Along for the Ride

Greetings, fine friends!  Look at this!  Two updates on the same day?!?!  Yup. Today my mom and I went down to UTSW to see the infectious diseases doctor for a follow-up.  He still wants me to try to track down some documentation of my vaccinations from when I was a kid.  Apparently, I have antibodies for mumps and rubella, but not measles.  With the increase in anti-vaccine parents over recent years, he's concerned about me returning to the classroom without documentation of my vaccines.  Basically, if a kid comes in my room and happens to have skipped his/her vaccines, I could be in serious trouble.  So tomorrow I'm calling my university to see if they have any student records that would show my vaccines.  Public Service Announcement: Keep your vaccine records.  You just never know when you might need them. He also shared that - right after transplant - I'll be given three doses of an IV medication that will essentially wipe out al...

Hello there! The last few weeks have been somewhat uneventful at Chez Penny, but I do have some updates to share. First, this is pretty much the best way to depict my state of mind since being placed on the transplant list. Yep, that's right.  Every call results in a frantic reach for the phone.  Typically, it's just an automated voice offering me a free cruise or life insurance.  I have no idea how they get around the nomorobo, but alas... they do. So yeah, I'm pretty much just waiting. Mike was contacted and told to start his donor testing.  He went in at the beginning of July for glucose monitoring testing.  Unfortunately, his results came back slightly elevated.  They discussed his case at the transplant committee meeting yesterday and decided to deny him as a donor.  So today I got a letter saying that they have exhausted all of my potential living donors. Mike isn't giving up.  Even though he's already lost 30 pounds, he's dete...