On the other side!!

Hello All,

I am sorry that it has been a while since I last posted. It has been kinda chaotic..

If you do not know I have had my transplant!!!! I got the call last Thursday July 21, while I was on my way to church. I was on the phone with Travis and it was poring down rain.. I got another call as we were talking and I noticed that it was a blocked number.. My dr has always called me from private and blocked numbers, so I kinda thought that it might be him. Sure enough it was. He said that they had a heart for me, and wanted me to be at the hospital withinn the next hour.

So Travis met us at the house and we went ahead and took the kids on up to church, our small group and another small group that we have been with for a while all took the kids and prayed for me!!!! I was so thankful to have been able to see all of them before heading down to the hospital.

On the way I think Travis almost had 3 wrecks, I was praying at that moment that we would just make it.

When we got there they got me admitted right away, and I was in a wheel chair on my way up to 6 Cooley A to wait.

Dr. Kar came in and told me that everything was still a go, but that they still needed to look at the heart and make sure that it looked as good on the inside as it did on screen. SO we waited....waited... at about midnight they said that there was a false positive of Hepititis B and they had to ask me if I wanted to procede. I told him that I wanted to go forward with the surgery. He had told me that all the other organs had still been accepted and that there were 4 other patients ready to accept this heart if I was not..so I decieded to go ahead.

I think that it was finally about 1:30 0r so when they finally came and got me, I know that I had friends and family that weere there keeping me company. This really helped my mood.

I remember tellling everyone bye, and then then taking me on in the surgery room. They had given me a Xanex a little earlier so I was a little tired already. I had told Dr. Kar that I wanted to see him before they put me out, so we were waiting on him to come in and talk to me, and I was crying...the anesthesiologist was complaining that Dr. Kar was not there yet, (didn't he know we were on a time crunch), this made me even more nervous so I started ncrying more...I think that they gave me something cause I do not even remember talking to Dr.Kar, but I know that I did.

The next recollection I have was hearing voices talking to me...I knew all of these voices but could not open my eyes, and wanted what ever the heck was in my throat out!!!!!

So I had made it through the surgery!

I found out later that there was another scare that we may not get to go through with it due to the hepititis B, but after about an hour they confirmed that it was ok and it was still a go.

I was pretty out of it for the next day or so, I remember bits and peices of the days. On Sunday they moved me from CVR to the 12th floor, which is where I currently am at. I am doing well, but there are a few things that we are trying to get tweeked.

We are waiting for the reults of the biopsy that I had to have done on the heart yeaterday. I have to have these every week for the first 3 weeks and then every two weeks, and so on, and so on....

after they are ngative for a year I think that there is a blood test that they use to check for the rejection.

I also have an external pace maker attached, and it has been pacing me every now and then, so the dr is trying to decide whether or not he wants to put one in before I go home. I do not want this. I do not want to have to go through another surgery at all. But I know that he knows best.

So we should know more on Monday. I know that this is a lot of information, but I thought I would just let you all know how it was going.

I want to thank everyone for the prayers!!!!!!!!! This is all that is getting me through right now.

I am sorry if there are a lot of mispellings..

July 9, 2011

I am continuing to wait for the call, and I am trying to do so with a sense of calm. It gets harder and harder to do day by day.

I was told by the doctors that I am anemic, and they started me on some iron pills this past Wednesday.

I have only had one evening where I felt a little icky, but it passed by morning.

They changed my pump out to a new pump on Tuesday because last Friday I felt really bad, and by the next day I realized that the pump had not been running for 13 hours and I was not receiving my medicine. No wonder I felt so bad.

I really honestly do not know how I managed without this medicine.

I am really hoping that we can be done with the transplant before school starts back up for the year. My daughter takes all of this pretty hard, and I really want her to have a good year. She is going into the 5th grade, and the last two years I have been in the hospital at the beginning of school. Hopefully not this year.

I know that all of this is hard on all of my family, but I really worry about the kids and how it is going to affect them in the long run. I know that all of this GOD has control over and it is one of those things that I need to let go of and trust that he loves them more than I ever could. (Even though that is hard to imagine.)

Once again thank you all for the continued prayers. Please keep them coming and ask that I get the call soon!

Also will you please lift up the donor and his/her family. I pray for them daily, but I wanted to enlist some of my prayer warriors on this also! Thank you so much!!

Love you all!!!!