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11 Years and Onward We Go

  Hello friends, today marks 11 years since I received a heart transplant at JHH. I didn't say this last year, but it's nice to be in double digits. At the same time, one wonders how much time is left. A morbid thought, perhaps, but it lives in the recesses of my mind. I hardly remember being 16 and here I am 11 years later at 27 years old taking each day as it comes.  Like last year, I have no grand celebration planned. I don't have the energy to party plan as it were and I am relatively dull. I will likely drop by at SU to chat up some professors like I previously planned a couple of weeks ago, maybe grab a drink from Starbucks, and otherwise spend the day at home reading or sleeping.  Let's recap this past year, shall we? (if I can even remember what happened)  This year (2022) feels like it's gone by so fast and I find it hard to believe because I think a part of me is still stuck in 2020. Stuck in March 2020, still in pharmacy school, on the Friday afternoon be...

Obligatory First Post

Hello, friends (hi, Nicole!), I have returned to blog another day. I very recently (in the matter of a couple of days) decided to start blogging afresh. I'm not sure if this will become much of a habit as it was for me when I was a teenager - I was way more open than I ever thought I was and maybe that's still true, all things considered - but we'll see where this goes.  I'm not sure what to say or how to start this off, but I am quite tired from this week. Brain empty, eyes fluttering, heart relieved. The weekend is far too short, though it has barely begun.  My best friend and I recently met up with a classmate from middle/high school and it was interesting but also a little strange to be reunited with someone from a past that I barely remember. You see, every so often, I think about people that I have passed through, that have passed through me, throughout my life. And I wonder, where are they? Who are they? Are they still here? What happened to the kind, artisticall...