{"id":35,"date":"2012-07-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cota1.wpengine.com\/cotaforlaram\/2012\/07\/20\/life-on-hold\/"},"modified":"2012-07-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T00:00:00","slug":"life-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforlaram\/2012\/07\/20\/life-on-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"Life on Hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone,<\/p>\n<p>Well, the last time I wrote, the medical world was dominating my life. Since then, I have spent time trying to balance that world with regular life.<\/p>\n<p>I got past the infection of February\/March. From then, I spent my time concentrating on working in the day and resting in the evenings, so I can keep doing the things I love in life; namely, spend time with family and work at my job. Long term projects (ie: stage managing) had to be put aside. Concentrating on holding my job and keeping healthy doing it was taking almost all my energy.&nbsp; So the next goal was to get stabilized enough to be able to work the Great Plains Theatre Conference. Between persistence and my stubborn attitude, I was able to reach this goal. Work is going wonderfully, family is doing well, and working the conference turned out to be totally awesome.<\/p>\n<p>So now where are things? Well, my last appointment was interesting. My lung functions were a crummy 28%. But that is my &#8220;new norm&#8221;; so my doctor and I didn&#8217;t even hardly discuss numbers. Nothing to discuss I guess &#8211; they are what they are; nothing we can do to change them.<\/p>\n<p>And we wait for Denver to call. Having the patience for this phone call is getting to be challenging. You all know, I want to get the call, and to get my new lungs, and get it all over with&#8230;I am ready, more than ever, to &#8220;move on&#8221; with my life. I have been thinking about my post-transplant bucket list. I have SO MUCH I want to do! This list includes getting back to stage managing and directing shows, as well as travel and seeing things I haven&#8217;t seen yet.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, knowing that other people have their lives on hold too, is frustrating. From Craig, to my folks, to co-workers; and everyone in between. Everyone has dedicated so much time and energy so far, into something that we don&#8217;t know will ever happen or not. But&#8230;I gotta believe&#8230;soon&#8230;sometime soon.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone, Well, the last time I wrote, the medical world was dominating my life. Since then, I have spent time trying to balance that world with regular life. I got past the infection of February\/March. From then, I spent my time concentrating on working in the day and resting in the evenings, so I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforlaram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforlaram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforlaram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforlaram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforlaram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforlaram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}