Good Spirits

We have just returned from the hospital, and Mary is in great spirits. The surgery is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. but could be earlier. The operation will take 6 to 8 hours, so it will be a long day. Mary will be kept under full sedation for about 24 hours, which originally she was told 3 days. They say 7-10 days and she could be home. The doctor said the liver was in excellent shape. A little boy from Memphis is supposed to get part of the liver, but they were having a hard time reaching them so it might go to someone else. I can't understand why you would be unreachable if your child was waiting on a transplant, but then again, who am I?
Say a special prayer that the transplant is successful and that Mary does not have a rejection problem. We are hopeful that everything is going to go smoothly, but we still know that this is not like having a hang nail removed. UAB has a tremendously successful rate of success on liver transplants, but it is not every day that someone close to us is added to the statistics! We are so thankful that the day has arrived.