I don’t want to disappear without living the life I want to live…

[WCGreen]

This was a proclamation of life from Dr. Sweets, a character on the TV Show Bones. He made this declaration to his girlfriend shortly after watching a young man die in his arms.

Break...

Before I gave up the bottle, at the very end of the line when my worst shakes and the morning sickness took over, when I could not make it to work without grabbing a few shots on the way in at one of those special early morning bars open just for guys like me. When it was all I could do to make it to my lunch bracer of a couple of shots of well whiskey and two short beers, I signed up to take the LSAT.

Yea, I was going to go to law school. I always wanted to be a lawyer and I thought if I had that goal, if I had something to strive toward, I would be able to stop drinking.


My latest post on my Lung Transplant Blog...


http://mylungtransplantyears.wordpress.com/about/

[In_The_Wind]

1. What do you really want to do now?

[WCGreen]

2. Survive the operation...

[In_The_Wind]

3. I think you'll get what you want!

Then what?

How long is the recovery process?

[WCGreen]

4. Basically for ever...

You are never not at risk from organ rejection.

[In_The_Wind]

5. Silly

I know that!

But ... how long before you'll be driving yourself around town?

[WCGreen]

6. Six to ten weeks....

[In_The_Wind]

7. Way cool!

I know you won't be up to having company visit you and you've got to avoid infection but it'll be great for you to move about with toting around oxygen tanks like you needed to do in the past.

[WCGreen]

8. For sure, those tanks are trouble...

[In_The_Wind]

9. Makes flyin' a bitch ...

not to mention totally impossible.

[WCGreen]

10. Yea, got that right...