Doug’s First Post...

Tweet I enjoyed three liquid meals today. Chicken both, beef broth and a little more chicken broth. Plus I had jello and a tasty Italian ice. Now you’d think that much broth would gag me, but actually it was pretty delicious. And after each meal I was stuffed to the gizzards. I’m still peeing in a bag but the good news that bag has been overflowing all day. Not on the floor but in the measuring cup that shows the kidney is kicking...

Comments...

Tweet Thank you everyone for your nice comments. As Doug and Izaak are lucid and able, they are reading some of your nice words. Because of Doug’s immunosuppressant medication, his room has to be very sterile, so he does not have flowers and such lining his rooms. Instead, Doug is able to read all of your kind words that have been posted throughout. Truth be told Doug and I would both prefer to be online than in a flower shop any day. David Legg came by Doug’s room today while Doug was first...

C-ya...

Tweet Annie, Izaak’s girlfriend, left to return to her mission trip in Leslie county, Kentucky. For two weeks several hundred people are in Leslie county repairing roofs and making other structural improvements. Tonight is the big carnival in the town, so she is going to go back up there for one night and return tomorrow. Her trip down was very nice for Izaak–it put a big smile on his face. ...

Thumbs Up...

Tweet Both are up and about! Izaak is off of the morphine–quit cold turkey.  He is still in a fair amount of pain.  When they conduct the laproscopic surgery they filled him full of gas to expand the cavity, and now it has to naturally escape.  Needless to say, being around him is no different than usual.  Izaak’s creotin level is low, which is normal for the donor, but they may have to re-insert the IV.  He will not be discharged until the gas is out and the levels are down. Doug is...

Annie...

Tweet Izaak’s girlfriend (as of this morning), Annie, had planned a mission trip to Kentucky months ago.  She decided to go on the trip and come back on Friday to see Izaak.  As a surprise, she drove back to see him last night.  How...

Gimme...

Tweet “Gimme more, Gimme more,” Izaak said while pressing the morphine drip for every last drop. Instapundit is a better man than I. After blogging since 6:00 am, I cannot make sense of much anymore. Both of the patients are doing very well. In fact, on the way to the 12th floor, the nurse told Doug that this is the most successful transplant that he has ever seen. Amazing. Thank you everyone for your amazing support. This has been a wonderful day, and as Donna (Izaak’s mom) has been...

Return #2...

Tweet A picture that I may post without complaint. FOLKS, they’re both back! Doug has finally made it back to his room. The nurse just said that he is doing very well.  The kidney is functioning, and he is coming out of the anesthesia very well. I will be able to speak with him in just a few minutes.  They have very strict guidelines to visitation because of the immunosuppressant drugs that he is on–basically he will have no immune system until they regulate his drugs.  I will post back on...

Viewing Pleasure...

Tweet As promised, here is a PICTURE OF THEIR KIDNEY because of some of my more squeamish viewers, I have made this an external...

Stabilizing...

Tweet The nurse just said that Doug is still stabilizing in recovery.  They are hoping that he will be coming up within the hour. Izaak is oscillating between consciousness and morphine la-la-land.  As a joke, we put his hand in warm water, but his catheter spoiled any of our fun.  At first I thought someone had played a nasty joke by cutting his hair in surgery but then we realized that it was just the “curly eagle” gone...

Return #1...

Tweet “I love you man” Izaak softly said, and with that he drifted back into...