My internet friend is home from the hospital and doing much better.
She still doesnt have all the answers she wants but....
Late last night our friend who was #2 of the transplant list received his new heart.
According to his son the MD said the surgery was "phenomenal" and John is doing very well.
Unfortunately the son cannot go up and visit because he has come down with an awful cold.
Full enough to put things into perspective and make me count my blessings.
Youngest grandson left today on his first solo plane ride to Southern CA, for a weekend of waterpolo camp. I am just the grand mother - I can only imagine how my daughter is feeling! Luckily he is with team mates and not completely alone.
Our friends is in Stanford still. Wednesday they places an intra aortic cardiac balloon pump. And he is on the heart transplant list - supposedly #2 so that shows how dire his need is. And I guess 70 isnt that old anymore if they are willing to do a transplant. But other then this heart failure, he really doesnt have any health issues.
And today I found out a "friend" on a Knitting list who hadnt been feeling well earlier in the week was taken by ambulance to a hospital (and she lives in the back of nowhere so wonder how long that ride was) because of breathing issues - and she was found to be in heart failure. What are the odds of something like this happening? From what I know, this is new onset. For our other friend it has been years.
And now we are shuffling around trying to figure out dog care. Small potatoes in the bug picture of thngs. But we are supposed to fly down next weekend for a waterpolo tournament with grandson and his mom. And our very dependable dog sitter is the younger son of our friend - who is divorced, and has 2 sons who are dependant upon him in different ways. So with not knowing what is going on, we are trying to figure out contingency plans. Worst comes to worst I would stay home. The plane tickets are not refundable but we could eventually use the credit for the one....
We had hoped our other daughter could take the dog - we could drop him off and pick him up - but her new lease says she cannot have any more pets at all at the house....
Oh well, this will work out. And I guess he will be going camping with us this summer! We had already planned on taking him on the short May camping trip as an intro back into camping.....but we have a 2 week trip to Hawaii coming up in September.....everything booked. Everything paid for..... But you know what, things will work on in whatever way they will work.
\So prayers please for our friends who are hospitalized.
We had a very very happy Easter!
Even with the gas prices, the girls drove down, and we had a lovely Easter meal with them and all 5 grandkids!
And you know what? I did not think to take a single photo!
The food was delicious - we made enough peirogies - and the tri tip was tender - the sausage was good. Not much of the asparagus was eaten and now we have LOADS of asparagus left over....
The chocolate bundt cake and the carrot cake were good! And DD #1 brought a lemon merangue pie.
Hubby made a donut run that morning and sent them home with donuts.
Grandson #2 was prompted to share with us that his name is going to be on a plaque at the HS because his GPA is 3.5!!!!!!!!! This is the one who has spent more summers in summer school than I want to count!
Grandson #3 drove all the way down here! The longest drive he has done - and he was tired out! Mom drove home!! LOL
Even the dog got exercise - Grandson #4 ran him all around the backyard and then Grandsons #1 and #2 took him for a walk! Which was a good thing since he did not get to go for one the day before because of our cooking and the storm!
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