Here, we go again. Blogger decided it needed to be streamlined, much like Facebook. If the way you view the posts has changed for the worse, I'm sorry. It's nothing I did and I will try to get it back to the old format as soon as possible. When the blogger (me) has to search around to find out how to post something, it only stands to reason that the reader (you) will have a hard time. But, in case you can find the posts easily, here's the latest...

John's surgery was successful and, as of this afternoon, their supervised outing is scheduled for tomorrow. He could be discharged as early as Friday! We went out to eat with Cindi last Friday for her birthday and we're all planning to go out when John is discharged.

Bill's still doing very well. We learned a little more last week about the actual process from donor to transplant that was very interesting. The coordinator was actually giving an illustration of a process and it turned out that he was talking about Bill's dry run! He said they have never gotten that far into the surgery before having it aborted!

He did get a call yesterday asking if he wanted to sign a waiver to accept an "older" heart. Generally a donor is between 15 and 55. But, with this waiver, if the donor is 55 years and 1 day to age 60, the heart can be used providing it meets all of the other requirements. So, we ran down to the clinic yesterday afternoon to sign the papers. I told Bill today that since he has been sick since he was 48 he doesn't know how a 60 year old is supposed to feel with a good heart!

Tomorrow is clinic day and I anticipate that it won't be out of the ordinary. He's had no problems except for that pesky little rash that comes and goes. We'll let Dr. Patel look at it tomorrow and see what he thinks.

All for this time. I'll update again when we have some more news.