sleeping beauty decided it was time to wake up!

Lindsay is awake and writing notes. She's even being called a super star by the nurses. But we already knew that didn't we? She has a clip board where she is feverishly writing notes away, asking where her lungs came from? which province? telling her family that she had a long time to talk with the nurses before surgery. She is also OVER the moon that she doesn't have a nose tube (lucky duck! it is definitely weird having that tube up your nose, speaking from experience)

Today Lindsay will probably come off the respirator. Yes you can get up out of your work chair and do a happy dance, this calls for it.

Today is the first day of Lindsay's new life. 


I can't wait to hear her new voice on the phone. I can't wait to hear her voice without the crackles, without the mucus plugs, without the coughs, without the struggles of breath. I can't wait to hear her laugh and laugh and laugh without having to stop from a coughing fit. I can't wait to have the spunky, blonde haired, girl back full of life, energy and breathing!

I can't wait to hear about the first time she goes swimming. The first time she runs down the street and doesn't feel winded. The first time she climbs stairs and realizes..."woah people can climb stairs and not get headaches and not feel as if they ran a marathon? awesome." I can't wait for her to go skiing at her chalet and go all day long, not just a couple hills, because she gets too tired and out of breath, but the WHOLE day. I can't wait for my friend to stop living in limbo and start living life, the way it was suppose to be lived. I can't wait for Lindsay's old lungs to stop holding her back from doing everything she dreamed of.
I can't wait for all these things mainly because Lindsay cannot even imagine what it's like yet. She has no idea how beautiful the world is going to get. As easy as it is for someone reading this, to know how easy breathing is, for someone with CF,  when she struggles with breath every day, struggles getting up the street car steps to go home at night, when she totes around an oxygen container, it's hard to imagine how easy breathing is, how beautiful life is about to get. How the simple act of breathing gives you energy, and allows you to have the world at your finger tips.
The world couldn't have asked or gotten a better candidate and patient to appreciate and love the gift she has been given. Lindsay loves to laugh and she whole heartily loves life.

This really is the greatest gift.
Christmas came early this year.
Thank you donor family for giving us all the best christmas gift. We love our lindsay.

And for a special treat, here are some photos of linds. They made me very very happy as I can feel the energy and good vibes radiating off of our girl, but they are graphic, so if your squeamish don't scroll down.

Please keep sending out positive thoughts. Even though Lindsay made it through the surgery with flying colours, (she rocks) it's the recovery that is often difficult. Positive thoughts, vibes and love is what our girl needs right now, so keep 'em coming. Our jobs aren't over yet. 

Happy happy happy happy wednesday morning everyone.
Today is a good day. a fine day. a GREAT day.


-Hattie

she's probably thinking "thumbs up because I can breathe!"

the journalist, furiously writing away on her clip board, always such the professional ;)