A mother's wisdom
Setting up my stream background My mom said she was proud of me today. It’s June 4th and exactly a year ago, I was in the hospital. It was when I was there because I was coughing up blood from my lungs, but the doctors didn’t seem to care about that much. They were more concerned with my slow 40bpm heart rate. This was where they told me I needed a heart/lung transplant and I knew I was in for a ride. This is an intense thing to hear, but I knew since 2008 that a heart/lung transplant would be the end game treatment of my pulmonary hypertension with ventral defect (extremely high lung pressure paired with a hole in my heart). So even though this is a life changing event, I have had a lot of time to process this. When I heard this from the doctor explaining this all to me, I was of course shocked (I didn’t think it would be NOW), but it was short lived. I very ...
