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