The new lungs finally came!

Ok. So this is Brie....Lindsay's super awesome friend :). I wanted to update all of you about Lindsay and her NEW LUNGS from my point of view! Yesterday I was at work and I got a call from Lindsay at 11:49 a.m. and the first thing she said to me was "Brie Allen" and I knew right then that she got the call. She asked me to come get her from work so around 3:15 I picked her up and we drove to Stanford. When we got here they were expecting us and they told her to shower up and scrub real good :) They told us that she would be taken to surgery at around 10 p.m. Friday night (5/1). It was just her and I for a while and so we got to hang out and just spend some quality time together which was so nice! Her spirits were high and we both had a good feeling about these lungs! So while we were waiting so many people came in. First it was nurses, then it was a social worker, then a woman who was doing research, and then 2 very nice doctors came in and talked to us! They told us that the donor was a high risk patient which means that he was under a certain age (I believe 25) and that he was at higher risk for diseases then someone who was older (hence 'high risk') and that they ran a bunch of blood tests and other testing on him that all came back negative! Everyone was very optimistic! At around 7 or so all the other friends and family started trickling in until it got to the point where there were 18 of us!!!!!!!! We were all hanging out having a good time, keeping Lindsay's spirits high and then they came in at 10 and told us it wasn't going to happen until about 12:30. Lindsay was bummed especially because she was STARVING. So after more waiting they came back in at about 12:30 and said it would be another half hour to an hour because there was a trauma.....so more waiting! Then, finally they came (at 2 a.m.!) and wheeled her away! We were all so excited and so our entourage followed her! Through the halls we traveled, up one floor, and through some doors and then came time to say "we'll see you soon and we love you". This was the hardest part :(. We all waited in the waiting room and at approximately 3:15 a.m. Jonathon (the nurse) came in and told us it was a go! We were excited...and exhausted! We all slept for a while and waited....and waited....and waited...and waited some more. We got updates every so often and finally at around 10:30 the doctor came and told us that everything went GREAT! He said her old lungs looked like crap. They were filled with pus, super gross and they said that it was definitely time for new ones. I got to go in and see her and she looks AMAZING! I was so amazed at how responsive she was just 2 hours after surgery. She squeezed my hand, tried to smile, moved her head, opened her eyes.....anything you could think of she did! She truly is a loved girl.
Breathe Easy Lindz :) I love you!