Almost 3 years!

I can't believe it's been almost 3 years since I have received my "gift of life" there is not 1 single day that goes by that I don't wake up and thank God for each and every day! 
My lab work has been almost normal, to give you an idea of what some of the numbers were 3 years ago compared to now here are the results
Alkaline  Phosphatase (2008) 957
                                  (2011) 105
                           normal range is 40-120
                           Alt (2008) 515
                                (2011) 24
                         normal range 1-35
I know your probably like "okay now what do these mean" lol well the Alkaline Phos. basically measures how blocked your bile ducts in your liver are, and Alt helps figure out how well your liver is functioning.  In 2008 I woke up every morning vomiting, it was a routine and I actually got used to it :(   but I still praised God everyday!  There is actually a song that makes me cry everytime I hear it because it reminds me of exactly how I felt during all this, it's a more contemporary type Christian song but it really captures how I felt.
Here is the song:
Whatever You're Doing LyricsArtist(Band):Sanctus Real

It's time for healing time to move on
It's time to fix what's been broken too long
Time make right what has been wrong
It's time to find my way to where I belong
There's a wave that's crashing over me
All I can do is surrender

(Chorus)
Whatever you're doing inside of me
It feels like chaos somehow there's peace
It's hard to surrender to what I can't see
but I'm giving in to something heavenly

Time for a milestone
Time to begin again
Revaluate who I really am
Am I doing everything to follow your will
or just climbing aimlessly over these hills
So show me what it is you want from me
I give everything I surrender...
To...

(Chorus)

Time to face up
Clean this old house
Time to breathe in and let everything out
That I've wanted to say for so many years
Time to to release all my held back tears

Whatever you're doing inside of me
It feels like chaos but I believe
You're up to something bigger than me
Larger than life something heavenly

Whatever you're doing inside of me
It feels like chaos but now I can see
This something bigger than me
Larger than life something heavenly
Something heavenly

It's time to face up
Clean this old house
Time breathe in and let everything out

My summer :)

My summer has been pretty awesome, God answered so many of my prayers, I got a car that was very needed and I love my new(ish) car.  I did have a little set-back in early June and had to go into the hospital but that got worked out quickly and I was able to go home. My labs checked out and they were great, I also got the "ok" from both of my doctors to travel, I got to go on a mini-vacation to visit some friends in Arkansas, it was great.. I loved being at a house will so much love and so many little one's and I thank them so much for welcoming me into their home :)
In early July I got to spend some days with my second cousin Hunter, she kept me on my toes (she's only 3) lol, I also got to see some of my family that I don't see very much.  On the 4th of July I got to shoot off fireworks with my Mom and Dad and on the 5th I shot off fireworks with some friends (I used to teach their oldest child in preschool, now she's taller than me lol and I babysat the youngest when he was an infant, now he's 7) but we stayed close and i'm thankful that we are good friends!
We are now at the end of July and i've been in the "writing mood" my fingers have been busy typing up a storm and I also have many little post-it's all over posted with notes and ideas, I'm working hard on finishing my book, but I only write when I feel led to write, I can tell when God is leading me and it's wonderful!
I am also thinking about taking a LEAP and start piano lessons, I really want to learn and I think it would be just about the best feeling to be able to sit down and just play.. I LOVE classical music as well as some others and it would feel awesome to be able to play whenever I wanted :)
There you go!! My summer so far :)

My Journey (part 1)

*This might be long and boring but I want to get it out there before I forget*

When I was about 25 I began to have severe pains in my shoulders, eventually I went to the ER (at that time I had never had to go to the ER and the thought of hospitals and needles didn't appeal to me) the Doc at the ER took some blood and did an ultrasound of my gallbladder, he saw that my gallbladder had gallstones and gave me some pain medicine in my IV, well after that I was feeling great lol and ready to leave.
I didn't get to leave that night, I sat in the bed with my mom and the Doc walked in (white as a ghost) before he could even say anything I knew something was wrong..  He had told me my liver numbers were way off the charts, one number was 1500 and the norm is 20-120 so I was way way off, his thinking was that if I got my gallbladder out it would fix my liver numbers.  So an hour or so later I was getting ready for surgery and was scared!!  I had never had to have surgery like this before and to top it off never had any health problems EVER and now my gallbladder and liver was acting up.
After my Gallbladder was removed and I was in recovery for a few days my Liver numbers we not getting better and I began to have severe pain in my sides..  I still managed to work full time through all this and loved my job so much!
Part 2 will be about my tests and how a prayer saved my life (stay tuned)

stuff :)

Okay i'm writing this one about my silly sleep schedule, for some reason my days turned into nights and nights turned into days..  it's really terrible, my sleep is now from about 4am until noon, it's not fun at all to "sleep" the day away but I have adjusted to it..  my breakfast/lunch is around 4 and my dinner is around 10pm and I do laundry and stuff around 7pm. now I haven't had to deal too much with doctors visits or getting labs, I think that's going to be an issue when those come up, and I have had to rearrange my medicine schedule too (instead of 9am/9pm) it's now 12 and 12.
 My bible time is at night when the house is quiet and still.. I get lost in the amazing words and stories! My goal is to read the bible in a year ( I have read it before but I REALLY want to understand it and spread the word better) so feel free to encourage me :)

Home away from home?

It's no secret that I have spent my share of nights in the hospital, i'm so used to the smells, sounds and sights of the hospital, I am very familiar with the routine of getting a PICC line after the many pokes from the iv team trying to find a vain :( and the taste of the saline is almost a sigh of relief because I know it's in the right spot and I can get my meds.  I have had my share of stomach bleeding issues and needed many scopes to look down my throat, most of the time they treat me like a child and hold my hand while they push the medicine through my IV line and I can feel the warmth of the meds pump through me and the room starts to spin and I take a nap.
 I'm also very used to my routine of going to the lab and getting blood drawn and knowing exactly which person is the best at getting my blood.
I usually forget that doing all this isn't the "norm" for most people but this is all I have done for about 6 years. This is my Home away from home!

About me!

I am NEW at this :) and not sure what i'm doing but I know I can figure it out.
The title for my blog came about because your life can literally change in the blink of an eye, as mine did (I will do a blog more about that later)
My name is Heather Jane and i'm 31! I live in Kansas City Mo.
Sep 10, 2008 is my re-birthday which is the day I received my Liver Transplant at KU hospital.  That's all for now!