June 17

June 15th marked the three-month date since Lily received her heart.  This milestone allows her to be out in public settings and was celebrated by seeing Aladdin at the Denver Performance of Arts.  Slowly life is getting “normal”, but it’s a far cry from where we started roughly a year ago.

Lily’s lab work is consistent and she’s starting to come off some of her medications.  The other day she came off a lung pressure medication and so far, her body is dealing well with it.  She’s a champ at taking her medication and progressed to swallowing clumps of pills instead of painstakingly one at a time. Her sleep is still a struggle but apparently, it’s a post-transplant thing.  There’s still quite a bit of PTSD and we’re working on that.

We adopted a kitten a couple weeks ago, she’s a cute little thing.  The girls just want to tote her around like a doll so I’m trying to instill proper etiquette with them; they’re slow learners thus far. That’s all I have for now, thank you everyone for following and supporting us in this journey.

Lily Palan

Arvada, CO

Transplant Type: Heart

Transplant Status: Transplanted

Goal: $75,000.00

Raised: $41,631 of $75,000 goal

Raised by 116 contributors

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