please please
please send your good thoughts and aloha and prayers toward the city of
Houston, and specifically toward a sweet little redhead named Trish. this
morning we got The CALL: Methodist Hospital has a gently used pair of lungs
that might be just right for her. we're on our way to the ER in a few minutes.
she's my beloved cousin and... well, please keep her in your thoughts and
prayers. much aloha to all y'all!
June 14, 2014, from
Trish
I GOT THE CALL
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am headed to the hospital.... PRAYERS everyone!!! HOPE this
is my lucky day.. I love you all.... next time you see me, I'll be RUNNING!!! I
can't wait! Love xo
June 14, 2014, from
Kevin
JUST BREATHE
Update...the lungs won't be here for another 2 hours, so we won't know if will
be a go for transplant for 3 hours or so.....
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| Kevin had just arrived from Pflugerville... Trish was so happy! |
hallo darlings. here's (not much of) an update: we're still in ICU, still waiting. they've told us they might be ready for Trish in an hour. the process: first they recover the lungs from her dear donor, may he or she rest in peace, and then they fly 'em here, and then they will take Trish into the OR. it's very likely she won't be out of surgery till midnight
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| The transplant team converges |
June 14, 2014, from
Kevin
JUST BREATHE
UPDATE:: lungs are a go!!!!! They just took Trish to the OR. Surgery should
take around 8 hours. Once we heard it was a go, she was surrounded by about 10
members of the team and she was whisked to the OR in about 4 minutes, time was
of the essence. Keep y'all posted...
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| A kiss before transplant! |
June 14, 2014, from
Caroline
see you soon, dear
sweet Trish
June 14, 2014, from
Caroline
UPDATE: The surgery is OVER!!! The doc said it was "textbook," no complications, completely uneventful. she won't be awake tonight probably... but everything went well. Now comes recovery, and learning how to breathe with those new lungs!!! To all of you from all of us... THANK YOU for your prayers and your love!
UPDATE: The surgery is OVER!!! The doc said it was "textbook," no complications, completely uneventful. she won't be awake tonight probably... but everything went well. Now comes recovery, and learning how to breathe with those new lungs!!! To all of you from all of us... THANK YOU for your prayers and your love!
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| In the waiting room with Kev and Bunny |
here’s a
waiting room shot. YES, THIS IS A BUNNY. no, it is not MY bunny, or Kevin's bunny.
it is one of Trish's devoted supporters and it could not bear to be out of the
loop, so we smuggled it in. it does not yet have a proper name (or for that
matter, a gender). any suggestions???
June 14, 2014, from
Kevin
JUST BREATHE
UPDATE: surgery is complete, no complications! She will be back up in ICU in 30
minutes. They will do a bronch tomorrow to check out the lungs, then they will
wake her up. Thanks everyone for your undying support, still have a long road
to go!
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| Flash cards and post-transplant scribbles |
just a quick
note... Trish is awake!!! she's in quite a bit of discomfort, and mad as
anything because communication is so difficult, but her vital signs are
excellent and everything looks great so far. (she made flash cards to
communicate a few days ago... but expressing specific needs must be done with a
Sharpie, and hand squeezes, and eyerolls.) she's already asked when she'll be
able to walk, and she's told us she's hungry! please continue to send your
thoughts and prayers toward Houston. that's all for now!
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| Trish & Kev, holding hands |
here is an update
about my beloved cousin, Trish Taylor, who had a double lung transplant just
yesterday. she's still in pain, but the breathing tube has been removed and her
little body is learning how to use the new lungs. THANK YOU so much for your
thoughts and prayers and aloha. and please consider being an organ donor!!! it
might be the most precious gift you ever give.
JUST BREATHE
UPDATE: Trish has stepped down to 1L of O2, sat in a chair this morning, 2
chest tubes are out, Neck and groin arterial lines are out. 5 tubes remaining.
She will be out of ICU and in a room this afternoon.
June 16, 2014, from Kevin
June 16, 2014, from Kevin
JUST BREATHE
UPDATE: All in all, a good day. Had a couple of minor bumps in the road, but
they are being addressed and should be over them tomorrow. Lungs are doing
great, vitals are great and she is free from vent and breathing on her own on
4L O2. They will step down the O2 as she progresses. Sparing all the details
(and there are lots of them, believe me!), her condition is par for the course
for 24 hours post. Next tube (and there were many) on the list to be pulled is
the feeding tube, that will be a few days out. Her voice is still gone from the
vent, but she was directing the nurses by writing on a notepad...that's my
Trisheeee.
