So.. I'll try to keep this short~ I did about 3 months of testing for transplant work up, to make sure I was healthy enough to have the surgery. I had to have: a drug test, pulmonary test, bone scan, treadmill, heart cath, MRI's, CT's, chest x-rays, colonoscopy, see a dietitian, psychologist, psychiatrist, social worker.. I was finally cleared for transplant and went on the Donor List on April 2, 2008.
I'll skip ahead to the day I got the call--At the time I worked for Plainfield Schools. I was an assistant with developmental preschool.
I got "The Call" Memorial Day night, at 11:45 p.m. The kids just went to bed, and Dave and I were still up. The phone rang and it said I U Hospital. I just stared at the screen and I said, "Hello" and the other end said "Lynn this is Kristy at IU hospital, and we have a Liver for you". I said "What did you just say', she repeated it, I had her on speaker phone so Dave could hear. While I was on the phone with her, I started calling people on my cell phone. -- She said you have 20 minutes to get to the hospital! Britton yelling from her room, "Can you take that off speaker, I'm trying to sleep." Dave went to tell her "Get up, your mom just got a liver"~ Brooke had a friend spending the night so we got them both up and had to take them to her friends house. Brooke had a test that day. I had nothing packed so I threw some stuff together and off we went. I was a nervous wreck!!
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