One of the craziest parts of liver failure is how much it can mess with my sleep schedule. Every day is a constant battle. I am either wired and can’t sleep… or I am exhausted and can never get enough sleep. Somedays, I am so tired I will sleep off and on throughout the day. This typically is coupled with a headache and the inability to focus on things. It is frustrating to be in this state becouse I constantly …
Author: ericgarofalo
Today I was thinking about my car…. well…. it isn’t my car anymore. I sold it at the end of 2019. I miss it. It was the greatest car I ever owned. And now, it is someone else’s car. If it wasn’t raining or snowing the top was down. Didn’t matter how hot or cold it was, the top was down. I mean what is the point of owning a convertible if you are going to drive it with the …
Today begins the second week of the spring semester. Yes, once again, I am a college student. So how did I get to this point? Well, for many years, I have regretted never completing college. There were nights that I woke up in a panic that I had made a horrible mistake. And now in my mid 40s, how was I supposed to correct this? Turns out the story wasn’t over. In the spring of 2019, I was trying to …
There is a good change that by the time you read this, April has come and gone. That is ok. My first real exposure of organ transplants came when my niece Karly, who was five had to get a new liver. That was ten years ago. I signed up as an organ donor shortly there after. I never would have guessed that many years later how this would have all played out. If you are looking for a way to …
The new normal. This is a phrase that people keep using over the past year. I suppose it could mean different things to different people. But, one thing is definitely for sure. As a general rule, normal is anything but…. normal. With everything that has gone on in the past 14 months globally, my new normal started a little before that. For Thanksgiving 2019, we took the kids to Disney World. While there, I started feeling… abnormal. Without going into …