Friday afternoon

Here is what we learned this afternoon regarding the heart transplant.  The process has started and over the next several days there will be a number of procedures/tests and evaluations to be done.  All of this is done to find out whether or not she is candidate for transplant.  The transplant coordinator told us that we should find out sometime late next week whether or not she is a candidate, and if so, that is when she is added to the list and the clock begins ticking to find a new heart.  That means that at any minute, once she is on the list, that we could get a call for the procedure to take place.
When I asked the coordinator about what happens if the procedures/tests and evaluations come back negative, she just said that "we won't go there."  She said that everything from this point on needs to be thought of on a positive side.
The surgeon has commented a couple of times that although a transplant sounds scary he would much rather put her through this process rather than another open-heart surgery that might not even improve her quality of life.  As he has said, she has never had a strong, normal heart and that her heart has always been abnormal and this could be the start of whole different life experience for her.