Having such a good time!

Well the last few months have flown by but mostly because I'm keeping so busy! My very special friend has been making the most of her new lungs, she is now happily able to walk up the 2 flights of stairs to my flat so has been round at least 3 times in the last 3 weeks! We have also been able to go out for dinner without any major planning. The highlight has been that we had friends round to our flat on Friday night and her and her boyfriend stayed till 1am, it was just so relaxed and so lovely.
Since last blog I have also sold my car and bought a new one which is quite exciting! I have also decided to do a big 4 week holiday next year. As a drama teacher I want to visit my mecca (Broadway!). So the trip at the mo is planned as New York -7days, Las Vegas -7days, Calgary -7days, ? -7days! Haven't decided on another location! So the money saving begins!

Strange goings on!

Quite a few things have happened since I last blogged. In early January this year I found a lump in my left breast, this led to a dr's referral to specialist breast clinic which resulted in all clear results. Even so it's not a particularly pleasant experience and for anyone who has a slightly less positive result than me I can't even begin to understand what that really feels like!
Second big event: I have suffered some pretty major shoulder, neck and head pain recently and after my 3rd episode and the suggestion at midnight that I may need to go to hospital by my husband, I decided that neither of us could tolerate this any longer, went back to the Dr who suggested more pain killers and as I'm not a great fan of intoxicating my body I decided to see a chiropractor. This visit to the chiropractor I now refer to as my £60 miracle! I have not felt this good in a very long time! I'll write more when I have been again for a check up.
Another bit of good news is that I'm planning to go and see my special friend Emily (www.pinkandsmiley.blogspot.com) and I have been waiting for this for some time! Will update on that too very soon.

Developments!

I received a text today from the boyfriend of my special friend, I am now allowed to visit her and this is something I desperately need to do. Some people would find it weird that I'm happy to go and see her connected to machinery and tubing etc but having seen her in various hospitalised states before, that is the least of my concerns! Will continue to update with progress (even if all it achieve is to create a bit of space in my brain by venting!)

Sometimes life takes you by surprise!

I always find January a bit of a strange time of year, nothing much going on, feeling pretty broke after Christmas and the weather is blooming miserable! This year however has proved to be some what of an anomaly to this pattern as on the 4th of January my close friend had a call to tell her some lungs were available! She has been waiting for this call for somewhere in the region of 20 months and in that time only ever had one false alarm. So on Thursday 4th January she traveled to her transplant hospital and later that evening I had the best phone call of my life when her boyfriend called to tell me the transplant was going ahead. This gave a strange wash of excitement, nerves and an all round erratic emotional state. I knew I would be one of very few people receiving this call so pulled myself together and began calling people to tell them. To some relief to me others were reacting in a similar way!
It's a difficult situation because although you want to leap around being very excited at the thought of a 22 year old female going from not being able to dress herself without getting warn out to leading a next to normal life; you have to be brought back down to earth by remembering how many risks are involved. I can honestly say it is the strangest emotional state I have ever been in! I am lucky that I have such an amazing group of friends who have been equally concerned about me and how I'm coping (remembering my friends are like this is not my forte). So I am now constantly waiting for even the tiniest portion of news that might somehow indicate it has worked and she will be ok, but fortunately the sensible part of my brain in constantly reminding me that this is a long and dangerous road and anything could happen.