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Continue reading →: 2025 Travel Tips for AdventureWhether you are a habitual traveler or someone that occasionally travels, planning is the key to a smooth and uneventful trip. Trips can contain airfare, car rentals, hotels, excursions, and food. Being a travel blogger, I love planning for all facets of a trip. Six years ago after a diagnosis…
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Continue reading →: Travel Products for 2025“There are affiliate links in this blog. If interested in a product, please click on the link and you will be redirected to Amazon. “ Travel Products January is the perfect month to rest, recuperate, and plan your vacations. While you are planning your vacations, it is a great time…
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Continue reading →: A Mindset of GratitudeThankfulness arises from something specific. Gratitude is reflecting on the things that you are thankful for… Happy New Year and Welcome to 2025! Welcome to the New Year and usually at the start of year we think about thankfulness. Instead, what a great way to start the year with a…
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Continue reading →: A Valued Community Post SurgeryAs we approach six months from my husband’s lung transplant surgery, it is a perfect time to reflect on the valued community we experienced 12 weeks following the discharge from the hospital. These twelve weeks contain outpatient appointments daily Monday through Friday that include Pulmonary Rehab, lab tests, chest X-rays,…
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Continue reading →: Continued Healing-Moving to the Step Down UnitMy husband was moved from the Intensive Care Unit to a Step Down Unit that is exclusively for lung transplant patients. I arrived at the unit in the morning on the first day to the nurses informing me that overnight he was wiggling in bed and he pulled out his…
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Continue reading →: Vibrant Views of the Vatican“This blog has affiliate links with Viator.com. If you are interested in the destination, please click on the links and you will be redirected to Viator.com.” On our trip to Rome after visiting the Colosseum and Trevi Fountain, our tour took us to the Vatican City and to say that…
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Continue reading →: Angels of the Intensive Care Unit“This is the eleventh blog in the Caregiver Series about recovery from a lung transplant.” If the Caregiver Series can help just one person going through the same journey, I will be grateful! One of the angels in the ICU explained that time does not operate the same inside a…
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Continue reading →: The Blessing of New Lungs“This is the tenth blog in the Caregiver Series discussing Lung Transplant Surgery.” Surgery Day I woke up at home early in the morning and took a breath and realized that today was surgery day. A day that we had been waiting for since the diagnosis 2 1/2 years ago.…






