{"id":1627,"date":"2024-09-04T16:46:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T00:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2024-09-04T16:46:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T00:46:55","slug":"a-day-of-training-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/04\/a-day-of-training-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day of Training & Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today was a long day at Stanford. Jim took off work to join me for trainings with the Clara (cardiac transplant coordinator), Tiffany (a transplant social worker), and Christina (a pre-transplant dietician). Everyone has been super kind and considerate. Last time we did this, I felt like I was at the bottom of a waterfall; this time around, I felt almost like I was interviewing for a job. They need to know that we are (as Clara charmingly put it:) “In it to win it” – meaning that we are emotionally and mentally prepared and are willing to be compliant in the recovery process and beyond. They also want us to know and accept the worst-case scenarios before going in. Since we did the evaluation five years ago, a lot of the information was already familiar, but there were a few surprises. My family will balk, but I was crestfallen to learn that post-transplant I will have to give up raw sushi – and Jim was even wearing his sushi socks today! Good thing I also love tempura rolls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I took a “Frailty Test,” which sounds a lot fancier than it actually was. They checked my grip strength (26kg thank-you-very-much) and balance and tolerance of quickly standing and sitting over and over again. Then we went to the phlebotomy lab and had a whole bunch of blood drawn. I’m glad I was already done with the frailty test, because I felt a little woozy after that. But then we got some amazing Greek food that perked me right up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The last several weeks have been full of paperwork, as well as routine care appointments to be sure I’m overall as healthy as possible: PCP physical, dental checkup, eye exam, mammogram, women’s health stuff, PFTs (perfusion tests to check out my lungs), ultrasound of my extremities, hep-b vaccine, abdominal CT scan…etc. Now we’re focusing on transplant-specific stuff. Last week, I met with my hepatologist and also one of the liver transplant surgeons; tomorrow, I meet with the cardiac transplant surgeon. This Friday I’m going to Lucile Packard (the children’s side of Stanford) for a pre-op before my catheterization there on September 16th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The sushi socks I gave Jim \u2764\ufe0f<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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All the blood they took out of me<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was a long day at Stanford. Jim took off work to join me for trainings with the Clara (cardiac transplant coordinator), Tiffany (a transplant social worker), and Christina (a pre-transplant dietician). Everyone has been super kind and considerate. Last time we did this, I felt like I was at the bottom of a waterfall; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[8,14,275],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8WrW-qf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1636,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions\/1636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}