It would require way too many words to explain this week, so I’ll just try to give the highlights so as to update people on our progress…and lack there of. 1. Holy cow. You guys are amazing. We now have almost $10,000 in Mike’s medical trust fund after just two weeks of fundraising. That’s enough… Continue reading Good news, Bad news
I’ll never forget the day that the nephrologist told me Mike’s diagnosis in the hospital. I knew absolutely nothing about kidney disease. Being the realist that I am, I asked her to tell me the worst case scenario. She said, The worst case scenario is that you can’t afford the care that he needs. This… Continue reading From the Bottom of Our Hearts
After six long weeks of waiting, we finally got the call that Mike had been accepted into the transplant program at Florida Hospital today. There’s nothing more emotionally confusing than being excited about a transplant. I really hate that the next several months are going to be filled with trips to the hospital and a… Continue reading The Road to Transplant
There was just no way to make this post any shorter. I tried. So if you’re at all interested, you might want to grab some coffee and settle in for a few minutes. There was a time in my life when I didn’t know what a nephrologist was. When I couldn’t have told you the… Continue reading One Year of CKD
That sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach kept showing up again. The same one always returns when there’s anything regarding Mike’s health coming up. We have to go see his specialist every three to four months. The problem with this interval is that just about the time you start to feel normal again… Continue reading Perspective
To say that the weeks since Lincoln was born have been crazy would pretty much be the understatement of my life. I was expecting to feel exhausted after having a newborn. I was expecting to have to make some major adjustments because of our new family member. What I was not expecting was to be… Continue reading Feeling a little like Job
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