Lisa's thoughts about Love, Life, Lyme, and Liver disease

This will be the first of many blogs as we take a stroll down memory lane with "Heather the Actress".  So please join me for some great memories and funny stories.  I promise it will be light and interesting and not discuss medical stuff.  Shocking, I know.   Of course, Heather has given me the green light to proceed. When Heather was 14, some of her friends at a community theater group guided her to sign with an agent.  This was Heather's dream.  My job was to make sure she kept on top of her studies.  Side note - The picture shown is one of Heather's first head shots.  So cute and it makes me smile.  So many wonderful memories.  We laugh about the bangs - they were very Beverly Hills 90210. So here we go - Part 1 - Heather's first movie acting gig in  "Contact"  Starring Jody Foster and Matthew McConaughey.  Zoom in and you can see the movie poster that I "found".    Isn't Jody - errr Heath...

Heather's liver enzymes have been the same for the last 3 months.  Trust me, this is a really good thing.  Her liver enzymes aren't normal, but who really knows what normal means. Heather had a normal childhood.  But as I type this I don't think it was normal for her to have two surgeries before she was 2.  I don't think it was normal that she had her Screen Actor's Guild card at the age of 15 (yep, once a stage Mother always a stage Mother).   On a side note, Heather can attest that I wasn't a normal stage Mother.  I was simply the chauffeur to/from auditions, jobs, lessons.  Driving 100 miles a days were sometimes the norm for us, but I digress.    So, bottom line, we are very pleased with Heather's health stabilization.  She will not see the Liver specialist for THREE WHOLE months.  Normally she was going every month.  Needless to say, we are ecstatic that the appointments are further apart.   She will contin...