On our flight back from the last book tour stop in Spokane, Phillip and I made an exhaustive list of things we wanted to get done before the transplant. It is unique that we will both be in surgery, and we wanted to have our home and lives a well…
October 1st Will be a Very Special Day Indeed
My kidney transplant date is set and it is just a little more than a week away on October 1st! My donor? Well, that is my gorgeous, generous, loving, amazing husband Phillip! And now I’m crying… I am a huge puddle of gratitude for the way all of this is…
Top 25 Vegan Dinners
Everyone has their go-to meals and it’s no different for this vegan. I love menu planning and grocery shopping. It’s all about finding new recipes and ingredients to play with in the kitchen. However, every night can’t be an experiment. I also have my trusty dinners that perform week in…
Chronic Illness and Scaling Back
The time came last week for me to begin temporarily scaling back. This is the most important thing you can do to preserve and honor your health when you’re hitting a rough patch or going through a flare-up. This is also the hardest thing for driven, goal oriented individuals like…
8 Reasons to Participate in Clinical Trials
Participating in a clinical trial can be intimidating. There are certainly lots of things to consider based on what it being tested. That said, you can also participate in making history. During September of 2011, I traveled to the National Institute of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland to participate in…
Choosing Surrender
I met a woman a few months ago who’d had knee replacement surgery. She said that she tried everything under the sun to avoid surgery – all of the woo-woo and not-so-woo-woo stuff. She finally relented to the operation when she could not longer walk. Before she spoke they showed…