Nervous
My appointment is tomorrow. I’m very nervous about it, but also excited. I haven’t been below 300 pounds since I began this clinical trial 3 years ago. so that is the first goal.
The second goal is to find some sort of exercise I like. I do enjoy swimming, I do enjoy light weight lifting, and walking. That is about it. I never enjoyed team sports. I was never coordinated enough to do them, and as a result was more in the way than anything else during gym class where the other kids knew how to play all the sports. I always received a good grade in gym though because I wasn’t a bad sport. I knew I sucked, but I also knew I had to at least try. And I did. But the memories are enough to make me cringe. I hope to replace them with some good ones. 
My dad received his new kidney about 5am on November 1. I’ve heard conflicting stories about the donor. So the new kidney is either from a 17 y/o kid with a GSW to the head, or a 19 y/o student @ UW, originally from St Louis, in a car accident. No matter, the kidney is very at home in my dad. He looks great, he feels great. I stayed with him all last weekend. We played cards and just hung out. I’m so glad he’s ok. You have no idea.
A few weeks ago when I went to see my Gram in the nursing home, there was a meteor shower. Everyone else had left & my stepmom & I were talking & decided to go outside to see it. We saw where it was, but could not see any details, so she went to go get her binoculars. We shared the 2 pairs, and got to see a lot more. Then, miraculously, we were looking at the same spot at the same time & saw a shooting star. We both screamed, “Did you see that?” and hugged each other. What I didn’t tell her, or anyone else until now, is that I wished on the shooting star. I saw 3-4 other shooting stars that night & wished on them as well. I wished for a new kidney for my dad. Every time. Now I’m not saying it had anything to do with him getting the call for the transplant, but you just never know. 
And now this week is the fallout. I almost wish I wasn’t at work b/c everything else seems so…insignificant compared to this. It’s hard to describe.
I do know one thing though. If I have to get one, I want to be transplanted @ Madison, NOT Froedtert. So at least I’ve got that going for me.
I will post tomorrow night about the appt tomorrow. Hope everyone else is having a great weekend!! xoxox
Posted by suchaprettyface on November 11th, 2007 under inside out, transplantPages
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