This is it!

At 9:00pm tonight it will be exactly one week ago that I received my new lungs.

I'm being discharged today...orders are written, meeting with the Pharmacist after lunch and I'm out of here.  So long hospital, no offense intended!  I want some home cooking and to sleep in my own bed...I want to see my son, Brayden.

I am so thankful to have this new lease on life and to be able to breathe again.  I have so many people to thank:  the medical teams, doctors, nurses, housekeepers, transporters, aids, dieticians, food service, respitory & physical therapists, x-ray technicians, and all of my family and friends. 

I especially want to thank my maker and Father in heaven...I've been praying, a lot, as many of you have, and feel this gift is truly, a special gift from God.  Words can not explain how I feel.  I also want to think that my brother, Jake, had a lot to do with this. He's up there looking over me and putting in the good word.  I can only imagine he won a poker tournament and the "pay out"deal was to speed up the transplant process for his brother, me.

I want everyone to know I am so grateful for your cards, well wishes, contributions, offers of support, thoughts and all of the prayers that were so successful in my expedient surgical and healing process...what a week this has been.  I think the Doc's in Barnes are all amazed, too.  Hey, maybe they'll ask me to be a transpant consultant?

I will be residing with my parents for the interim time as I recover and until I have clearance to lift, drive, and/or work.  I do have to be very careful with the visitors and any infection items. So, I am asking that anyone considering a visit to please call the house ahead of time to check with me on my therapy schedules and any other health related issues.  I do want to see everyone...it's just going to take a little more time.

I now have 3 months of post operative therapy, both pulmonary and phsysical, at Barnes Hospital. Mom and I will be making daily jaunts to St. Louis.  The transplant team will continue to monitor my progress, watch for signs of infections, and monitor for organ rejection using various techniques to ensure the safety and well being of my new lungs.

It's still a long, uphill battle, but at least I can breath freely, and I don't have all of the debilitating and persistant coughing that I experience the last 26 years.  And, I'm confident I'll be up and running around like I used to, can't wait to play a game of soccer with my son.

Again, thank you, God!

Much Love,

Adam R. Brockmiller
AKA - "The New Man"