False alarm

It has been a while since I have written on this blog. Things have been just in wait mode. But yesterday I got the call that they had a potential heart for me. I went down to the UW hospital checked in, had blood drawn, and waited. They said it would be 4 to 5 hours until they know for sure. A surgeon had to actually look at the heart and say if it was a go. I guess the heart had to be transported via air to the university. I got there around 1pm. At 830 I got the bad news. They said that the heart was not usable. The heart had a contusion and they did not want to risk it. For those of you with a working heart, should you get a contusion (bruise) on it you would recover. The problem for transplant is that the heart with a bruise does not do well when it has to be on ice and out of the body in between transplant.

I am disappointed that the transplant didn’t go through but I am positive that the right one is out there. I also feel bad for the family of the gentleman who died and started this process. They could not give me any information about the possible donor but I did find out that the donor was a bicyclist hit by a car. I also do not like the fact that I am waiting for something like this to happen so that I might get a heart.