Showing off my staples after drainage tubes came out... please don't mistake post-op picture for nudity... this is reality. Feb 13th- So we left off with me being ALIVE!! Little did I know there was lots of hard work left. After all the tests the sedation was starting to wear off and the exhaustion started to take over. Coming back off the Vent was way harder than I thought. It felt like the second the drugs wore off, my new lungs had to keep up with running a marathon that

(Fresh Out of 8 hr surgery with brand new lungs!!) It has almost been 6 weeks and I feel like this is the right time to share my experience since transplant before details begin to get lost. Prograf brain is a real thing so short term memory isn't the greatest but thankfully my mother and Johnny was taking notes while i was in and out. Feb 10th 2018- The call came in around 6:00AM- Johnny picked up the call because i was still passed out. Quickly ran the phone to me