Feeling Like a Chemistry Experiment

There's not enough happening (thankfully) to give updates daily, so here's the highlights of the past week. Last Monday was John's first visit to the transplant clinic for lab work. We left the house at 8:00 a.m. for a 10:00 a.m. appoinment and just made it. Things went smoothly after that and we were home by noon. We had just finished lunch and John had gone upstairs to nap when he got a call to come back to Georgetown Hospital to the emergency room because his magnesium levels were dangeroulsy low. Levels this low created the potential for seizures. So we drove back into D.C. and spent seven hours in the emergency room while he received 4 grams of magnesium intervenously. We were a little surprised that they would send us to the germ infested emergency room but there weren't any other options. They did put us in a room with a closed door and they made him wear a mask. We got home at 11:30 p.m. that night.

The rest of the week went pretty well. John's been walking about five miles a day - three in the morning and two in the afternoon. (Brady's getting thin!) He's added a little socializing with his walking also. It's a good germ free way to talk to people. His Saturday morning running group even ran over Saturday to walk three miles with him.
Later in the week and yesterday he started to feel the side effects of his blood pressure medications and his anti rejection drugs both of which have been adjusted. He told our daughter yesterday, he feels like a chemistry experiment. I'm sure he'll have more days like that until it all settles out.

Thanks for all of your cards, emails, texts, books and movies. He's on his third book now.

At the clinic yesterday, the physician's assistant said he could go back to regular activity, (work,church etc.) beween six and eight weeks after the surgery. We're two weeks into that!