After a 14-hour day yesterday, we were grateful to finally arrive back home home at 8 p.m.  Here’s the view in my mirror as were leaving the Outer Banks.…

If you are reading this Monday morning, it means that Steve and I are trundling along in the car with Duke University Hospital in our sights.  (Since we had to leave at 6 o’clock this morning, I wrote this post yesterday and auto-scheduled it for this morning.) Now that the day is finally here, I am excited and scared and anxious and happy, all mushed…

Good morning from Durham, NC!  I ended up driving here yesterday since there were winter storm warnings all over the area.  The last thing I wanted, after managing to not be felled by the flu again, was to be waylaid by a winter storm.…

After four months of waiting, I finally get to say my Duke appointment is this week!  I’ll go by myself on Friday for a wide variety of pulmonary function tests and then Steve will return with me next Monday to get results from my new doctor, a pulmonologist and lung transplant specialist. …