My Doctor Update.

Today I had an appointment and the doctor told me that my Liver Enzymes had tripled in amount and all my other blood work had doubled. He told me he thinks I could be going through rejection, he didn't have my prograf results back yet so he proceeded to tell me that he would either call me this afternoon or tomorrow to let me know how my prograf level is. If the level is normal then he will have to schedule me a biopsy and if this level is high or changed any then we will have to up it. So we are hoping it will be up. He said the way it looked I could be in rejection. I say I will deal with that when it happens. I will do whatever it takes to keep living. So far God has blessed me with a new Liver and blessed me with good health and whatever the outcome is it will be Gods will and I will conquer it with all my being. As far as how I feel I am feeling tired but that isn't going to stop me I am going to keep on keeping on.

I have to go back next week and give blood again and I have an appointmend on Oct. 14.
I would like for you all to know I am having a Celebrating Life Banquet for me at Sylvan Springs Church on Oct. 10 at 6:00. There should be no gifts it all about being alive and enjoying life. Most readers are my normal readers but if there are friends who read this and want to come please let me know and I will be so excited.
I am so lucky to be where I am today. I am happy, to be here. I wake up and see sunshine not clouds, see work as a blessing not as a headache, see housework as a wonderful chore not a job well this may be pushing it alittle bit but really I thank God everyday for my life.

God has blessed me and I know he will always bless me. Yes I get nervous but I know God is by my side during all my trials. I will keep a great attitude and continue to pray to God each and every morning and night.

I am so proud of my family. My husband works every day to provide for us and barely complains (about his job). God has blessed me with 2 great children and I am so thankful they have a huge future ahead of them.

Everyone have a great evening and great day tomorrow. Love Mary

About Time for a new post !

I have wonderful news my sister called me yesterday and told me she is pregnant. We are so excited and happy to have a new baby in the family. She is so excited, the baby will be due in June and I am glad because I am off in the summer and can help her with the babies Aidyn and new baby.

As others already know Alex left for Freed in Henderson and he is so happy there. I really miss him but I know he is going to be a strong leader for Christ. He has met several friends which I knew he would have no trouble doing. Moving him in was hard but I handled it really well, yes, I cried but not to bad. I cried when I got home and his room was empty but i got over it.

We had a great Labor Day we all went over to David and Susans house and had lots of food as usual. It is always a blessing to go to David and Susans because family is very important and there is lots of laughs, smiles, and when we leave we are very full and you would think you wouldn't eat for two days but we all know that isn't so.

The summer went by to fast. I had a great summer I went to the beach with David and Susan and of course they made everything fun and the food was wonderful. I crabbed and it was sad because I guess I didn't realize they cooked them alive and it was tramatic to me I will never crab again.haha.

Went to camp and had a good time. I love the fellowship we have working in the kitchen it is a lot of work but it is worth it.

Started school and it didn't start so well, I kept saying I was going to get perfect attendance and on the second day of school I was taken off in an ambulance with a fever of 103 and all my stats were off. Well, I was put in and stayed in for 7 days I had a bacteria called Klebsiella how I got it who knows? Needless to say I will not say I am going to get perfect attendance again.

I will update soon. Love Mary

Alex went to Freed this weekend

When Alex got home and we were talking he said it was weird going to Wal-mart and not having to tell anyone, and I got to thinking about that and decided that would have to be strange because all of your life you have had to tell us where you were at and when you were leaving to come home and now you have no one to answer to. I was worried to death about him but I will say I did make it ok while he was gone. This will be a tough transition for me, letting go and it is not an easy thing to do for me.

I am very proud of him and want him to have a great time while oft to college. And that is what we have children for to raise them and send them off to college and hope the best for them. Alex will be a strong christian leader and will lead lots of others to Christ.

