Patience Grasshopper...

 This blog will be posted some time after it was written due to an outside directive to not talk about my living donor experience until after I have donated.  If you are reading this, it is because I have completed the donation process. 

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February 15, 2011

Patience is a virtue. Or so they say anyway.  I've always been a fairly patient person.  Line up?  No problem.  Flight delay?  Great excuse to buy a book. Traffic?  Okay,  I might get a little antsy (I'm not a saint!) but I am still calmer that 99% of the drivers around me. As a child, I appeared even more patient than most in contrast to my severely-patience-challenged younger brother who often didn't want to wait the amount of time it took someone to complete the simplest of tasks for him.

Maybe I should have bottled some of that patience up and saved it for the future because I am really having a hard time "waiting" to see if I am approved to donate. Or even just to know when my next appointment is. Last week at the end of my pow wow at Foothills about the whole "social media" situation, I was told that the kidney doctor needed to postpone the appointment I had originally been booked for the next day. I understand the appointment being delayed but its been a few days and I haven't heard back about a re-booking yet. I would think that a calendar is a calendar and they can just look for his/her next available time no?  That particular appointment is the one that determines if I move ahead and if the surgeon appointment can be booked (which will be 1-2 weeks after that).

It's tough waiting.  People ask me what's next and I just have to shrug...I know the next step but I don't know when it is. You'd be surprised how much hinges on whether or not I am eligible.  Things like the level of volunteering I will do with a new organization I'm involved with with (Momentum-check them out as they are a pretty interesting resource in the Calgary community).  I've just started sitting on their micro business loan committee and I am interested in also doing some business development coaching.  I don't want to get involved with that though unless I know I can commit to the blocks of time required as my coaching could impact a start-up business plan's success. It's also making me wonder about the best timing for some role changes at work as well as the best time to take vacation.  I also was considering doing the Kidney March but if my surgery is not till later in the year that might not be feasible. However if its in the next 2 months (or not at all) then I could still do it and could start fundraising now!

I know, I know-when they are ready they will call and I will know when I know. I just need to be patient.  After all,  patience is the art of concealing your impatience (Guy Kawasaki).