Angie & Jim

Catheterization at Lucile Packardby Jim

Hello! It’s been a while and we have some catching up to do here, but first things first: Angie is going in for a routine catheterization today. We’re currently waiting to finish up with the nurse to get her all ready to go. We’re at the children’s hospital for the cath, which always makes it nice. Not that the adult hospital doesn’t treat you well, but the level of care and attention is just different at a children’s hospital.

Angie is scheduled for the second cath of the day, so it shouldn’t be much longer before she’s ready to go in. The doctors said there is a chance she’ll be staying overnight, but probably not. After you have a cath, they require that you lie flat for 4 hours. It’s kinda boring, but we can handle that. We should be done in time that we could come home after that, but if they want to observe her afterwards, we brought an overnight bag for Angie.

We’re hoping that the results are just “about the same” as last time about 16 months ago. If they are, we’ll be staying the course, if not, we’ll have to discuss some other options. Thanks for tuning in and for your support and prayers. We’ll post once more today if everything goes well after its all done. We’ll (hopefully) post an update about how things are going on the transplant list in a few days to catch you up how things have been in the last 12 months or so.