Happy Kidney Day!
/It’s been a whole year since I kissed David goodbye and watched him disappear behind the OR doors at Wake Forest Hospital. David’s living donor kidney donation to Burger seems like a century ago.
Read MoreIt’s been a whole year since I kissed David goodbye and watched him disappear behind the OR doors at Wake Forest Hospital. David’s living donor kidney donation to Burger seems like a century ago.
Read MoreBurger 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 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.