Jeremy’s recovery is coming along beautifully. Every day he looks and feels better. I swear that each time I look at his scar it
looks different. He is getting stronger
too – just the other night he went and played tennis with a friend. And he even went back to work yesterday; and was
able to stay the whole day. So on the
recovery front, everything is progressing nicely.
It is does not feel quite the same on the home front. We have been home for 2 weeks now and we are
still feeling the effects of the transplant!
Leaving your house, life and job for a month has some long term
effects. And every day we seem to
discover a new one.
The house is not all together back to normal. There is a towering pile of mail (which
Jeremy started to tackle yesterday).
There was a load of laundry that sat in the dryer for a week. The yard needs tons of attention. Don’t even get me started on dusting and vacuuming
(because I wish it could be done on a daily basis but that is not realistic in
anyone’s life). And a full time jobs
worth of thank you notes, phone calls and emails to follow up on. It is basically life that has piled up and
yet to be sorted through.
Since this blog was our way of giving the realistic picture
of donating a kidney – this long term effect is a true reflection. Not only have we had to reenter our life and
get back into something called normal, but we have also had to evaluate what
our lives look like moving forward. This
week has been full of travel discussions.
My big 3-0 birthday is coming up in 2 months. This birthday has been talked about for some
time – big parties, exotic trips, lavish gifts, etc. But now those ideas have to be filtered
through reality and knowing that most of them can’t really happen. Jeremy is not in the position to take any
more time off of work. So trips are
out. Neither one of us has the energy,
time or money to plan a big party. So
now it is entering into changing our expectations…. This is never fun or easy,
but necessary in life.
The other travel talks have been about Peru. Both Jeremy and I feel called to minister in
Peru. This year Christ Fellowship has
set our dates for September 20th – 30th. In the past we have taken the trip in
June. So Jeremy and I have tossed the
idea around to still go in June and make two trips this year. Something we have always wanted to do. Going alone in June will give us more time to
focus on learning about the ministry in Pucallpa. When you are leading a large mission team,
there is little time to focus on anything besides the team members. So this will be a time for us as a couple to
dive into the ministry and culture of Pucallpa.
But again, what does that trip look like now that we have returned from
the transplant. The time and money issue
is front and center again.
All of these things are not meant to be complaints. But rather, recognition that with every major
decision you make in life, there are side effects and additional decisions to
make. Jeremy and I just went through a major
thing in our life. Probably one of the
biggest things we have done or will ever do.
Because of that we are faced with evaluating our life according to where
we now stand. We no longer see the
kidney donation as a big decision for one day, but a decision we continue to
make every day.
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