I have never before known someone personally who had such a large, diverse, and fantastic group of friends! This is the kind of stuff you see on Oprah! All of you are just so open-arms, generous, caring, and thoughtful in every thing you do. Each of you are blessings.
Why am I glowing tonight? Another dear friend is taking on a challenge to help support the Ways! I am so excited to share what this friend will be doing, but for now it's under wraps. I will make a post about it when I'm given the green light : ).
Michelle is going for banding surgery tomorrow. With liver disease comes scary side effects such as esophageal varices, which are little bulging veins in the esophagus(food pipe) with the potential to burst. Michelle goes for surgery every 3 months to get new varices tied off(or banded) to reduce the risk of a bleed out. Unfortunately in the past she has had numerous varices banded in the same spot which has lead to some scar tissue that can make swallowing difficult for her. I have had tears sting my eyes when I've witnessed her in pain and gagging because it can be hard to get food past this scar tissue. Please pray that surgery will go well, that any new varices will be few or none, and that there will not be any near the already scarred up part of her esophagus.
Thank You,
Tracey
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“We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.”
This is a blog for my amazing friend Michelle Way who is fighting the battle of a lifetime. Michelle has Wilson's disease, a debilitating genetic disease that affects the body's ability to process copper. Overtime internal organs can become damaged, and in Michelle's case her liver is failing. Michelle was officially placed on the transplant list in November 2008; and after a long wait finally received a live-donor transplant on February 16th, 2010!
“We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.”
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