Burger was finally discharged and he and Nancy, too, began a daily walking routine. We met each night for dinner and chatted about the recovery process. Both donor and recipient were doing amazingly well.
Read MoreBack in April, further testing had been done at Wake Forest Baptist (WFB) including a tissue match to determine that David and Burger were compatible. Colleen, our Transplant Coordinator and her staff, coordinated all this for us without a hitch. We already knew that the blood types matched and ultimately we learned that David and Burger were a good all-around donor-donee match, but what if they hadn’t been?
Read MoreIt all began with last year’s holiday letter from a friend. There was so much going on with the holidays when we received it, we put off reading it for a couple of weeks. When we finally retrieved it, we were surprised to learn that a long-time cruising friend was on dialysis and needed a kidney.
Read MoreHi there and welcome to Just A Little Further!
We are David and Marcie Lynn and we've lived aboard our Liberty 458 cutter-rigged sailboat since 2000.
What began as an urge to travel slowly and economically at our own pace ended up an adventure of a lifetime.
Well, here we are ... nearly 90,000 miles under the keel, 5 continents, 5 Great Southern Capes, 36 countries and almost two decades later, still taking one passage at a time and going just a little further.
