I talked to the social worker at the dialysis clinic yesterday about being eligible for a kidney transplant and was finally given a goal weight to be eligible.

I only have 55 pounds to lose - much less than I originally thought. I can do this, hopefully in six months or so.

Wish me luck!

Here's a rather interesting link to a website about the catacombs of Palermo, Italy.  The site has photos of various corpses in the catacombs, including one extremely well-preserved mummy of a five-year old girl named Rosalia Lombardo.

http://members.tripod.com/~Motomom/index-3.html

All right, I'm bored. Anyone want to recommend a really, really good fanfic for me? Possibly something new in the past few months?

QAF (B&J only), Smallville (Clex), Harry Potter (Snarry) or Stargate Atlantis (McShep) are the fandoms I'm into.

Please, only happy endings - my life's been emotional enough lately without any additional angst.

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Have a happy Halloween!


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On August 18th, I went into the hospital thinking I had pneumonia.

On August 31st, I was finally released from Critical Care (14 days) and allowed to go home. It turned out I had developed a disease called Goodpasture's Syndrome. One in a million people get this disease, and to make odds even more astronomical, it affects six times more men than ( Read more... )

A dear friend died from a heart attack at the age of 44, leaving behind a wife and three children under the age of sixteen ( Read more... )

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Presents for my flist.


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My brother and sister-in-law moved to Anchorage, Alaska four years ago. Ever since then, both they and my dad and step mom have been bugging me to visit. However, whenever I've checked into plane tickets for a family of four, prices have run anywhere from $2500 to $3200. This is more than I normally spend on TWO vacations, and it doesn't even ( Read more... )