Thank you to all for all the love and help! We are doing well. Please see below for a message from our guy 😉 
xo, 
Annie

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I’ve been called many things in my life— “The black hole of useless information and needless knowledge,” “A one hundred-CD player on shuffle,” “Mr. President” of a make-believe Donut Nation—but one thing I’ve never been called is “boring.”

But sure enough, that’s what Mary Beth, an experienced, salt-of-the-earth nurse practitioner at the Inova post-transplant unit calls me, sometimes several times a week.

Me: “How does my body look and sound?”

Mary Beth: “Boring.”

Me: “How are my vitals looking?”

Mary Beth: “Boring.”

Me: “Did my bloodwork come back?”

Mary Beth: “Yep, and it’s all boring.”

If I didn’t know any better, I’d think Mary Beth thinks I’m the least-impressive person she ever met.

Only in the context of post-transplant recovery, boring is the new extraordinary.

Let’s back that up for a second—roughly 7 weeks ago I had surgeons TAKE OUT MY OLD HEART & REPLACE IT WITH A NEW HEART & SO FAR EVERYTHING IS GOING SO SMOOTHLY that it’s, well, physically speaking, boring.

I don’t think the magnitude of this epic event will ever sink in all the way no matter how many times I say it out loud. For someone who spent most of elementary school (and high school & college) being told to keep it down, I simply have no words.

So I am so pleased to be on the other side of this & thank everyone for their kind messages, cards, prayers, gifts, meals, childcare, & more.

For all the time I was in the hospital I didn’t once worry that I did not have the outside support system to see everything through smoothly.

Hope everyone has a boring summer. By which I mean extraordinary.