Surprise, tomorrow
my sister will fly down to visit for a day taking precious time from her
neonatal practice to come out and check on things! Just keeping you guys
updated. There are so many things to say but would take about 6 more pages to
explain what we have gone through just today. Just know that things are going
incredibly well at this point.
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| With Caroline, Kevin's fantastic sister. |
June 16, 2014, from Caroline
We're at Trish's
bedside now. she's down to ONE liter of oxygen! and will soon be moved from ICU
to a private room where she'll have some privacy and a good bit less noise. She still has a feeding tube, and we're not sure when it will be removed. She still
can't talk, because her vocal chords got a bit banged up from the ventilator.
But all of this is normal! She's using her phone to communicate with us (thank
goodness for Swype keyboards). Please don't call or text her yet, or expect
communication from her for a while... just know that she loves you all and is
so, so grateful for your prayers and support. xoxoxoxo from all of us to all of
you!!!
June 17, 2014, from
Caroline
look who took a
little walk this morning!!!
June 17, 2014, from
Kevin
I am getting tired
of grocery shopping, so they had Trish training for HEB duty today, she was
really cruising in the hall so proud of her. May I remind you that this is
three days post. It is a whole lot
harder and intense than it sounds in my posts...Don't know if I could do it.
Hats off to my sweety....
June 17, 2014, from
Caroline
June 17, 2014, from
Kevin
JUST BREATHE
UPDATE: Another day of progress and also more bumps in the road. Lung
transplants are risky and there are many residual issues that can occur, and we
are seeing some of them. We are working through these one day at a time. Still
a long road ahead for Trish... Still keep the prayers coming. The major thing
are her new lungs and they are doing great.
Aloha on a rainy
Houston day! I bunked in Trish's room at the hospital last night, and it was a
fairly sleepless adventure for both of us, unfortunately. Too many meds, too
many BP and pulse oxygen and blood sugar checks, and far too many machines that
go PING!!! None of this is unexpected, just inconvenient and uncomfortable.
Trish continues to be amazing. She's astonishingly optimistic and 'game,'
despite sleep deprivation, the temporary lack of voice, and irritation &
concern over the occasional misstep in her treatments. (Remember, she's managed
her own health very capably for years, so she knows what SHOULD happen!) But
all in all, things are progressing nicely. As she wrote in a note today, 'IS SO
INCREDIBLY HARD... BUT I'M KICKING IT!' and here's the most extraordinary thing
of all: she says that today, for the first time, she finally feels like those
lungs are her own. 'JUST EXCITED!' she writes. 'READY TO RUN!!!' love to all of
you from Team TrishKev... keep prayin'. Xoxoxo
June 18, 2014, from
Kevin
JUST BREATHE
UPDATE: Trish continues to improve. She was cleared of any heart problems that
were showing up earlier and were deemed temporary due to the surgery. Other
little bumps are being smoothed out gradually. She is having a bronch right now
to check the lungs again, biopsy the tissue and flush out residual blood from
the surgery Its a routine check they will be doing periodically for the next
few months.
June 19, 2014, from
Kevin
JUST BREATHE
UPDATE: Trish continues to improve. I have not elaborated on the bumps in the
road we go through because it is a lot to explain and it might scare some of
you when you shouldn’t be. I have prepped myself for the multitude of bumps
that could occur, the ones we are hitting are expected and we are actually
relieved that they have not been major.
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| What a collection! |
Trish’s vocal
chords are the mend and she is sounding a little bit better everyday. It is
still frustrating as she tries to say something but it comes out garbled... She
cannot soothe them with drink or spray yet because of the aspiration risk. Add
a totally dry mouth from the painkillers (which also makes her wonky and cause
hallucinations) numerous antibiotics and anti rejection meds, a rubber hose up
her nose, and you have a recipe that would stop anybody from talking! As I said
before, this is expected to clear up in a few weeks and might require some
speech therapy to help speed the process. I told her that I kinda liked the
'silent Trish'... then I found she still has that mean right hook...
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| Pleur-Evac, for drainage and suction |
My turn for night shift
to give Caroline some much needed rest, Its 12:30 and its time for her
bronchodilator and inhaled antibiotics to eradicate any Pseudomonas and MRSA in
the nasal passages and airway left over from the old lung colonization. Then it
is time to move the IV pole, heart monitor pod and chest tube drainage
reservoirs to the bathroom area so the Trish can do her thing... Hey, I got my
Trishee and it’s another day in paradise!
