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This is a beautiful day!

Thanks to all of you for the great wishes, texts, and remembrances.

Sign me....

"Darn Glad To Be Here"

Evening of August 2, 2013

 Evening of August 2, 2014

My Frame of Mind.......................If I could frame my mind, where would I hang it?

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Today, a year ago, just about mid-day was when I got "the call." 

The number on my phone came up as UNKNOWN - that's how the tx center always shows up, but it couldn't have been more fitting as there was no way to have known what exactly lay ahead. It's been a heck of a year, time that I almost surely would not have had, an incredible experience, and isn't that what life is all about.....the experience?

Sorry about replaying all of this for you again but it is like a movie about a life that's like a movie that is just on continuous replay this weekend. Even the weather today mimics that of last August 1 to a tee.

Enjoy this beautiful day!

Triduum

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Ok, for those of you that know me close-up, you know that last year at this time things were kinda bleak. July was coming to an end and I hadn't had a prospective call from the tx center in like.......ohhhh a hundred years or so.

Unawares to me.......that began to change on this very day July 31st, 2013.

Today begins my forever-on own personal triduum.

At about 12:30 this afternoon, a year ago today, my donor lost his life and shared the one he had with me so that I could keep mine.




It is a beautiful morning here in South Central today, just as it was a year ago this morning. I can not even begin to tell you the thoughts, scenenarios, and emotions that are all part of the circus inside my head today.
It is all so very bittersweet. I am forever grateful.

This is the ever-constant thread that is running through my thoughts for the next few days.

If you get a chance about mid-day today, give a pause, a smile, a prayer, or a shout-out to my donor.
I know I will.

Thanks so much.