I have gone to the LifeLine Party off & on for the past 25 years….25. That’s an insane number. I’ve met some new friends in all the years I’ve gone to this event and I’ve even hung out with some old ones, well old as in my age. We’re considered old to the Congenital Heart Defect world. 25 is the new old, marvelous. I have on friend in particular that I have taken a photo with every year we both went for the past 25 years, the oldest one I know of is around the time we were 1, before I had any type of thoracic surgery.
My friend is now married & living super far away from me – it took some getting used to with her being far away, but I’ve managed. At first I wasn’t sure what I was going to do since she wasn’t going to be close anymore, but I’ve adjusted and have done just fine with her being gone away from our college town.