I hesitate often to speak/blog about how I'm doing, because it seems that just when I say all things are good, I take a little step backwards.

"It" comes back - "It" is the fact that I have a life-long chronic illness that manifests itself in different ways, depending on how "It" feels. No, "It" doesn't simply go away, no matter how much I wish it would.

I'm still dealing with ongoing chronic pain/fatigue - and "It" is something no one can figure out.

This past summer, Sam Pifer, a 21 year old adult who worked in North Carolina, came home to visit his parents in rural Pennsylvania. Three days after arriving home, he suffered a severe head injury (ironically, on June 30, my first day back to work after my kidney transplant), was declared brain dead, and his organs were harvested for donation to various recipients.