Many of you have been with me on this journey since day one, and some of you lovely souls have been picked up along the way~ for each and every person in my life I feel such love and gratitude I can’t even adequately express it through words.

After a long and taxing process of procedures, new diagnoses (including a bout with thyroid cancer, and as yet untreated TB), some minor scares and ER visits, and lots and lots of work and aid from my amazing support system, my health is improving finally- most days I’m able to get some exercise in and be relatively productive, even if my steps go wobbly or my words don’t flow as well as they have in the past.

Unfortunately it is still a certainty that if I want to, as my doctor put it, “live to grandma age”, I will require a full liver transplant.

Mayo has been amazing but my Medicaid has been denied and my insurance is over $300 but still doesn’t make much of a dent- I’m listed but have over $10,000 of debt to chip away at still and that’s before cost of the actual procedure.

I struggle to close this with enough gratitude as I feel, and my mind keeps pulling me lately to four huge words echoing in my head so loudly my ears physically ache: “I want to live” ♥️