breathing and butter

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Liz Taylor...

r.i.p liz taylor. i thank her for always protecting someone i cared deeply for. that loyalty and friendship gives me the chills. a true legend.

This song has always really touched me:

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Here is a little kitchen tip for all of you. Never pour pasta sauce of any kind over the pasta. Instead make it (or reheat it) in a skillet and toss freshly cooked pasta into it. Take tongs and take the pasta out of the water it boiled in and toss it i the skillet and let it cook for about one minute while you do this. This just increases the flavor and makes it more yummy!

Monday, March 21, 2011

Transplant Bag

When you are listed for a transplant you need to be ready to go at any moment, almost like having a baby, so you need to have a bag packed and ready to go because you can't waste any time packing a bag! I have packed my bag and it's interesting how different my first transplant bag is from my bag this time around. The first time I'm not even truly sure I had a bag! It might have just been my mom that had a bag! By the time I was listed and instructed I was dying, so it didn't really matter (this time has been drastically different) so this time I have packed a bag, and it includes: sweatpants, zip up sweatshirts, a toothbrush, toothpaste, face wipes, dry shampoo, a plug for my phone/ipad, flipcam, shorts, and underwear. These are all things that I did not have the first time around (well, I had a toothbrush they gave me) but they are things I could have used after a week when I was able to sort of get up on my own, and the gowns that were 4XL were falling off me, and I had no underwear (the whole transplant staff has seem things they shouldn't have ever seen on me!) and my hair was practically it's own entity, and I could have used some lip gloss. But you know, I may never even use any of these things the entire time, it really just depends how fast I bounce back and when I start to be weaned off of drugs. I mean when you have a morphine drip going you'll be completely naked in front of a room full of people and think everything is right in the world....because you are drugged up and breathing!