Lindsay is positive that your good thoughts helped somehow.

[lindsaydotcom]

Thanks so, SO much for your good thoughts related to this post. I just got this email from Hadley:

Daddy went into surgery on Saturday night and emerged Sunday morning, chock full of blood transfusions and a NEW LIVER!!! He's doing incredibly well (though he's still a very sick guy, since it's huge surgery even for someone who starts out healthy!), but the new liver is actually working and his kidneys (which were failing, due to the liver failure) are starting to wake up. They're going to take him off of dialysis and the respirator this afternoon -- talk about a series of miracles.

I'm so glad to be here for this... My post-masters-degree vacation couldn't have been better timed. Dad's body and the liver donor were both kind enough to arrange his acute illness and the transplant to fit my travel plans! Depending on how his recovery goes, I may stay a bit longer than originally planned, but I have lots of flexibility, which is great.

Well thank you so much for your emails, calls, and positive thoughts, and please keep them going for Dad and the UH team as this promises to be a bumpy ride. I'm so grateful for all of you, and your support and love, and I'm also thankful to the family of the donor, whoever was gracious and generous enough to let us have this chance for my dad. At least it finally feels like we're going in the right direction!

Yay! :D

Comments

[2happy4most.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear it went well!

[nso313.livejournal.com]

That's great news!! Still keeping them in my thoughts.

I've been meaning to ask you about the woman that you posted a part of her blog in here. Has she updated? Did they end up marrying?

[ves-heill.livejournal.com]

Yup, she married, and just started posting again. Here's from something recent:

We're waiting for our pizza, NY style, and I'm rubbing my mosquito bitten sunburned arms. [her husband] is distracting me, making fun of me, asking me if I'm writing nice things on my blog. I gave him a face and he laughed telling me he loved me through his giggle. We're coming home tomorrow and hopefully I'll get my wedding post together very soon.

I keep reminding myself that this is a happy moment and I deserve this and to think about anything else besides how amazing my life is right now would be wrong, very wrong.

If you want the link just email me. ;)

[nso313.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Emailed your gmail account!

[ves-heill.livejournal.com]

I never got the email (?).

[nso313.livejournal.com]

you can just email it to nikkio8040@msn.com. thanks!

[ves-heill.livejournal.com]

Done!

[nso313.livejournal.com]

LOL! I didn't get your email. This is so weird!

[athenasmommy.livejournal.com]

YEAH!!!!!!

[paisley-days.livejournal.com]

Such great news!!
I hope things continue to go smoothly.

[upennmama.livejournal.com]

I have been praying for him. So glad things are going better.