Re: Happy re-birthday (#2)!! & New Photos

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" ...And isn't it

for just such moments that we go through with a liver transplant? "

Rich... Jim ( & I) would in unison say: YES! ABSOLUTELY!!!

POSITIVELY!!!!! ABSITIVELYPOSILUTELY!!!!!!!

Hi Maureen:

Beth's degree is in advertising, with a minor in Spanish. She plans to

move to Denver in late June, where her brother lives. She'll do some

marketing work for him (he's about to leave his job with Accenture and

go out on his own with his Website-development business) while she

looks for full-time, longer-term employment. Both my kids are

career-oriented right now, so grandkids are most likely a ways down

the road. But it will be good to have them both in the same city, and

Denver is a relatively cheap flight from KC.

With all the new photos added to this site recently, I finally figured

out how to get some of my own photos down to the proper size so they

could be posted here. They're in a new album, under the name " KC

Rich. " The first photo is from Beth's graduation two weeks ago. The

second and third are pre-transplant photos. The first, from 1999,

shows my significant weight loss and muscle wasting. The second, taken

just a couple weeks before my transplants in May 2001, reveals the

major edema and ascites issues I was dealing with.

Rich in KC

Cryptogenic cirrhosis, Crohn's, liver transplants 5/2001