Lee is LISTED!!!

This is a GOOD day.  Lee has been officially placed on the Heart Transplant List with the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix.

Today we met with one of our transplant coordinators (an RN who specializes in heart and kidney transplantation.)  We reviewed the procedures, requirements and expectations.  Lee will be listed as STATUS 2.  Please see the previous post, "THE LIST" for an explanation of what that means.

We will be followed at the Mayo Clinic and the Phoenix VA Cardiologist.  For the most part, we will alternate between the two and be seen approximately every 6 weeks.  It is a long road and we will be keeping close to home in Buckeye, AZ.  We have amazing next door neighbors who keep an eye on us both.  We have a new church home & have found some new, supportive friends there too.  We are blessed.

Please keep us in your prayers.  We appreciate them more than we can say.

2 Corinthians 1:11 "and you are helping us by praying for us."


ORGAN DONATION

We hope all of you reading this will consider organ donation.  In the previous post, THE LIST, there is quite a bit of information on how the procedure works.  Nearly everyone can be an organ donor.  Even LEE, is an organ donor.  Of course, he couldn't donate his heart, but his other organs, tissue, etc. can be donated.  

Of note:  heart donation can only come from someone 40 years old or younger (with some exceptions, up to 45 years old)  It is important to encourage our younger generation to be organ donors.  Other organs do not have the same age restrictions.  

In Arizona, please register online at:  https://www.azdonorregistry.org/

In Washington and Oregon:  http://www.donatelifenw.org/content/donor-registry