I will have the most adjusting to do.
A. I will have to get use to Alex not being at home at night in his bed, because I like my children being in their own beds at night.
B. I like knowing where they are and when they arrive and when they leave. O.K. yall this is not going overboard.
C. I like seeing Alex everyday!!!!!
D. I can't believe Alex said he was only coming home once a month.lololol
E. Saddened to know I can clean and paint his room when he leaves. NO MORE AUBURN ROOM!!
F. Jasmine has claimed his room closet, she says she needs more room yea right.

guess I will go for now Have a great week. Mary

Alex's 18th Birthday

I will have to first start off by saying how proud of Alex I am. He is a joy to have as a son and he can just about always make me laugh. It is so hard to believe how fast time flies by it just seems like yesterday that I was thinking "Man Alex has a long way to go till he turns 13, 16 and now he is 18 years old, you parents please take and enjoy each day because before you know it your child will be graduating,and off to college. I am not going to take Alex leaving to colleg easy, it makes me so sad to think that I am not going to see him everyday, to think Alex is not going to be in his own bed at night. My children have always been at home at night, those of you who have been through this may can help me adjust because I am not adjusting very easy.

I am proud that Alex want to go to Freed and his mission is to become a minister. From watching Alex through the years he will make the best preacher because he really cares and feels from the heart everything he says, he really wants to help people learn how to become a Christian and live a great wonderful life in the Lord. When Alex and us went to Ragland and I watched him get up there and teach the class, and lead singing and do the preaching it brought tears to my eyes because I realized that my son is a dedicated man of God and this is what he is best at, and he wants to lead people to God, and nothing will stop him.

Oh and I want you all to know Alex needs a job keep your eyes and ears open. Tennis is almost over and he will definitely need to work for the summer. He don't think so though but reality is time to grow up and start working. hahahahaa

All I want to say is I Love You Alex and I will always be here for you. Love Mom!!!

Heres and Exciting Post Dr.Visit.

Well, today was great. My visit was wonderful all my blood work but Prograf (I never expect it to be right) was good. He lowered my Prograf and hopefully that will stop the shaking. It is strange he suggested me to try Hypnopsis I know I didn't spell it right for my itching, he wanted to try that before he did anything else, I feel some what funny about that, even though David did suggest it before my surgery and I just never did do it, what do yall think of this idea should I or should I not. He said I don't have to come to the Dr. but every 2 months and give blood once a month WoW look how far I have come in just almost 5 months. God has held my hand through this whole process without him I just couldn't have came this far without him. I am so thankful to be a Christian and part of such a great family. Thanks everyone.

Some pictures of them waiting in the waiting room during my surgery

I will have to say I am the luckiest person in the world to have such great family and church family. I am so proud of my church family,for those who don't know they called Tameka over to them and took her in as family and stayed by her side while her daughter was having her Liver Transplant. I am the luckiest person in the world to be a part of this family at "SYLVAN SPRINGS CHURCH OF CHRIST"
I know this is a late post but hey better late than never. This is a great post!!!!



This is a funny picture because Alex met her at the elevator and wheeled her in because she had her foot surgery that Friday and she just had to come up to the waiting room to be with everyone.



This is funny Aidyn never has anything to do with anyone, but he loved Addi and as you can see Addi liked trying to hold him.




This is a waiting room picture, can you believe all the people? If you will look closely by Mia you will see Tameka the baby's mom and you will also see the red wagon behind them that is what she came here with, she is trying to hide in this picture.




In this picture you can see Tameka a little bit but not much.





This is a great picture of Katie and Mia. These are two beautiful people, I love them so much they are so special to me.



Look at Hannah and Daniel their smiles tell it all, they are beautiful.lol Hannah survived the waiting room during my surgery.


Now Phyllis looks like she is just so happy and having a great time.



NOw just take a look at Susan and you just can't be sad here, she is in the waiting room and waiting on me to get out of surgery and is as happy as can be.



My hubby was worried to death in this picture I am sure he is texting everyone he knows to tell them I am in surgery.




