Category Archives: Life

Book Review– “Seven Letter’s That Saved My Life”

By amber | Published: May 24, 2010
Dottie is a true inspiration for the young and old, the sick and the healthy. Her message is clearly conveyed: to enjoy life and follow your dreams, never “give-up!” As you follow her life’s journey, you feel a significant connection to Ms. Lessard and her goals and your own dreams. Having Cystic Fibrosis myself, I [...]
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Losing A Best Friend

By amber | Published: January 30, 2010
The beginning of 2010 has been an emotional one, especially with the loss of one of my closest and dearest friends, Jana. Jana Kelly Sheets passed away on January 6th 2010 at the young age of 35. Jana and I had met three years ago at the Center for Living (CFL) after my [...]
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Holiday Happenings

By amber | Published: December 29, 2009
It has been a few weeks since my last blog, so thought I would share with you the happenings of the holidays. It started on our (Leah, Travis, Rod, myself, and Hank, the 145lb Great Dane) drive to Boston from NC. We left Durham around 5pm, just after the snow began to fall. [...]
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Rejection Yet Again

By amber | Published: December 12, 2009
This past Tuesday I received a phone call from my lung transplant coordinator, Tracie. She was calling to inform me of my previous week’s bronchoscopy results. They weren’t the words I was expecting to hear, “REJECTION again.” As the pathologists’ reports indicate, it is A1 acute rejection. This summer it was [...]
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Four Years Out

By amber | Published: November 29, 2009
Today is the four year anniversary of my first lung transplant at Mass General Hospital. This day back in 2005 was a memorable, yet terrifying, exciting, sad, scary, and a very joyous occasion. I remember the night before like it was yesterday…. That weekend I had been in Maine for Thanksgiving with the Marsh [...]
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Happy Thanksgiving

By amber | Published: November 25, 2009
Can you believe it? Where has two thousand nine gone? Some of us are happy to see the year pass by, as others’ just lost track of time and are shocked Santa is already at the mall. Myself, I won’t mind to see this year end but will treasure the memories, weddings, [...]
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So Much To Tell

By amber | Published: November 19, 2009
I feel like I have so much to tell you all that has happened over the past few years since I have been down here in North Carolina. Something exciting to mention: I started back to school. In October I enrolled in The Personal Training Institute (NPTI) in Raleigh. My good friend Alan [...]
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My First Blog

By amber | Published: November 14, 2009
Hi Everyone! I am so excited to write my first blog and allow you all into my daily life. I know it has been a few years since a post has been written on this website but now with the new layout (thank you so much to Kevin Smith! You are the [...]
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