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Elizabeth Reumont
Jun 5, 20144 min read
Raw Fairies: The Story behind the Mini B Cleanse
It all started with my increasing frustration and impatience in getting to know my new body since my liver transplant. The liver is an...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Jun 1, 20143 min read
Integration: Post Transplant Life Eight Months On
It’s hard to believe it has been eight months since my life changing operation; on September 26, 2013 I was given a second chance at life...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Feb 9, 20143 min read
Life lessons
Sometimes it’s good to take a pause. A pause to clean up shop, so to speak (the body and mind where we live and work); to reflect on why...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Nov 24, 20134 min read
Fear
After eight weeks in the hospital recovering from a liver transplant, I’ve finally been discharged and have begun to take stock of who I...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Nov 6, 20133 min read
a taste of home
Over the past few days of being in the hospital, my mind and emotions have stabilized as I acclimate to the lowered doses of pain...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Nov 3, 20135 min read
the blues (reds, oranges and greens)
Being in the hospital going on six weeks can sometimes feel like a marathoner at the twenty-second mile. “The wall”, as it’s called in...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Nov 1, 20135 min read
The bouquet of life
Five weeks. Five weeks! I never planned on a stay in the hospital this long. This wasn’t how my transplant recovery was supposed to go....
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Elizabeth Reumont
Oct 24, 20134 min read
Fresh Air
Today is my one month liver transplant anniversary. It is also the first time in a month that I have stepped outside of the hospital for...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Oct 20, 20133 min read
Even Mick Jagger knows about vairagyam.
You can’t always get what you want but if you try sometimes you just might find you get what you need. The Rolling Stones Often in life...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Oct 18, 20134 min read
Pain Management
The first time I ever heard of the term Pain Management was February 2013, when I was lucky enough to meet my current Hepatologist. I had...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Oct 17, 20133 min read
Update: 3 weeks since liver transplantation
The two words that come to for me when I consider the past week of my physical and emotional healing process are Pain and Love,...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Oct 15, 20133 min read
More on emotions
I have been crying lately primarily due to the amazement of life and death: the wonderment of feeling Love as purely and simply as I do...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Oct 15, 20133 min read
The Emotive Response of Receiving a Liver Transplant
I imagine there is a certain set of emotions that come with receiving an organ transplant from someone who has lost their life, and a...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Oct 12, 20132 min read
Another Wham Dinger of a Day
I realize that when I write about the medical complexities of organ transplantation it’s not always easy to follow, even for me. Even for...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Oct 8, 20133 min read
Life on 10N
PYS 1.33: Maitri Karuna Muditopeksanam Sukha Dukha Punyapunya Visayanam Bhavantas Citta Prasnadanam Definition: Maitri -friendliness...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Oct 8, 20132 min read
In the Arms of an Angel
Until that point, I felt like my body was hanging on, trying to adjust to the massive, seismic shifts that come with having the largest...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Oct 3, 20131 min read
A quick update, a week after liver transplant surgery
Life on 10N is Very touch and go right now. Each day there are new emergencies and something physical, emotional and/or mental to...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Sep 15, 20132 min read
Time.
Time, beyond being a measuring tool to make appointments which deem us too early or too late, confounds my cortical mind. It has been...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Aug 30, 20134 min read
Sliding Doors
PYS 2.3 avidya asmita raga dvesha abinivesha pancha klesha There are five kinds of hindrances or obstacles of the mind (kleshas): 1)...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Aug 24, 20133 min read
Anticipation
Yoga chitta vritti nirodhah (Patanjali 1.2) The state of yoga ceases the fluctuations of the mind (when you are in a state of yoga, all...
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