June 19, 2014, from
Caroline
Above is a very
detailed update from dear Kev, who is on the night shift with Trish at the
hospital. this is pretty graphic, but it's a fantastic explanation of a typical
day in the life of a lung transplant patient, a few days after surgery. our
Trish is the toughest, most determined warrior I have ever known, and Kevin is
a miracle in his own right: her gently fierce protector, her brilliant knight
in shining running shoes. how I love these people.
June 19, 2014, from
Trish
No strength to text
you all, but I am getting better slowly. Caroline Wright and Kevin Willette
have been above and beyond words. I don't know how to thank them for this. And
you all, too. Prayers up. Still so hard communicating and sleeping. Yesterday
was so wonderful to feel the breath for the first time without so much pain. I
want to run now... but the journey is beginning now with rehab. Everything is a
struggle and challenge but I no wuss... You know me better than that. Just
breathe.
June 19, 2014, from
Kevin
JUST BREATHE UPDATE
(5 days post): I cannot count on my fingers and toes the number of IV
antibiotics, antifungal, antirejection bags have gone through Trish Taylor
today. Also the doctors: transplant doctor, transplant surgeon assistant, ENT,
neurologist, resident neurologist, vascular doctor etc. And I have not listed them
all. Trish’s speech is making baby steps forward, general consensus after many
consults and examinations is that it is damage from the ventilator, damage that
is expected to heal, only time will tell. So add speech pathologist to the
doctor list.
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| Trish with her spirometer |
Big news is that
Trish is no longer on oxygen! She is free from the tube that has been her
lifeline for the last year. Also, the barium swallow test went very well. We
will know tomorrow if it will be good enough to remove the feeding tube.
So, progress today.
Remember, it is only 5 days post! Transplantation is not an event but a
journey, one with high roads and low roads, dark caves and beautiful snow
capped mountains. So 'one day at a time' is still our motto. I went out in the
sunshine after 30 hours of artificial light and took a walk in the sunlight
trying to process everything that has happened in the last 5 days. Then I did
what anyone else would do in this situation: I wept, then headed for
Chipotles....
June 20, 2014, from
Trish
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| Selfie! |
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| Kevvie! |
June 20, 2014, from
Caroline
a wee update on our
Trish... after an uneventful night during which she actually got some pretty
decent sleep, she decided to take a little walk again today. she did the
700-ft. dash so fast that my camera couldn't keep up with her! she's working
with a speech pathologist even as I write this, and looking forward to hearing
the formal results of the swallowing study that was done yesterday. we're
hoping that her NG tube will be removed soon. she is jonesing hard for a big
cup of coffee! love to y'all from Team TrishKev!
June 20, 2014, from Caroline
I got permission from Trish to post video for y'all. (o: Please forgive the vertical shot. I was almost as excited as SHE was.
June 20, 2014, from Caroline
I got permission from Trish to post video for y'all. (o: Please forgive the vertical shot. I was almost as excited as SHE was.
June 20, 2014, from
Kevin
Turbo Trish is on
the move!
June 20, 2014, from
Kevin
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| Cousins!!! |
Again, it is difficult to describe the events of the day in detail: this post would become huge and boring if I explained everything that goes on here day by day. Trish and I have battled CF for 21 years and the knowledge I have attained through this period is never apparent to me until I have to explain something. Then it becomes a delicate balance of how much detail to go into without either boring or scaring the receiver of this information. I will do my best to consolidate the events of the day. And to those of you that are somewhat familiar with CF and lung transplantation forgive my brevity.
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| Pleur-Evac leveling off... |
So, more antibiotics,
drugs, rejection meds and chest drainage is the regimen for the weekend, most
of which is similar to a regular "CF tuneup". Trish had her first
consult with the speech pathologist today. She was given exercises to
strengthen her swallow reflexes and speech injury.
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| Prayers. |
Trish's speech is a little better day by day and today was able to communicate with the staff pretty much without using her pad and paper, albeit slowly. Tonight we had so much fun being able to communicate without a lot of frustration, and several times I had her laughing so hard, I instinctively reached for the pulse oximeter to check her oxygen levels and to make sure she wasn’t coughing up blood: then I realized that I didn’t have to. She was simply elated that she could let go and have a belly laugh without lung pain and "browning out", something that she hasn’t been able to do for many years.
They say laughter
is the best medicine, and tonight that proved true. Her speech will get better
with time, but this evening we spoke to each other in smiles and giggles, and
you know, sometimes that’s all anyone really needs to heal.
