It’s a chance for you to make a fresh start – Mon Mothma,Rouge One

I feel like now is a good time to update everyone on how I am doing. It has been one month since I received these new, amazing lungs. I am working on a post with my thoughts about everything that has happened since I got the call but it is taking a long time to get all my thoughts out. For now I will just update you on how things have gone since I got home.

I have been getting better and better everyday. I have had good days and bad days but the progress I have made has been very encouraging. The stiches from the chest tubes are out and those are healing nicely. I have a large incision across my chest and it feels like someone broke my sternum, but since they did I suppose it feels about right. There is some pain but it is lessening everyday. My new best friend is Tylenol and that makes me happy because the harder pain meds I was on were causing me to hallucinate strange things.

I now take lots and lots of pills. About 50 we counted the other day. Half are to help offset the side effects of the other half (well maybe not quite) and taking 50 pills a day is an ordeal but I am no longer on oxygen that is something to be amazed by. I am only a month and 2 days from lying on the ground sucking on 15 liters trying to live after a particularly bad experience in the shower.

I am free of tubes, IVs, breathing treatments (almost), and oxygen. It is all quite amazing. I still have a ways to go before I will be back to my self again. I will always be more susceptible to germs and so will be more careful about what I do and who I can be around (no sickies). But other than that I am looking forward to continuing on with my life and watching this wonderful little boy grow up.