heart transplant

[medtronic of borg]

Hi everyone,
Remember the friend of mine in KC who had the same Dx as I, but already on the donor list. well on tue. she got a new heart. I am so glad for her even though I know we are not out of the woods yet. But she is up and eating real food as of today.

I was surprised however at myself. Not only was I glad for her to have gotten beyound the waiting period. But I felt a twing of jeliousy . I wasn't expecting that. At the same time I felt fear of a rejection. But they watch for that very closely.

Still isn't this great news!!! I think her husband is about fried though.

Med

 

[Ross]

Excellent news indeed. I'm sure her husband will need some meds when this is all over with.

 

[Nancy]

When Joe was in the hospital in Jan, 2003, he was in the Heart Transplant Unit, although he wasn't there to get one. But we saw quite a few transplant folks who came back to visit some of the nurses and to get tested. They looked well. It was an impressive unit, to say the least.

 

[catwoman]

Med:

Good luck to your friend and her family.

Travel writer for my newspaper had a heart transplant at Texas Heart Institute, can't remember when that was. Don't remember the specific problems he had prior to surgery. Did OK with the transplant. Just remember his having to stay down in Houston for a very long time, just in case a heart was available.

When I was in ICU after my OHS, woman in bed next to me had kept carrying on conversation with nurses. She was able to get out of bed and walk around, which amazed me. I figured she was "just" another OHS patient.
Found out later that she was a heart-lung transplant patient. Apparently needed lung transplant and I think such transplants are more successful if it is with the heart.
This woman sounded pretty healthy to me at the time. Of course, I was just hours of the OR.

 

[bvdr]

Med,

A business associate of ours had a heart transplant about 3 years ago as a result of almost back to back myocardial infarctions and severe CAD. He is late 50s/early 60's.

The first time I saw him after his surgery I almost didn't recognize him. Instead of looking gray and drawn, he was pink and smiling.

It must be so hard to wait as long as some people have had to do. Hope is very powerful.

 

[Bryan B]

My ex-wife used to work for COPA (carolina organ procurement assoc). I got involved with a bowling league with a bunch of transplant recepients. I ended up becoming friends with a guy who had a heart transplant. We bowled together and I gave him free golf lessons (I was a golf pro at the time). If you didn't know it, you would never know he had a transplant. It was a great experience to meet these people. They were all so grateful for the 2nd chance they had gotten to live a normal life again.