This is my best friend and her husband look at the look on her face she looks worried to death. She is the sweetest friend she has been happy and sad with me through this year it was rough for the both of us.

This blog is dedicated to my mom!!!!

Hello everyone, my mom has been gone for three years today, I would like to say this was a very sad day for me. Susan couldn't have said it any better, I long to hold her one more time, To just see her beautiful face and the memorable smile she shared with everyone. You know every day wasn't a sad day while she was in the hospital I can remember sitting at her bedside and her looking at me and she just started rubbing my hair and saying "how pretty it was" no matter how sick she was she always said something nice and I am sure my hair was a mess.

My mom was always thinking of others the day she went to the doctor in Oct. I had taken off to go with her and she called me and said they changed her apt. I said "Ok I will just go to work" needless to say they didn't change her apt. She knew she was going to get bad news and when she got there they told her she only had 4 months to live afterwards her and dad went to Avondale Park this is where they spent a lot of their days and dad said they hugged and cried and she asked him to promise not to tell us because she wanted life to be as normal as it can be, how selfless can this be. This was really hard on my dad to handle this news by himself but he granted her, her wish.

I remember when she came home Pam and I were giving her a bath and we heated everything, her bedsheets, her covers, every towel she had (no kidding) and we bathe her and when she got out we immediately started covering her with all the hot towels and she sat in that chair and said "I really like this, yall can do this all the time and she gave us a little smirk and that was enough satisfaction for us.

You know the feelings never change, the love never fades it just gets stronger in my heart, the yearning to be with her is very strong and I look forward to seeing her in heaven when it is my time to get there, there is never a day go by that I don't have a memory of her. There toward the end she started telling people that visited her that you were either on her prayer list or her love list where that came from I don't know but that is how she felt. I remember one night I was at their house and dad mom and I was outside and dad looked up and saw a bright star and he asked my mom to come over there with him at the steps and they stood there and made a wish. At night when I look up at the sky and see all the bright stars I think of that moment and say a prayer and thank God for all the wonderful memories I have and for giving me these memories and lots more.

Sorry this is a sad blog but I had to do something because my heart was aching and sometimes blogging makes me feel better.

A HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR MY DAUGHTER

It is so hard to believe that my only daughter is 19 today, where has time gone? It just seems like yesterday she was born, a helpless little girl who solely depended on her mom and dad for everything. From the time she was born she had a smile on her face and some things just don't change because still today she carries that beautiful smile every where she goes. When Jasmine decided it was time to walk there was no stopping her she was walking and running everywhere and still some things don't change she is still running and walking everywhere she never stops always on the go. I am so proud of her, she has been the daughter I have always prayed for and there is nothing I would change for her.

Jasmine is a wonderful christian, and dating a wonderful christian young man, from the time she could date she started out dating a christian and has stuck with that. Jasmine has been so grown for a while now she works, goes to school full time and still makes time for everyone else. She may get discouraged at times but she gets over it and goes on with life and the smile is back in no time. I hope to post some pictures later.

We love you Jasmine and Happy Birthday. We are proud of you in every way.

Wonderful Weekend

Hello everyone, I would like to tell those who read my blog about my weekend even though the ones that read my blog are the one pretty much doing the same things I did how funny is that but for those bloggers who are not with me often here is an update.

On Friday evening we had the honor to go to Paul's/others National Board Certification reception and it was so great. It is always nice to have family that cares and will support you. Family is so important because as I was sitting upstairs with all the others I got to looking and we had almost a whole isle filled with just family for Paul. Paul worked hard and we will probably never know how much effort he put into this but I know from watching him it was no easy task. So CONGRATS TO PAUL WE LOVE YOU! Afterwards we all went to the Fish Market (which isn't my favorite but I can always find something like Chicken in something like Pasta). And again all the family went there also the fellowship, the laughter and the talking is so addicting that you hate for the evening to end. This family has such a strong bond and I am so thankful to be such a part of it. I love you all very much and I enjoy each and every day with all of you.

