California! I am ready to hit the gym and start training to do the 6 mile relay( at the very least) for the Baltimore Marathon this fall. Get back to work...get information about going back to school...become a Certified Pediatric Nurse. Of course be a good daughter, sister, nurse, student, girlfriend, godmother/aunt..etc. And of course educate as many people as possible about organ donation...and hopefully get many people to register!

I am now 6 weeks post-op....and hopefully at my clinic appointment this Wednesday, they will tell me I can drive again. Yay!

That's all for now!

xx,
R

This picture is me and my neice, Madison on Xmas..