Every year I anticipate with dread what follows Valentine’s Day in February – my yearly liver clinic appointment. After twenty years, I still get sick to my stomach when I walk in the transplant clinic waiting room. As if I am Cinderella and this year midnight has arrived, transforming me back into the very ill [...]
I’ve watched my share of Oprah. Most of the time when she’s talking about important issues I find her to be sensitive, non-judgemental and an inquirer of interesting questions. But when I heard her ask a guest if things had gone back to normal after her time of hardship, I was disappointed. When I was [...]
As I’ve become more aware of my current medical condition and history, I’ve also become more aware of how much I really owe a lot of people in my life. One of these people is the doctor who performed my liver transplant. Before, and for a time after the transplant, he was my liver doctor. [...]
It has been a nasty couple of weeks for me. If I had to pinpoint when things started to go downhill, I’d say it began with my genetic metabolic appointment. I’ve seen an x-ray of my heart once before. One time I went to the ER because I was having trouble breathing and they did [...]
Let’s face it, February is not the most pleasant month of the year. Twenty-eight or twenty-nine days of dark, cold weather does not lift the spirits and is capped off by the celebration of a holiday for lovers, leaving those who have no such significant other to feel lonely and depressed. Personally speaking, February and [...]
