Fast forward to today. I feel great. Sure I have a few bad gashes on my legs ( healing). I get tired easily. I often can't sleep well ( damn steroids). But I am so grateful to feel healthy, normal, and full of optimism and brio. For this I am thankful for terrific medical care, a perfectly matched donor, and an amazingly wonderful family and group of friends.
It isn't as if in the past I was churlish and ungrateful. At least I don't think I was. But there is nothing like facing death to make you feel really truly grateful. Amazingly there was only one time that I thought I wasn't going to make it. I was lying in my bed at City of Hope drifiting in and out of consciousness and thought " I wonder of I am going to pull through". Immediately another voice popped in and said "Don't be ridiculous. You have worked way too hard to give up now"!
So a huge thank you to you all for the care, love and concern you have shown me in the past three years. I wish you all a wonderful Thanksgiving and feel truly blessed to have you in my life. Xxo
Nora and Úna early in the morning
Eoin w/ Úna on her first birthday
At Jutta and Greg's wedding
