Catch Up

As of today, the plan is to bring Jayme out to Milwaukee on Friday. Mike left this last Friday thinking that he would be returning with her tonight, but the situation with her belly button is worse than what we thought (she developed a hole in her peritoneum though her belly button that needs to be fixed). She is scheduled for surgery (basically just stitching it closed) on Tuesday and the doctors say she should be able to travel by Thursday and she may even be well enough to just come to our place instead of going straight to the hospital like we thought. We'll see though. All of our plans keep changing, so who knows. She is feeling better this past few days - I think it has really helped her to have Mike out there with her. They have been watching movies and hanging out at the hospital. In his spare time, Mike has been cleaning up the house, getting it ready to sell. According to the neighbor, it was just a drug house, so even though he has changed the locks, he is a little bit afraid to be there alone. I can't say I blame him.

Otherwise we are just doing whatever we can to get things ready to go for her. We went and picked up some medical supplies the other day and I am working on the Medicaid application. I have run into a little bit of a problem in that I don't know which name to put on the application:). SSI seems to have gone through, so she should have enough to pay the mortgage until the house sells, which is very nice.

Hopefully with SSI going through, we will be able to get her on Medicaid out here quickly so she can be evaluated for a liver transplant. I did look up the info on liver transplants out here vs. Denver and it looks good. The list is a lot shorter (80 or so vs. 475 or something like that). Froedert (the hospital she will be going to out here) has a 81% transplant rate vs. University of Denver's 17%. That makes us hopeful that she will have a much better chance of getting something out here. We will keep our fingers crossed!