Saturday was not that active of a day, I slept sorta late and enjoyed it so much. I stayed home and just hung out there. I have started playing Bingo on Yahoo and it is so much fun, I called it the I'm to old to keep up with the cards. I couldn't believe it was such a challenge, but for me it was.

Sunday is always such a great day for me and my family. We went to church and church is such a safe place to be. David always has such a great uplifting lessons. After church we went home to eat. We ate steaks, corn, salad, and peas it was great just all of us sitting at the table with each other. These occasions are getting rarer and rarer. I cherish my family so much, I enjoy every minute we have when we get it. Then we went to see mawmaw and pawpaw and I would like for everyone to please say a special prayer for the both of them, mawmaw is very sick. She is such a precious person and all her life she has done for others unselfishly. Pawpaw has been having some breathing problems so please remember him he seemed to be doing good today he was talking non stop. After church we came home Theresa and James was at the house and they had brought homemade Chicken soup and it was the best soup ever. The visit was good and we laughed and laughed about everything.

Monday Billy had a dr.apt at 8 and everything seemed ok. We both had an eye apt. and Billy's eyes were the same which surprised me and my eyes well just let me say they had changed big time. I am not getting new lenses because in Oct. my insurance wil cover almost all of new frames in Oct. so I am going to wait till then to get new frames.

Oh by the way Billy and I went to see the movie TWILIGHT I am not going to say much about the movie but I will tell you it is just wonderful I loved every bit of it, I was so shocked that I liked it so much. But please everyone go and see the movie.


Guess this is long enough. Mary

Christmas udate and much more

Hi! How is everyone doing? Great I hope! We are doing ok except that Billy is now sick, he has been throwing up and not feeling so well, he has the chills and can't seem to get warm, he is so worried about me getting sick but I feel like I will be ok someone has to take care of him.

Ok, Christmas was great, I was so happy to be able to get up and fix our BIG Breakfast for the family, everyone got to our house about 10 and the food was good. Christmas was different in many ways number one was Kim and the kids didn't make it because they were all sick and I tell you what I missed them so much and so did everyone else my house was not the same. Paul came by and ate and off he went, he went home to care for his sick people. And I really felt great, I made it just fine and I am so thankful for that, the Lord has blessed me so much in so many ways. So Kim and Paul can't wait till next Christmas and yall can't leave until midnight lol.

We spent New Year's Eve at Roebuck Pky Church of Christ with Daniel and his youth group. Mark drove the church van and several went from our church. Daniel had games and singing planned and of course there was food and it was delicious. We had singing which started about 11:30 and we sang in the New Year, all I can say is the singing seemed a little off for some reason I just couldn't put my finger on it and I wasn't even singing real loud.haha.

I didn't really make any New Years Resolutions but I did set me some goals reasonable ones. 1. Always remember God gave me everything that I have and never take things for granted.
2.Wake up everyday and say a prayer and go to bed every night with a prayer.
3.Say I love you to my family as often as possible more than I have been.
4.Wake up ready every day to make the best of every minute of the day. Don't take anything for granted.
5. Live life to the fullest.
6.Make a call to someone who is sick,or in the hospital or is just down and out.
7.Let every one know that I am a christian by the way I live and I want to be a good example to those who know me and those who are getting to know me.
8.Never forget where I got my second chance of life, GOD, THE DONOR, THE DONOR'S FAMILY I want to always say a prayer for them life has got to be hard.
9.I want to try and help my father as much as I can or as much as he will let me. Because I want him to meet me in heave with my mom standing beside me with open arms. I truly believe that it is never to late.

I guess I am going to end this I hope you are not to bored with my posting but it is the best I can do for now. Take care and I hope everyone has a great New Year and I hope all your dreams come true.

Love you all Mary.