Friday April 21

I've been in the hospital at LGH since before Easter.  We have been in a holding pattern basically to see what the next step is.  

Around lunch the nurse took my vitals and I had a slight fever 100.7.   She came back about a half hour

Later and it spiked up to 102.4.  We called the transplant coordinator and they said I needed to go

back to Pittsburgh.  They were transporting me that evening.  We got news around 7pm that they didn't have any available beds and that we would have to wait until tomorrow.  

Well...today is Friday.  I waited all day for news on being transported.  Mom came in in the morning and hung out with me and we had lunch.  She stayed for a couple of hours to keep me company.  She left around 2 or so.  She had to go home and get ready for work.  After she left we finally got news that they had a bed available.  They just needed to coordinate transport.  They said it could take a few hours/. I waited a while:  Around 4:30 the nurse came in and said that they called and should be here around 7:30.  I ate my dinner (chicken parm w/penne pasta) and got all my things organized and packed up.  Colin had taken the majority of it home with him yesterday to be ahead of the game so I didn't have much to do.  At 7:30 the nurse gave me my meds.  The ambulance still wasn't here yet:  I watched tv for a little bit and a little after 8 the emt came to my room.  They put me on a stretcher and off we went.  We just left and he said it would take a little over 4 hours to get there.  I'm in the ambulance and headed to Pittsburgh.  Wish me safe travels and good luck!!!