Today, Shirley FINALLY got the call we’ve been waiting for. The transplant review committee met today and formally approved her placement on the lung transplant list at UW Medical Center. The only remaining steps are a double-check with her insurance carrier, and a tissue type cross match test. We’ll head up to Seattle next Tuesday to take care of the cross match.
Now the type of waiting changes, for the next call may well be a life-changing event. According to the transplant team, the average wait is about 144 days. BUT, every year since they started the lung transplant program at UWMC, they have had one patient who received “the call” on the first day they were made eligible. So it could come any day.
So we will keep the posts coming as we prepare and wait. I tried to figure out some way that allows you to “subscribe” to the blog so that you are automatically notified of new entries, but if that feature exists, I can’t figure it out. [Help me out any experienced blog readers if you know how to do this.] As an alternative, I’m going to create a couple of e-mail distribution lists. One will be for those that want to be notified of each new entry, the other for those that just want to hear once Shirley actually has her surgery. Please let me know if you wish to be part of either of these lists by sending me an e-mail (gdharris77@gmail.com).
Until next time…
Greg (& Shirley)
1 comment:
Woo hoo!! On the list! Congrats, I admire all the administrative nightmares you've put up with. Of course, it will all be worth it when Shirley goes sky diving and runs marathons. Or takes that Mexico vacation she's been eyeing :)
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