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Long Drive
Today was a full day of driving! Last night we stayed at our second home, our usual medical center hotel. We didn’t see any of our regulars while checking in or out though. We planned to hit the beach in the evening so I was going to wear shorts but opted for something a little…
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Great Start
We were up early to get ready and load the car, we hadn’t loaded a thing up the night before. We ended up having our out of town friends crash on our couches, our spare bedrooms aren’t done yet. Well actually their old couches we bought from them when they moved! The dogs were excited…
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Celebration
I don’t know how fiscally responsible this trip is but we needed to celebrate a win! We’ll be staying on points earned from our long stay in Houston after the transplant and we’re going to be hitting up state parks for hiking and cooking a lot of our meals so it’s not like it’s a…
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Staying another day
Amanda is feeling a little better but not much. We’re going to stay another day just to be safe. Looking better than last night, not sure she feels it though. She took a shower earlier to get all of the hospital off. Which I’m sure made her feel better but was quickly canceled out and…
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Hospital nights
Well Amanda had a good night and still isn’t in much pain. When I got here she had already been up and walked a bit. Her back is still sore but better and she didn’t mention her neck hurting to bad. She said she got a little sleep but is still sleepy, sleep is never…
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Surgery day
At the hospital Well we didn’t get much sleep but we’re here! Dinner was great last night by the way, it was a neat little place in midtown. It’s restaurant week so they had a few selections from a tasting menu. They took Amanda back to the pre-op room quickly, I’ll join her in a…
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Surgery tomorrow
So today we had pre-op with a doctor and with the hospital. The doctor was what they call the second surgeon. For what Amanda’s is having done they require 2 surgeons to sign off on the surgery. The main doctor doing the procedure is an interventional cardiologist, a doctor that performs catheter based procedures (ie…
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Our journey continues…
I started this page a little less than a year ago as we entered our 10th year on this journey with Amanda’s heart issues. I was hoping and praying that I wouldn’t need to post more updates for a while but that doesn’t seem to be the plan. As we now enter into our 11th…
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Home
Amanda is doing much better this morning. She’s still in pain but it seems to be under control. We saw all the doctors early this morning. They’ve already processed her discharge. Hopefully we’ll be out of here my noon. Amanda is still wanting to come home today. The third day is usually the worst for soreness…
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Procedure day
Schedule moved up They called this morning and asked us to get to the hospital as soon as we could. The schedule change and the procedure has been moved up. We came in they got her registered right away and she’s already in pre-op. She’ll be taken back soon. Just took her back Well so…
