My Wednesday

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I was just making breakfast when the phone rang and it was Shand's asking me

how I was doing.........they told me to come, they had a single lung for me. and

I ran around the house as fast as I could, called Jim who was at work and we

both left to go to our agreed upon meeting place....a road side stop. He did

fine. I got lost twice on a road I know as well as the bback of my hand. We

finally connetd and left in one car for Gainesville.

" We got to the hospital yesterday at a little after 11 AM. After registering,

they took us to Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. The Cardiac ICU is right next to

Operating Room and is the most intensive unit they have. They told us the

operation would probably be in the afternoon. At about 3:00 PM, they said the

operation involved a young woman who was donating various organs, and the teams

harvesting those organs needed to coordinate their timing and complicating this

issue was that they were coming from different hospitals. At 4 PM, they said

it would be sometimes between 6 and 7. At 7:00, they said it would be between 8

and 9. At 9, they said sometime after 10, and at about 10:30, they came in and

said the lung was not suitable and that we would be discharged within about an

hour. We were out of the hospital around 11:30.and I needed to eat so we stopped

for that. I trust Dr. Baz and the tx team conpletely with their decisions. We

got to the hotel around 1 AM and are now on our way home. We continue the wait

for the next time.

Thank you all for your concern and prayers and well wishes. We are exhausted

but no worse for the wear.

I plan to be back in the office on Friday morning. "