We Got The Call !!!!!!

At 9:48 p.m. (Wednesday-4/29) I received a call from Will from Stanford stating they have lungs for Lindsay and wanted to know if she was with me. I let him I know I wasn't so he said he will call her and call me back if he couldn't get a hold of her. He called me back when he got her voicemail and wanted me to try to get a hold of her. Well let me just express that was a hard task I was ever assigned! I called Lindsay about 10 times before I called others to see if she was with them. After my Dad, Brother, Susan, Sid I had no word of where she is. At this point I was heading over to her house to pick her up and take her to Stanford. When I get to her house I noticed her truck was there and I was a little more calm thinking she was there. Yeah right. No one answered the door, no one answered their phones. I started to panic, but Susan was helping me track down Lindsay.

About an hour later 10:49 p.m. I get a call from Lindsay herself asking what do I want. I let her know we got a call and she needed to get her butt home and then head off to Stanford. At this point there were tears, laughs, fears and relief. We headed to Stanford and arrived at 11:30 p.m. They placed her in a hospital room and ran some tests. With the rest of the gang arriving in her little room, we had to take over the waiting room because when you travel with Lindsay there is a large crowd.

We Finally got word that she will be taken to the O.R. about 3:00 a.m. but as soon as 3 rolled around we were still waiting. 3:30 a.m. or so we got the word we had to get Lindsay ready for transplant. Brie scrubbed her down and we were off. The gentleman rolling her to the O.R. said he has never seen this many people follow a patient to the O.R. (We broke a record!) I knew I couldn't do anything any further so I knew I had to leave it up to God to take over. (Boy did he have some plans.) We all said our 'farewells' and 'see you laters' and we shared some more tears and laughs.

At our surprise, the Dr. came out about 2 hours later to tell us that the right donor lung was perfect, but the left lower lobe was not working properly and he didn't want to go with the transplant. We were warned about 'dry runs' (showing up to the hospital and not going through with the transplant due to many reasons) so we were prepared for that in a way, but we were hoping for the transplant. We now have some practice on how to coordinate phone calls and what to bring. I just hope Lindsay answers her phone on the 1st try! ;) We still had to wait in the waiting room for Lindsay to come off her sedatives and that took another 2 hours. She was released around 7:30 a.m. (Thursday-4/30) and we were all on our way home to get some rest, or for some go to work.

Please keep her in your prayers!
And thank you to all who came and supported. Lindsay can't do this alone and she is thankful God has put you in her life! I loved the snacks in the lobby, they kept me going! Thank You!