For those of you who just finished watching NY Med, thanks. Thank you from the CF community, for being part of our never-ending awareness movement. Thank you from the transplant community for caring enough to tune in and to (hopefully) do your part by spreading the word about organ donation and the many beautiful lives it saves each year. And, of course, thank you from our small group of CF/transplantee friends (myself, Katy, Kristy, Allison, Kelley, and Jerry) for letting our amazing "cyster" Lyndsey into your lives for the past hour. I promise you that the best is yet to come from that girl.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I don't normally like watching medical drama -- reality, fiction, or anything in between. For lack of a better way to describe it, medical stuff done to other people still gives me a pretty sever case of the heebie-jeebies. I hear doctors in Europe are working on a cure for those, but until they find one I think I'll just have to continue reading books right through "House"and "ER" and any of the many incarnations of "Grey's Anatomy." I made a good faith effort to watch the short-lived transplant (melo)drama "Three Rivers" while waiting for my lungs, but decided to quit after a woman awoke from her lung transplant in a quiet, peaceful hospital room with nary a vent nor overworked ICU nurse in sight. Something told me I wouldn't be lucky enough to emerge from my surgery with new lungs AND perfectly applied eyeshadow, so why even bother?
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