Still Here...More Procedures

I will give Dan a break and post this myself....

We were glad for the good news on Friday...no rejection and no e-coli. The kidney however has not fully kicked in so the creatnine is still high and the Transplant Team has taken a "wait and see" attitude. (This happens with ATN.) Also the infection is almost all gone which is good because infection is what scares me.

Meanwhile they want to do a couple of minor procedures to protect against infection and help speed up the recovery from ATN. I think he will be in at UNMC another week.

So I have decided to go back to school in Kearney and return to Omaha on the week-end. Then maybe we can have Dan dismissed to cooperative care where I will be the primary caregiver (they do have a nurse on the floor.)

I certainly hate to leave him....but I need to get back to school and he does have a pretty good set-up here. Everyone (and I mean everyone) knows him plus our new friends Ann and Jerry said they would look in on him. (Jerry is also on Clarkson's fifth floor.) Dan has his laptop and a new Dean Koontz book...he even brought his own electric blanket because he is always so cold and his own TV remote because he doesn't like the hospital's remotes. He's also got a private room because of the infection concerns.

So that is the plan...and it is subject to change.