Author: Stacey
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Grateful for a Good Hospital Visit
In Thanksgiving spirit today, the first thing that popped into my mind was that I was grateful that the kindness and skill of the Stanford Interventional Radiology staff. It made today one of my best hospital experiences yet. I’m dozing after spending the day at the hospital for another procedure to replace the jejunal feeding…
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My 11-year Lungaversary today: November 22, 2015
Today is my lungaversary… I have survived 11 years! There have been some dark times in the past 2 years, but knowing there is a chance for a better life through a second transplant lifted my hope! It is the light at the end of the tunnel. To focus on the light is the only…
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Stacey’s Climbathon Dec 2007
I would like to share my own experience of being involved in this year’s climbathon in December 2007. It was really nice to see how people in the community come’s together by word of mouth, through friend of a friend. It’s amazing how?numbers can double. The positive energy resonate in the rock climbing community.’It was…
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Recent news
A lot has happened in the last month…some sad, some glad! Some of the sad news is that my friend Gwen passed away; she had a transplant one month after me. She was a loving, affectionate young person and we will all miss her. She suffered a lot all through her life, but I am…
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Social Times
The past couple months I have had some nice times with friends. On March 1st, I helped organize a?birthday party for Cindy Chiu. Cindy is one of my best friends; she was the caregiver/friend organizer while I was on the waiting list for a lung transplant two and a half years ago. Back then, I…
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Spinach Explosion
Hola, Tori! Thanks for the note from Panama. We continue to appreciate this website. As I write, I am covered with spinach from head to toe. I’m not dressing up in costume for some nutrition educational event… no, it was a case of being quite unfamiliar with the vita-max food processor in the new kitchen!…
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Health update
Greetings to my long-lost readers! I am sorry for not posting in a while. I thought I’d better get on the ball when my mother said, “Now I only check your website every two weeks, and I’m your mother!” In December and January, I was diagnosed and treated for acute rejection. By mid-February, it was…
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A sheclimbs potluck
Hey Mary, Thanks for your note and coming to the Winter sheclimbs video potluck on Friday! Ten sheclimbers gathered at Martha’s apartment and we had a great time watching Lisa Rands, one of the world’s top boulderers, in her video, “Hit List.” Then we dove into the home-cooked food: two chicken pastas, salad, spicy chicken…
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Acute Rejection
A lot has happened over the winter vacation, including receiving the 2nd year annual check-up results. The good news is that I had a wonderful, relaxing vacation with my mother for the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. She came to visit me from Florida, and we had a delicious meal of stuffed chicken, green beans,…
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December Update
Tori, thanks for posting the pictures and keeping the website going. Felix, I hope you are surviving the snow in Colorado! Thanksgiving in Seattle was fun and interesting. I saw Angie, and we spent the first day browsing Pike’s Peak Market. There were a lot of tourists, different types of food, bright flowers, and fish…