My lips are pink....

I looked in the mirror for the first time in three weeks. My lips are pink, my eye lids are light. Im no longer oxygen deprived. I no longer look sick. Its amazing. Today three weeks ago I got the call for new lungs. The nurse came in to my room back at st. mikes at one in the morning, Karen and said to me Hattie they just called they have your lungs for you, they have lungs for you honey...I woke up groggigly and said to her...noooo...no they dont. Yes yes they do. I then began to cry. I immediatly called my mama and papa and then lindsay. I have lungs! They have lungs for me! After 5 and half weeks on the list and almost 1 week on the rapidly deteriorating list, my lungs had come, now pray that it was not a false alarm . I remember this, but it seems so so so far away now. Everyone over here asks me how long I was waiting for and when I tell them 6 weeks, they say not long at all...and when I think about it, six weeks is not long...but when your living it...6 weeks was hell...especially that last week when I could not breathe, and things kept deteriorating. Anyways so that is the story of what I remember from getting my call.
Today three weeks ago I got the call.
Today I am alive.
Today I am listening to barbados playlist from two years ago, bobbing along looking out the window with the sun shining with tears in my eyes.....Im breathing....no oxygen, pink lips, light eye lids...Im alive...sigh.
Thank you donor, whoever you are, thank you, thank you, thank you....I will do you proud.