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With friends and colleagues in my apartment at the rager I threw the night before I was admitted into the hospital, September 9, 2012.

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So happy when I was finally able to eat again several days after the transplant. Soup’s on!

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My sisters got a big kick out of seeing my dear friends Deborah Roberts and Gayle King.  

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Brightened my day when Sam and Josh came to visit me. I still wear the froggy slippers at home.

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Jo and Kim made several trips from Maine to see me in the hospital.

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When I could, I did yoga in the hospital. namaste.

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Saying good-bye and thank you to the nurses and staff at MSKCC before heading home after thirty days. There is no I in TEAM.  

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This was all I could think about when I was in the hospital for a month. Home sweet home, October 9, 2013.

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Hearing Mandisa sing “Stronger” on GMA brought Dorothy to tears.

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Michael Strahan feeding me birthday cake on the one-year anniversary of my transplant, September 20, 2013.

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My trusty assistant, Sonny Mullen, at my one-year “birthday” party, September 20, 2013.

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September 20, 2013: pointing skyward like sister Sally. Thank you, Lord!

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Visiting Pat Summitt at her home in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her dogs are never far from her side.

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