Today I had my scheduled left heart cath, which was to determine what type of surgery I would be having on October 20. I already had a right heart cath, so we finished out the other side of the heart today. Dan and I drove down to Ann Arbor last night, due to the early…
As you could maybe tell from some of my blog posts, my health has been fluctuating quite a bit, leaving the doctors and therefore myself, wondering if I would make it to November 30. After many ups and downs with my health over the past couple of weeks, it was determined I would need surgery…
I have thought long and hard about how to say what I want to say, but sometimes the best way to say something is just to say it. What I’m talking about is how to describe what it is like to go through a difficult situation. The reason I say “difficult situation,” I know it’s…
We are feeling as if the weeks are flying by, but I think it’s because we are forced to live day by day. With an impending major surgery on the horizon, we are trying to capitalize on everything, such as time to do projects, the nice weather to do things as a family, and time…
When meeting with the surgeon last week, he told me that I could live a normal life again. A normal life. When he said that, I started to tear up, but in reality, I had no idea what I was tearing up about because truthfully speaking, I have never known normal. And who has? What…
This year has had us on our toes, but even more so, on our knees. It really should have come as no shock when we learned that my heart had taken a decline this year. After learning that heart surgery was imminent, it brought some relief, knowing that the waiting period was ending. Since I…
