We met Jayme's liver team yesterday and they rock! Her hepatologist, Dr. Franco came highly recommended by our med student home teacher and I can see why. Everyone in his office was so nice with Jayme and we met with the transplant coordinator, the physician's assistant, and his nurse. They truly are a team. They had already discussed her case on Monday (thanks to Mike for giving them the heads up and getting the Colorado records sent over) and were all up to date. Her doctor is very much the get down to business type. He came in and in a very nice way quickly explained why she is so tired (low blood pressure due to dehydration because of all the water pills they had her on), what needed to be done to get on the list and how the list works. Where you are placed on the list is dependant upon a score, which is determined by 3 tests. I don't remember right off what they are, but she hadn't had them yet, so they couldn't really speculate where she would be. They were all so nice and competent! It is amazing what a difference that combination can make. There are about a million tests that she has to complete before getting on the list. They want to make sure that there are no little things that are going to flare up when she is immuno-supressed after the operation. She has to get a pap, mammogram (lucky her), dental exam, colonoscopy (again, lucky her), upper GI scope, heart stress test, lung test, bone density test, CT scans and more. The next few weeks we will be practically living at the hospital. We are lucky that it is so close and that we are able to do everything there.

She is feeling a lot better now that she has gone off the water pills. It's a good thing, because she is going to need her strength to get through all this testing!