It is 3:30 and I
hear Trish sleeping like a baby. No wheezing, whistling or rattling of thick
sticky mucous in her lungs. I have gotten used to those noises and the low hum
of the oxygenator and now I hear silent clear airways breathing free. Hey, no
wonder I can’t sleep! Then again, I could listen to that sound all night.
June 21, 2014, from
Trish
The above was a post by
my baby last night. I'm awake this morning due to being wakened by my nurses shift
rounds with iv meds, pain killers and feeding time. I have to take everything
by iv port, feeding tube, shot in the belly or the like, so often I feel like a
walking port... Hey, but that's okay cause I'm walking!!!
June 21, 2014, from Caroline
aloha y'all!
Caroline here, reporting from night shift at the bedside of Ms. Trish Taylor.
It has been a fun-filled day for our Trishie, complete with three laps around
the transplant floor, a visit from a local friend who delivered some lovely
toiletries and a big stack of much-needed jammies (thank you, dear Anne King!),
and hours of spectacularly uncontrollable giggling, with her hysterically funny
husband Kevin Willette and me. if laughter is the best medicine, she's
certainly getting plenty of it! here's a photo of her taken just a bit ago.
check out all those goodies on her IV pole. one of 'em is a delicious bag of
dinner, and the rest are a tasty cocktail of antibiotics and also anti-rejection
meds, to trick her body into accepting her new lungs and giving them a good
home. Trish will have to take anti-rejection meds for the rest of her life.
my sister Nancy
Newbern asked me a few days ago what it means to 'learn to use new transplanted
lungs.' here's a great explanation of the relearning process from a guy who had
a double transplant: 'I literally had to learn how to breathe again; my lungs
were so damaged prior to the transplant that I had a lung capacity of less than
half-a-litre, or around the size of a can of Coke. When your lungs are that
small, you only use the muscles around your shoulders and the top of your chest
to breath; you develop a hunch from over-working muscles that don’t have the
energy to work properly. I had to go back to my old drama school training to
teach myself how to breathe with all the muscles available to me again.'
luckily Trish has exceptional muscles and core strength. even her physical therapist is impressed! she took a two-hour nap earlier this evening and woke up so refreshed that she thought it was morning. let us take a moment and send thoughts of love and gratitude to her donor. we still don't know much about her, and perhaps we never will. what we DO know is that she has given the gift of life to somebody who will absolutely make the most of it. holy cow, I've never seen such JOY as I saw on my pat-pat's face tonight. xoxoxoxo from Houston
luckily Trish has exceptional muscles and core strength. even her physical therapist is impressed! she took a two-hour nap earlier this evening and woke up so refreshed that she thought it was morning. let us take a moment and send thoughts of love and gratitude to her donor. we still don't know much about her, and perhaps we never will. what we DO know is that she has given the gift of life to somebody who will absolutely make the most of it. holy cow, I've never seen such JOY as I saw on my pat-pat's face tonight. xoxoxoxo from Houston
June 21, 2014, from Caroline
Trish-style yoga, one week after her double lung transplant. DANG, Y'ALL. can I get an AMEN???
June 21, 2014, from Kevin
JUST BREATHE UPDATE
(7 days post) It was about this
time of night last week when Trish came out of surgery, receiving her
miraculous new breath of life. HAPPY 1 week LungAversary!
Last night, Trish
'ordered' me to go out and have a 'beer and a burger' and relax. While eating a
huge Angus beef cheeseburger with jalepenos at the Marriott bar, i struck up a
conversation with a guy next to me who was eating a burger and drinking a glass
of wine. Turns out, his wife 'ordered' him to eat and 'relax' also. His wife
had donated her kidney to help save their relative. Since her blood type was
not a match, they participated in a kidney donor network in which you donate
your kidney to a recipient, then eventually this will trickle through the donor
system and eventually help find a kidney for their relative. So they flew from
LA to save the life of a person they did not know in the hopes of saving their
own. There are genuine heroes out there that don't necessarily have to die in
order to donate their organs to save others. Wow, I just went to get a burger
and was humbled by a powerful story. And I am sure it is just one out of
thousands that are happening every day here in this immense hospital complex.
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| Howdy! Here's Turbo Trish. |
Trish did 3 laps
today and also sang "You Are My Sunshine" in her squeaky
"ventilator voice". She finds it quite amusing to hear herself
mispronouncing words, and one sentence can turn into 5 minutes of belly
laughing!
