6 month anniversary!

Dear all our Stars and Angels:

Wow. I just cannot believe it has been 6 months tonight since my transplant surgery! In some ways it seems like yesterday, and in other ways it seems like forever ago. So much good fortune has come to me/us, and we are ever mindful of and thankful for all of your love, help, support, prayers, good energy, and blessings. In case we have not come out and said to each and every one of you, near and far, what we think all the time, THANK YOU!

We have received about a foot of new snow in Park City since yesterday afternoon (after a foot over the weekend). Today, the skies cleared around 4 pm, at which point it was just beautiful outside. So, to celebrate the new snow, Shea (our nanny), Mason, Liam, and I geared up in our winter clothes, and I cleared the driveway with the snowblower for the first time with my new heart! Shea said I had a huge grin on my face each time I came back down the driveway!! It was fun and I felt great.

My most recent biopsy was a week ago, which was another miserable experience but the results were excellent (no rejection) so that is all that really matters. All else is well with us. Mason and Pete have been skiing twice together, and Mason has been twice (again tomorrow) with the free program through his preschool. Mason, Pete and I will ski together on Sat. (my first time post-op!). We'll wait to take Liam until the Spring or a warm winter day. It is too frigid and too busy on the slopes this time of year.

Thanks for all your continued love and support. Thanks also for your prayers for my friends Bill and Paul, who are still waiting for new hearts. Perhaps they will get the ultimate extra special Christmas gift this year! I am thinking, as always, of my donor family and wish them peace and love -- it must be especially difficult for them this time of year.

I wish you all a great week of Hannukah and great pre-Christmas week!
Lots of love and thanks,
Emily