Update

Ok so it's been week since I updated you all!
Monday we went to chicago for a check up with his post transplant Dr & his diabetes Dr. Everythings went awesome! Dr. Alex (lung dr.) told us everything is really good, he blew his highest pulmonary function test ever and Dr. told him he is breathing almost like a normal person(someone with out CF)!! That was the highlight of our day...it was awesome! God continues to amaze us.
Dr. Mazuri....(diabetes Dr.) told us he pretty much barely has diabetes and he is on meds for it but it's like barely anything. She wants to do a few blood test and she did a bone density scan to keep everything updated and to make sure nothing as changed.
Today we leave at about 12:30 for Chicago for a follow up with his Sinus surgery dr. (Dr. Welch). He will hopefully pull all the packing out so he won't have so much pressure or headaches! We will be home tonight.
It's amazing to be on this side of things. We worried everyday once he was on the transplant list when he would get his transplant or when the CF would take him. Now it's like life is open ended again. It's just awesome! We have SOOO much to be thankful for and we are thankful for it all! We know that with out our Awesome God it would have been a really tough road!
After today we go up next Wends for a bronchoscopy(they go into his lungs, get biopsies to look for rejection & to just look around). That same day we also get to meet up with a couple we met while in the hospital. Hester & Gordon-she had a single lung transplant and she was in the OR the same time Brent was and we see them occasionally when we are at clinic check ups! Please keep them in your prayers along with, Jordan Ulrich (CF), Jordan Shroader (cancer) and all of their family members as they fight.
Praise God for whom ALL Blessings flow!!!

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  1. AnonymousSeptember 20, 2009 at 6:50 AM

    Thanks for the update, you both have been in my thoughts everyday. So glad all is going so well. Love you both.
    Marty

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