Anne King, a friend
that Trish and Caroline met in Houston is 2 1/2 years post lung transplant and
came to visit and drop off some 'hospital clothes' she didn't need. She is
close to the same size as Trish, so it worked out since Trish needed some extra clothes during her stay. Turns out that Anne was on 'the vent' for a week
after her transplant and had a similar voice injury for over a month. So her
positive reinforcement went a long way today.
Today Trish was
able to pronounce my name "Kevin" for the first time in a week. Now
this might sound like just some more routine progress for the day, but it was
much more of that to me.... I had Trish back physically, but to hear her voice
starting to sound a little more normal made me realize how much I missed the
entire package. The voice that could soothe my soul, the voice that could make
the events of the world seem a hundred miles away: the voice that professed her
love for me daily. How much I missed that voice, and by just mentioning my
name, I fell in love with her all over again. Yikes, I need to get some sleep,
these updates are starting to turn into a romance novel! Breathe easy my
friends....
June 22, 2014, from
Trish
Day 7....read what
my hubby posted. I don't know when I had a better time just LOL... I mean LAUGHING
OUT LOUD! A real belly laugh before entailed laughing for 30 seconds and
coughing for 5 minutes. Not now though. I love it!
June 22, 2014, from
Kevin
JUST BREATHE UPDATE
(8 days post) The power of a hug cannot be measured by any man-made device. It
is only felt deep within the soul. And when it happens, it is magical. This is
the first real hug Trish and I shared since 3 weeks ago. When I arrived in
Houston last Saturday, she was horizontal and being prepped for surgery. Since
then she has been surrounded by bandages, needless, tubes, and in pain, so hugs
were out of the question. Today we finally reconnected, and it was beyond
words. I felt like I had been suffering withdrawal from a drug and I finally
got my `fix`. The warm rush I felt as her arms surrounded me was intense and I
instantly felt relieved. In that very instant, I knew that whatever challenges
lay ahead of us at this point didn't matter. I could feel her new lungs rising
up and down within my arms, and her hug injected its heavenly power directly
into my heart and soul.
How do these
updates suddenly turn into sappy romance novel? Is it because of many years of
Trish forcing me to watch romantic comedies? Lack of sleep? A potential romance
novelist emerging? I don't know and why is not important (keep that thought).
The day was full of
laughter and exercise.
Trish is doing
great with her cardio laps around the transplant ward. She cruised faster than
a Wal-Mart shopper on payday. She is still making small strides with her speech
and her voice exercises usually end up in fits of laughter, but it is the
strong fighter who can find humor in the most frustrating situations. We may
never know exactly the cause, or even if it will resolve completely over time,
but like I said before, `why` is not important...it is what it is, the bumps in
this incredible journey are risky and will always be a challenge to our
patience and faith. Remember, we did not choose to take this journey, but there
was a divine plan for us to take this trip for reasons that will be presented
to us as time goes on. But for now, the trishkev team stays focused on the very
miracle of LUNGS LUNGS LUNGS! They are giving the breath of life to my Trish:
she is walking fast and laughing hysterically.
And her hugs still
work like you wouldn't believe!
June 22, 2014, from
Trish
Nothing to be said
but, Amen.
June 23, 2014, from
Caroline
ninth day
post-transplant... and a hug from a bunny is a beautiful thing. we are holding
our own here in Houston, in every way. much love to all of you
June 23, 2014, from
Kevin
JUST BREATHE UPDATE
(9 days post) Bronchoscopy for Trish today, this one more painful than the
last. The night before, they inject what seemed to be a liter of contrast fluid
into her feeding tube which dumps it all into the upper intestine. As you can
imagine, it is quite uncomfortable and sets you up for several sprints to the
bathroom (of course along with the IV pole and chest tube drainage apparatus).
That plus getting blood sugars under control (because of Prednisone and CF
related diabetes), and that made for a sleepless night. They also planned to
insert a J (feeding) tube, but there is a certain threshold of poking and
prodding where you eventually say 'enough is enough'. So the procedure was
postponed until tomorrow and Trish got some much needed rest from the
"laboratory rat" treatment. So some sleep and a little more laughter
was the order of the day. And you thought you had the Monday blues!
"So where is
the sappy stuff? We want sap" you might be asking?
<sap on>
After a uncomfortable night, it wasn't turning out to be the best of days. But when you least expect it, God has a way of touching you and revealing himself in ways we would never expect. You only have to open yourself up to seeing the signs that are put in front of you.
