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Holidays: Celebration or Challenge for Transplant Families
Transplants | Last Active: Dec 27, 2024 | Replies (60)Comment receiving replies
@ajdo129, This is a fantastic list of solutions when spending a holiday alone! I plan to bookmark it as a reference for future holidays or special 'alone' days to share with some of my friends as we look for ideas to spend special quiet times together!
I had to smile as I read #5. "My favorite part of my childhood Christmas was the stocking...! We have a delayed Christmas at our home this year, (planned before the storm) and when talking to our 9 year old granddaughter on the phone, her biggest concern about a post-Christmas Family Christmas at our house was, "But grandma, What about my stocking? "I assured her that her stocking would be here waiting for her. Her sigh of relief was priceless!
Barbara, How was your day?
Hi, @jackie421blfdgurl! Happy Healthy Holidays and New Year to you, too. I think this current artic blast has been a challenge to everybody this holiday season. Hope you are warm and able to stay indoors and not travel. Our day was quiet, with our family event planned for January. A happy surprise was that one of our sons announced late Christmas morning that the roads were clear from his home to ours and that he would come for the afternoon!
Jackie, What are your plans for New Year's Eve?
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Hi Rosemary. I am very happy that my creative solutions for holidays alone will help others.
The week of Christmas brought a scare when Mayo asked for an immediate biopsy for Monday the 19th. The blood draw results from the previous week's blood draw had spiked liver enzymes and Mayo was concerned about liver rejection. Happily the biopsy report said the results were "unremarkable". The doctors used to call me "an anomaly" and now I am proud to say that I am "unremarkable"!
So I entered Christmas with renewed hope to see my next visit at Mayo on my 1st anniversary of my April 20th transplant.
Breakfast was with a friend and her daughter as I mentioned in my last post. To my delight, my neighbor invited me to dinner to meet many of the original community members who have lived here 20 or more years. I who have lived here less than 3 years was honored to meet them all.
I was gifted so many sweets and homemade goodies that I fear the results of this morning's blood draw and hope that Mayo takes holiday feasting into account when reading the results.
Thank you for keeping communication flowing. I wish you a happy and healthy new year. Barbara
Rosemary, happiness and joy to you this New Year. And a healthy one too. Stay warm and comfy with your son. Blessings, BB
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Well I can tell you it won't be in Paris!!!!!!
It was so cold here xmas eve 5 degrees I could not bring myself to go to midnight mass .so I ventured out the nx day which was 23...hard time during that weekend to get my little doggie out for his business..he put his face out the door and ran back inside.......wishing u all a wonderful healthy..
Happy...sexy ..no trama new year ....💕💕