She's doing well. She's been in karate class, got her driver's license, has an after school job at Mr. Gatti's. And she WON'T SHUT UP TALKING. Maybe thats a typical 16 year old girl, or maybe because she couldn't say more than 5 words at a time before surgery, she's got thousands to say now.
From time to time she thinks about the donor and their family and feels a twinge of sadness.
She's also sad when she thinks about a good CF friend who was at the top of the transplant list until spring when the guidelines changed placing her there. The friend became sick enough to top the list but died while my niece was in St. Louis.
Over all, a very good outcome.
