Meg's Posts

After a wonderful spring weekend with my kids, we are now ready for surgery this morning! It's 5:00 am and we are getting ready to leave for the hospital. Kate will be updating you from now on, and I hope she'll send some photos too! Thanks so much to all you wonderful friends for your loving messages of support. They mean the world to me! See you on the other side of this great adventure!

Finally I know what's happening today! I am doing errands with my kids. At about 8:00 this morning my doctor called to say that the heart was a good match for his other patient and they were going ahead with the transplant! So today someone gets a new heart! Hooray!❤️ About an an hour later they called to say I have been rescheduled for Monday. This means I get to spend unexpected free time with both my kids—a real present for me! So despite a night's lost sleep, I am glad this short delay has happened. Besides, maybe I'll have time to locate the sweatpants for my recovery that I bought and promptly lost in my closet. Thank you you all for the prayers and good wishes. Please keep them coming through Monday! And say a few for that heart recipient who is in the OR right now!

Well, yesterday everything looked good to go for my surgery today. I had my pre-op workup, got my hospital wristband and went home to pack. Both Ned and Kate had arrived and we were set for a lovely dinner at our favorite restaurant. Then came the call: it was possible that I would get bumped for a heart transplant! It was exciting to think that someone else might be getting a new heart today, but at the same time, I was nervous about postponing the surgery for days or perhaps weeks due to scheduling backups. They told me that I should get a call by 9:00 or 9:30 telling me whether to come in at 5:45 am. So, we went ahead with our dinner plans, had a great meal, while we anxiously awaited any news. By 10:30 I called the hospital and talked to several people before being told that they didn't yet know whether they were doing the transplant, and to just plan on coming in at 5:45, but that they would call me. Up at 4:15 to shower with antibacterial scrub and take meds. No call from the hospital! At 5:29 I again called the hospital and the OR nurse said they still didn't know if they were doing the transplant and they would know at 7:30—the original planned time for my surgery. She called back ten minutes later to say that my surgeon, Dr. McKellar, would call me around 8:00 to tell me what was going to happen. So, dear friends, I am going to try to go back to sleep for a couple of hours. I'll keep you posted on the ongoing saga!