Seattle Kidney Trip – Day 5

It’s humbling how helpless you can feel when someone you love is in pain. I spent most of the day in the hospital with Heather. It was not particularly joyful or eventful, but I needed to be with her. I hope she needed to be with me. As she did her best to eat and pee and take walks around the hallways, I did my best to help her and make her comfortable in any way I could. She’s not quite herself yet. Of course, little by little, that will change.

There is no poetry, metaphor, or hyperbole in saying that Heather literally sacrificed a piece of herself to save the life of someone she loves, and I am left astonished as the weight of that decision continues to sink in. I am infinitely blessed that a woman of this caliber chose to spend the rest of her life with me. Words cannot express how dear she is to me. I will do anything for her, always.