I checked in today with Bonnie at the Innova Transplant center to find out the results of last week's tests, and to get updated on the schedule for our next appointments. Kimberly, our normal coordinator was out.
Bonnie said that our cross-type matching, done at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, takes two weeks to process, so we won't hear anything for a while. I asked about upcoming appointments, because Jennifer had gotten a letter for an appointment, and I haven't gotten any paperwork at all (even including the day of the operation). You'd think that they would give you at least one of those little Dr. Office appointment cards that says the date of your next appointment.
She said that Jennifer is scheduled for another round of tests on the 2nd of November, and then both she and I go in on the 4th for pre-op counseling and final tests. What tests, I asked. Another chest Xray, EKG and another set of cross match blood tests.
I was in the office when she called me and I didn't want to go into a detailed conversation, but I was tempted to pull on the thread a little -- if last weeks' tests take two weeks to get back, and the next set is done a week before the operation, when will they be back? After we're all done? But I didn't. I'm trying to be very nice to these folks and not be viewed as a difficult patient.
On the weekend, Michelle and I had spent Sunday afternoon with our friend Barbara at the Hillsboro art show (they looked, I took photos of the old working mill equipment in the basement), and then dinner at her house with her husband Jack. He stayed home to cook lamb and watch the Redskins get cooked. Dinners are always a culinary delight at their house.
Earlier in the day, we met Jen and Steve at the Briar Patch in nearby Middleburg to view a possible venue for their wedding, now set for 14 February. It's a B&B with a nice conference area that they fell in love with, and decided that's where they are going to have the wedding. There is plenty of room in the B&B for all of Steve's family -- s0 they rented the entire place for the whole weekend.
And alumni note -- the Idaho Vandals won their sixth game this season on Saturday, making them bowl-eligible, first time since football was invented, I think. They even lead Boise State in the WAC standings.
Bonnie said that our cross-type matching, done at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, takes two weeks to process, so we won't hear anything for a while. I asked about upcoming appointments, because Jennifer had gotten a letter for an appointment, and I haven't gotten any paperwork at all (even including the day of the operation). You'd think that they would give you at least one of those little Dr. Office appointment cards that says the date of your next appointment.
She said that Jennifer is scheduled for another round of tests on the 2nd of November, and then both she and I go in on the 4th for pre-op counseling and final tests. What tests, I asked. Another chest Xray, EKG and another set of cross match blood tests.
I was in the office when she called me and I didn't want to go into a detailed conversation, but I was tempted to pull on the thread a little -- if last weeks' tests take two weeks to get back, and the next set is done a week before the operation, when will they be back? After we're all done? But I didn't. I'm trying to be very nice to these folks and not be viewed as a difficult patient.
On the weekend, Michelle and I had spent Sunday afternoon with our friend Barbara at the Hillsboro art show (they looked, I took photos of the old working mill equipment in the basement), and then dinner at her house with her husband Jack. He stayed home to cook lamb and watch the Redskins get cooked. Dinners are always a culinary delight at their house.
Earlier in the day, we met Jen and Steve at the Briar Patch in nearby Middleburg to view a possible venue for their wedding, now set for 14 February. It's a B&B with a nice conference area that they fell in love with, and decided that's where they are going to have the wedding. There is plenty of room in the B&B for all of Steve's family -- s0 they rented the entire place for the whole weekend.
And alumni note -- the Idaho Vandals won their sixth game this season on Saturday, making them bowl-eligible, first time since football was invented, I think. They even lead Boise State in the WAC standings.
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