After a uncomfortable night, it wasn't turning out to be the best of days. But when you least expect it, God has a way of touching you and revealing himself in ways we would never expect. You only have to open yourself up to seeing the signs that are put in front of you.
Today's magic
moment unexpectedly arrived about 7:00 AM. While waiting for the bronch, a new
nurse (an outstanding Ex-Marine) was coming on shift and he did what no other
nurse had done. He first introduced himself, outlined the drug regimen for the
day, then he said something in his very low resonant Ex-Marine voice that no
other nurse had said to her:
"Would you
like to listen to your lungs?"
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| Eric, the wonderful nurse |
....and I thought a
breakfast taco would be the highlight of the early morning!
Although the day
brought pain from the Bronchoscopy and tiredness from the night before, I could
still see a part of this morning's moment in Trish's eyes...And everything else
in the world became unimportant..
Now folks, you just
can't make this stuff up 8)
<sap off>
June 24, 2014, from
Caroline
aloha from Team
TrishKev, and here's a photostudy I call "therapeutic calligraphy with IV
pump and bunny."
June 24, 2014, from
Kevin
JUST BREATHE UPDATE
(10 days post)
These are the times
that try mens souls
When Thomas Paine
wrote this sentence in his series of pamphlets entitled "The American
Crisis", he was trying to inspire the American Colonists during the
Revolutionary War. Little did he know that his quote would be used millions of
times to inspire and comfort those who are facing situations where the outcome
is unknown and a great deal of patience is needed. When you see your loved one
going through a lot of pain, our patience is tested at a higher level. The
journey to transplant city is full of detours, a lot of them are temporary and
painful , but eventually you enter the gates. There are some less fortunate
that don’t make it and some that do, but stay only for a while. So, the bumps
in the road are many and keeping your eye on the prize is a trying time for
both the patient and the caregiver.
It was a difficult
day for our Trish. The bronch yesterday caused a pneumothorax, so the chest
tube will stay in a little longer. The anti rejection meds levels were starting
to ramp up and potassium levels went, down. This caused tremors in Trish's
cheeks (a little scary but sort of amusing). So IV potassium and magnesium were
prescribed to raise the levels… tremors… gone! Another strange but expected
event in transplant land. Then prepped and wheeled down. to surgery for J tube
installment until they decided to wait for the pnuemo to heal. SO, back up to
the room. THEN down to get an MRI to see what caused her speech injury. Turns
out that she suffered some tiny strokes during surgery… Neurologist came by and
said they expect a full recovery in a few months.
WHEW OKAY…… JUST BREATHE…… TEAM TRISHKEV ASSEMBLE!
WHEW OKAY…… JUST BREATHE…… TEAM TRISHKEV ASSEMBLE!
Although the
prognosis was the same as for the previous diagnosis, it was difficult to hear
the 'stroke' word. The miracle of new lungs took a backseat for a while in
order for some tears to flow and stabilize the stress that was building for the
last 12 hours. Trish has always called me her 'rock', and I somehow was able to
maintain that role through all of this without a meltdown. I have been a member
of the lung transplant facebook group for a few months, and the personal
stories of incredible awe-inspiring triumphant recovery after the most serious
of complications have thoroughly prepared me for just about any situation.
Thank you Joanne Schum for making things easier for all those currently on this
journey.
So how do you find
a sappy moment in all of that, you ask? I don't know, but will try… I was the
steadfast soldier today, the one who maintains his stature in the heat of
battle. The one who exudes confidence and is an inspiration to his troops
during rough times. I was the rock today, and team trishkev pushed through the
fog. And I am this soldier today and every day only because of my Trish…
Yes, we are in
transplant city now, and we plan to stay!
June 24, 2014, from Caroline
today it rained in
Houston. sometimes it takes a little rain to make us appreciate the sunshine.
please continue to keep my beloved cousin Trish in your thoughts and prayers.
we had a couple of setbacks today, y'all, but our little team has resolved to forge
ahead. we will continue to welcome each new day as a gift, whether it is filled
with shadows, storms, or sunshine... or a mysterious, beautiful combination of
all three.
June 24, 2014, from
Trish
Hey, it's me in here... I just can't get my words out... but I CAN maintain my balance and outwardly, charming attitude, hopefully with the grace of God, through it all. All shall be well!
Hey, it's me in here... I just can't get my words out... but I CAN maintain my balance and outwardly, charming attitude, hopefully with the grace of God, through it all. All shall be well!
TO BE CONTINUED...
