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I Hope Wonders Never Cease.....and Thanks

Posted by: charlene pryor on July 4, 2009 at 11:14PM CST

I am forced, lately to sit in my recliner and stare into space wondering what will come with the next phone call or unexpected visitor. By far today and yesterday beat anything I could have dreamed as I nodded out and napped. You see my brother called yesterday from Denver. Colorado and said, " Sis, they have found me a liver and I am due for surgery tomorrow morning at 5AM. On the Fourth of July, not only the biggest holiday of the year, but my mom and dads 67th wedding anniversary. There is only my brother and I and my mom left in my immediate family. I was always his over protective big sis. Who often embarrassed him more than I knew. Just little things that as teens caused huge problems between us but melted away in later years and when I got Parkinson's Disease and started to travel and write we became very close. For many years, four or five, he has been on the transplant list and I really had given up hope and then this week he had four possibilities in three days and yesterday was a go. When I talked to him before surgery, he sounded better than he has for years....Very ready to start a new life! As of this evening. he has cleared the six to eight hour surgery and made it through recovery and is resting in his room. All of his numbers are increasing and looking good. It seems the live had attached to the skin and removal was very tricky and caused multiple areas for bleeding which may cause a second surgery tomorrow.

Ordinarily I would be in Denver by now, but as luck will have it I am medically grounded until at least the middle of next week so if you read this, could you say a small prayer for us....and remember this is still , by far the best country in the world and if you drove to see fire works or watched on television, was it not grand? Thanks for being here for me to vent love pokie

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A description of my journey to the 2009 Parkinson's Unity Walk in 2009, including interesting stories and bio's on our team members, our thoughts on our goals and dreams as we work toward our goal. We will be and currently are Team Patientslikeme.com. Our home is this website where we post daily. Our goal is to raise at least $25,000.00 this year for the cure.

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