Friday, December 26, 2008

No Exaggeration

Today was something to behold. I have not seen Mark in such good spirits in years. He looks 5 years younger than he did in the beginning of December. He's smiled more today than in the previous year altogether.

What's it mean when your worst discomfort is the damned Foley? It means that a new kidney makes someone who's suffering from end stage renal disease feel brand new; that's what it means. Sure, they're nuking his immune system with about three different therapies and infusing insane amounts of prednisone into his system, however just having a working kidney makes him feel very alive and well. And he's very happy.

I spent about six hours just hanging out with him today. We walked the floor a few times and had supper together. And we just sat and marvelled about the fact that a bit of Mr. Darling is sitting inside of Mark's abdomen. Would we have ever even imagined something like this a year ago? I can hardly believe it's real and I've seen their incisions!

Again, my heart goes out to Shark. What a generous and great buddy. I always used to say he'd give you the shirt off his back. I guess I gotta amend that.







Shark and me (Spring 1992)

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great news on all fronts!

Thats the Monica Carmody I interviewed back in 1992, then that Monica Beadles chick showed up to work creating all kinds of confusion.

Alyssa said...

That is just such great news!! I'm SO happy for the both of you!!!

Lizard Queen said...

That is absolutely awesome! Glad to hear everything is going so well. :)

GinaBee said...

I'm just glad everyone's feeling better!

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