Haven't posted in a while, so I thought I would just share what I've been up to lately. In all honesty, I don't really know what I'll post about while I wait for the call saying there is a heart available. I know this blog will be great to keep everyone up to date and posted about my recovery process and how I am doing after the surgery - but until then...I'll try to keep on top of it and post every once in a while.
I definitely have good days and bad days. There are days that I feel good, and start to wonder if we are jumping into all of this too soon, but then I have a day where I am exhausted after doing even the simplest tasks, or out of breath from even walking the shortest distances; and know that this is the right path to be on. I don't think I ever posted the results of my angiogram a couple weeks ago, but my doctors did find significantly more narrowing and closing off of the small vessels and arteries in my heart; so they did say that was reassurance to them that we are headed down the right path and that listing me was the right thing to do. Like I've said before, I could wait for a year or more for a heart to become available with my status and my medical history. They definitely wanted to get me listed before I became too sick, and we are praying that a heart becomes available before I feel much worse.
There have been more and more days recently where I haven't felt right, I've had more pain, and I am completely wiped out by the end of the day. I have noticed that my energy levels fluctuate each day. However, this weekend, on Saturday, I woke up and I was feeling okay. Not too tired and feeling pretty decent. Curtis and I decided to try to go golfing and see how I would do. Curtis has been golfing here and there forever, but just picked back up the game last summer and loves it. He started teaching me then and it is something that we love to do together. I'm sure the golfing days for me will start to become less and less while I wait, but I can always go along for the ride! ;) There is definitely no way I could walk the course and carry my clubs, but with the cart I seemed to do pretty well! I was so glad to be out and enjoying the beautiful day, but especially grateful that I was feeling good too.
Thank you again to everyone for keeping me in your thoughts and prayers. I can't wait for the day that I can bypass the cart, carry my clubs, walk the course, and feel great while doing it. There may be bad days, but there are still good days as well, and for that I am so grateful!
