We were blessed again with no rejection! Dr Yip was also pleased with his ejection fraction and bloodwork. The only change made was with a minor med (as compared to the anti-rejection "major meds) and it is now as needed instead of daily.

We went to the support group meeting and it was good to see everyone there. One of our social workers is VERY pregnant and will be out on maternity leave when we come back in May. There were 2 LVAD patients and the caregiver of another LVAD that was just implanted yesterday. One of the other guys is having a lot of external problems that add more stress to both of them so we did some extra praying for them. So we talked a lot about coping with things beyond our control.

We ran into the first ICU nurse to have Bill after surgery and she could not believe how he looked. He mentioned that the drs. didn't think he would walk again and I told him that at the beginning Nikki didn't even think he would survive. He's fortunate that he doesn't remember most of his time in the hospital. Maybe one of these days, if he asks, I'll tell him a little more and show him a picture of the Centrimag machine that kept him alive. Nikki was actually the nurse who saw the blips on the monitor when the heart started to beat on its own. We saw some other nurses too and it's always nice to see them. They also like seeing their patients come back. They have said it makes their jobs more worthwhile to know they have really helped someone.

Tomorrow we're having lunch with some other friends and getting some new tires put on my car. We got the tires for about $100 less than we could get them at home, and that's per tire! That's what I get for buying a vehicle with an odd size tire! Doesn't seem possible that we've put that many miles on the car in 3 years, but since one has already been repaired it seemed best to go ahead and replace all of them. As I say often, it's only money!

Thursday is the driving evaluation and then heading to Don & Shirley's for a couple of days. Won't update until we get there to give the results of the evaluation. So until Thursday night...enjoy your day tomorrow!