The life and times of a liver transplant family.
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Just talking about Natalie getting her First Communion makes
this big lump form in the back of my throat.
I start choking back tears. I
tried to have an actual conversation with real people about it (choir director,
Mary and awesome Priest, Fr. Barch) and had to start waiving my face, as if to
ac
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My baby sister was born with Transposition of the Great Vessels. She lived 7 days. I was 4 years old; I would turn 5 years old in a month. My first memory: I was walking around the back of our house to our cement patio with my grandmother. I was a kindergartener. But my mom missed it. She ha
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Dear Love,* I know that I don’t need to tell you the first part of this letter, but it’s for posterity’s sake. Translation, Natalie adores hearing about how her parent’s lives entwined and she came to be. I know that this love letter will bug a part of you…given the fact that you have zero interes
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She swims. She never gives up. She grins from ear to ear, her eyes twinkling under her pink goggles as she exits the pool. She knows she rocked it. She knows that she swam her best. She's just pumped about finishing. It was tough, but she did it. And she is beaming.No she wasn’t in first place
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1. I like lists. 2. I also like to swear. I try to keep it clean because this is Natalie’s page. I am writing about her medical miracles, tribulations, and all the assorted bullshit that comes along with having to grow up too much too fast, to help her remember it later on. 3. Th
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Reprinted from a past entry:7 years ago on Ash Wednesday I was laying on an operating room table, giving my daughter a second chance at life with a new liver. Jesus came into my life, like never before at that moment, and I've never been the same. I've said time and time again how because of Natalie
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This is a really hard week for me, PTSD loves to rear up and kick me in the behind this week. Actually the whole month of February causes fits of tears welling up in my eyes and me choking them down. They are those kinds of fits where I remind myself to knock it off, because I am incredibly lucky.
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I am talking about these tonight at Religious Education:THE EIGHT BEATITUDES OF JESUS "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they wh
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