tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5057076754604967997.post2469425021649507166..comments2023-06-01T04:11:49.091-04:00Comments on adventures of my kidney: will the real me please stand upElissa Steinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02004788697977182083noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5057076754604967997.post-72997170516660865792011-07-04T22:57:16.458-04:002011-07-04T22:57:16.458-04:00Oh my goodness, I am so glad that I found your blo...Oh my goodness, I am so glad that I found your blog. I too donated my left kidney to my best friend's father on June 9th. I have been living in my pajamas except for when I go for my daily walk. I love to run and the outdoors but I know that I have to listen to my body and be patient. What gets me through is knowing that the Lord used me to breath life into my kidney so that Daddy Chuck could live again. So we are all very blessed and this too shall pass. We will all look back on this in a few weeks or even months and know that we did exactly what we were called to do. I would do it all over again in a heart beat, or should I say Kidney beat!... The pains and the fatigue we are feeling will go away but I pray that our kidneys live on with our recipients... Thank you for sharing your ups and downs with us as it helps all of us going through the exact same thing....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5057076754604967997.post-70304169601655042682011-07-04T20:54:54.757-04:002011-07-04T20:54:54.757-04:00Oh my goodness, I am so glad that I found your blo...Oh my goodness, I am so glad that I found your blog. I too donated my left kidney to my best friend's father on June 9th. I have been living in my pajamas except for when I go for my daily walk. I love to run and the outdoors but I know that I have to listen to my body and be patient. What gets me through is knowing that the Lord used me to breath life into my kidney so that Daddy Chuck could live again. So we are all very blessed and this too shall pass. We will all look back on this in a few weeks or even months and know that we did exactly what we were called to do. I would do it all over again in a heart beat, or should I say Kidney beat!... The pains and the fatigue we are feeling will go away but I pray that our kidneys live on with our recipients... Thank you for sharing your ups and downs with us as it helps all of us going through the exact same thing....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5057076754604967997.post-38058148591999923062011-07-03T14:16:44.412-04:002011-07-03T14:16:44.412-04:00Ladies, thank you both so much. Sometimes it reall...Ladies, thank you both so much. Sometimes it really helps when I'm stuck in my own tiny little world to be reminded of the bigger picture. <br /><br />Karen, you made my day. And Lauren, yes we will wear pants again. One day . . . and the biggest of congratulations on what you did. You are a true hero. xoxoElissa Steinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02004788697977182083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5057076754604967997.post-83080597732650955532011-07-02T14:50:41.689-04:002011-07-02T14:50:41.689-04:00Hi Elissa;
I don't know you either (i only re...Hi Elissa;<br /><br />I don't know you either (i only recently found your blog) but I can relate 100%. I donated my left kidney (also to a stranger) on June 7th. I had a very similar inner meltdown about 20 minutes ago in the car on the way back from getting a long weekend coffee. I swear your words "is stunningly beautiful out and I'm afraid to do too much. Everyone's looking to me to make plans and I can't. I'm the loser with a holiday weekend and nothing to do" just came out of my mouth as I lamented how many things I'm not up to yet and all the things I'd like to do but know I shouldn't. I want to run. I want to go for a bike ride.I want to go for a hike in the mountains. And I want to not be afraid of my body-have control like you said. And I want to feels comfortable in something aside from yoga pants and the dresses you mentioned.<br /> I do however know that we'll look back at this and laugh or at least wonder what our problem was. We're what? -a few weeks post surgery and our jiggles and cabin fever are our biggest concerns? There are a lot of people out there feeling the same way and can't use organ donation as an excuse.<br />Hang in there...at least we have the whole summer ahead of us.Lauren Hhttp://tomakeachoice.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5057076754604967997.post-26136619109881038682011-07-02T08:50:23.379-04:002011-07-02T08:50:23.379-04:00How is this set of feelings/responses not the &quo...How is this set of feelings/responses not the "real you", beautiful Elissa? I don't know you outside of your writing - but *from* your writing I've come to know you as a quirky funny, brave-writing (honest), strong-living woman --<br /><br />and that's all here in this post! <br /><br />"...flat on my fat butt wallowing in timid" made me laugh, even while my heart went out to you. Openly sharing your struggle with the for-real limits post-surgery only makes it MORE obvious how courageous you are.<br /><br />Your last words in this post are: "And it's not pretty." - Maybe not "pretty", which is about surface, exterior, superficial - but oh, so BEAUTIFUL (which is a #@*!-load better, in my book!).Square-Peg Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11517814281600079549noreply@blogger.com