Janet came out of surgery at 2:45 am last night. The transplant so far seems to be a success. Janet’s husband called me this morning to say that the lung seemed to be working well, that her oxygen levels were great and that they were planning on removing the breathing tube this morning.
This is a great day!
It’s Janet’s new lung birthday!
I don’t know why her transplant team decided to do a single lung transplant and not a double. Right now isn’t the time to ask such questions. The first priority is to get Janet up and around and start to wean her from oxygen. Later we’ll find out all of those details.
Janet has a long road ahead of her. Often people think that getting a transplant is like replacing an auto part. You just take out the organ that doesn’t work and slip one in that does. It doesn’t quite work that way. While we’re all hoping that this transplant will give Janet many, many more years, she has essentially traded one disease for another. She’ll have to fight off organ rejection, infections etc. She’ll need medications the rest of her life to keep her body from rejecting her new lung. But given how difficult it had become for Janet to breathe, I think she was happy to make the trade.
Janet’s a real go getter and not being able to do anything as simple as walking across a room or talking on the phone without getting out of breath was so frustrating for her. Now she’s got a chance at a more normal life again.
Please keep up the support for Janet!
This is a great day!
It’s Janet’s new lung birthday!
I don’t know why her transplant team decided to do a single lung transplant and not a double. Right now isn’t the time to ask such questions. The first priority is to get Janet up and around and start to wean her from oxygen. Later we’ll find out all of those details.
Janet has a long road ahead of her. Often people think that getting a transplant is like replacing an auto part. You just take out the organ that doesn’t work and slip one in that does. It doesn’t quite work that way. While we’re all hoping that this transplant will give Janet many, many more years, she has essentially traded one disease for another. She’ll have to fight off organ rejection, infections etc. She’ll need medications the rest of her life to keep her body from rejecting her new lung. But given how difficult it had become for Janet to breathe, I think she was happy to make the trade.
Janet’s a real go getter and not being able to do anything as simple as walking across a room or talking on the phone without getting out of breath was so frustrating for her. Now she’s got a chance at a more normal life again.
Please keep up the support for Janet!
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