The last 2 weeks

Finally Pete has come to the end of his 3 month recovery program.

The last 2 weeks have been busy ones for us.  Our days began early because we counted on 4 hours of driving back and forth from home to the city. Pete had the regular blood work, chest x-rays, a couple of bronc's, an ECG, spirometry checks, regular clinic visits and the daily physio which continued like clock work.  Then when that was all done we both headed to our work place.  This tends to make one a bit lethargic by evening.......:)!

Pete has been feeling a bit under the weather so they did another bronc to see what's brewing in his lungs and he definitely has a lung infection.  So another antibiotic is added to the concoction of pills, but one of the anti rejection drug doses has been dropped and that is awesome.

This was also the time for Pete to send his letter to the family of the donor.  A difficult, but very grateful letter.

From now on all the blood work is done in Barrhead once a week and the info faxed to the Team and Pete will still be going to the U of A for his clinic visits which will be on Fridays.  We begin with once a week and soon that will taper off to every other week, then once a month, etc..  The four doctors from the transplant team will remain Pete's doctors for everything and we are very thankful for this.

We also went back to the ICU, 3G3 the transplant ward, 5E3 the pulmonary ward, the gym, and to clinic and expressed our thanks for their care and dedication.  I must say that they are pretty excited to see Pete doing so well :) and appreciated us dropping by!

One nice thing about going to clinic is that we will also meet up with our hospital family on a regular bases. The relationships made in gym made the whole time that much more enjoyable and the supportive aspect was and is an important one.  We all have exchanged our contact info just for this very reason.

This will be the last post for now.  The blog will remain open and if anyone wishes to receive an email notice for when there is a new post, then please send me your email address.  I'll post my email address on the blog page.

Now I'm handing this over to Pete to close.  Hugs to all from Margaret.

Hello all. There's not much more I can add to this except to express my thanks to all who supported us in many and various ways. It is very much appreciated. I would especially like to thank Margaret not only for writing this blog but also for being there for me during this entire time. It was a difficult task as for much of the time I was not an easy patient - some of you witnessed that.

Thanks also to the Respirology staff  under whose care I have been for the last 4 1/2 years and also the hospital staff. Their care and dedication to there calling is awesome.

We thank the Lord that he has been with us during this time and allowed success in this endeavor. We pray for His continuing providence. Thanks again to all!   Pete