Selma's Posts

For the past few days, for some reason I've been thinking about my surgery a lot and I popped back over here to read some recent journal entries. That prompted me to go back and read my own and I realized that a year ago today, I wrote my first words on HVJ. It's been quite a year! Today, I watched happily as Brenda and Sophie found one another. Sophie's a week out and Brenda is having her surgery tomorrow; both at Mt. Sinai (I was there, too). It reminded me how wonderful it was to have had Nancy and Mitch and Bob and Val and Cindy (may she rest in peace) and Kate and Paul and Linda and Karen and Regina and so many others walking the walk along side me. In Bob's case, literally!! We walked the halls of 7 West together. What a wonderful community this is. At one point in my journal, I told the folks who'd gone before how great it was for those of us in the waiting room to hear their success stories. So I'm reporting in, a year later to tell you that I feel GREAT! :-) Selma

It's ticking a little faster than before and I'm having some PVCs, but most of the time it's hard to believe that 9 months ago, I was shuffling around the seventh floor of Mt. Sinai Hospital with various tubes and wires hanging off of me. The incision has healed well except for about 2 inches that look like there's a little worm under the skin, otherwise known as a hypertrophic scar. There really *is* a good life on the other side of this surgery and it's amazing how fast the memories of the discomfort recede. Good luck to everybody in the waiting room.