We're well into week two here at UCSF. The weather has been unseasonably perfect - not too cold, sunny and clear - the accomodations (for me, at least) have been great, and the progress has been slow and steady.
Dennis should be going home very soon. The infection that has plagued him now seems to be retreating. Doctors are still confident that they'll be able to get Dennis through this and list him for the transplant, but the plans keep changing and becoming more complicated.
Turns out that mild heart attack was the result of a 90% blockage and an aneurysm in the same artery. The transplant surgeons are thinking that they can have a heart surgeon come in during the transplant to do a bypass. Wow. All this, of course, has to be presented to the committee, which meets today. We've been busy making sure that those doctors presenting the case know that Dennis is ready and willing...it's not like we have any alternatives. It's interesting to me that the outlook of the UCSF doctors is so different from the Davis docs who seemed to be intimidated by all the complications. Here, they're looked at as challenges, not brick walls. What's that line you always hear from motivational types - there are no challenges, only solutions?
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