wow it's been a while huh? i have a good job @ zimmer+rohde. its a company that sells way expencive fabric to the trade only. i'm at work now and prolly should be working! haha. I got blood results a few weeks ago and I am as healthy as I ever have been! my creatine level is 1.03 the lowest it's ever been!!!!! YAY!! i feel really good. i've been consistantly working out adn it really makes a difference! i make smoothies almost every morning of berries/low fat yogurt/and juice and it has helped me to really be focused. when i don't have it or i don't work out i feel like shit i have to say! i feel really good that i've also really made a commitment and am doing it!



I have to take calcium pills now. my medication strips my body of it. not good! its so strange to me that you take a prescription drug that is supposed to help you but the side effects sometimes are un-fucking-believeable. the meds i'm on that i have to tkae fo rthe rest of my life have a side effect of INCREASED SKIN CANCER /OVARIAN CANCER/INSOMNIA/ACNE

WTF!!!! that is justs nuts to me.



i really try to not focus on these things. i try to enjoy what ihave now. its important to me to really focus on the good ihave from this all. i've never been sad or negative about getting sick. IT HAPPENED FOR A REASON.



i have to clean my damn closet again. i don't understand how it continues to get soo damn messy! i wear the same fucking clothes all the time!!! grrrrrr ahahahhaha i have a cake this weekend. i'll see if i can post it on here. that would be cool. i really want to try to write on here. not that anyone right now knows about me having this...not that anyone might actually be interested in my life but...you never know!

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so this is my blog that will be about life as seen through my kidney. I had a kidney transplant June 11, 2004. 3 years ago. My dad gave me his. it was an interesting experience. i remember going to the hospital early that morning, and not being nervous at all. i was pretty calm. but i was crying when my dad said bye and was on the way to the operating room. that was scary. b/c what if something had gone wrong? it was all b/c of me!! i would have never been able to live with myself. even though i know he chose to do it himself and that in his eyes there wasn't another way. he HAD to do it. i am forever grateful for him doing that. giving my dad a CD on fathers day seems so stupid now. but how do you say thanks? Thanks for saving my life...thanks for giving me life...AGAIN!



Tonia and Maryellen (sisters) named my kidney. the first Christmas after my transplant i get this card in the mail addressed to AMANDREW. my dad called me up and was like...ummm i don't know if this is for you or for me...you see my dads name is Andrew and i'm Amanda. apparently Maryellen and Tonia decided to smoosh them together and there it was. Amandrew. my dad says it gay b/c its a boy kidney and b/c i like boys, that makes amandrew gay. i love his humor. but then again everything is gay in my dads eyes. haha!