Hard to believe but its been two weeks today since Rachel got her new heart! Yesterday, she walked around the entire unit, stopping only a couple of times, to catch her breath. She is still a little unstable on her feet and it has been suggested that she go to the gym starting this week to do exercises to help strengthen her leg muscles.
Also, she is scheduled to go down sometime tomorrow for another swallow study. Please be praying that she passes this test as this would allow her to begin to start eating and drinking. She has been working on a "Things I want to drink" and "Things I want to eat" list.
Also, at some point this week, she should go down to the cath-lab for her first post-transplant biopsy. Haven't heard a specific date as of yet.
And, at some point today, we should finally be able to get a look at her old heart. One of the transplant docs told us late last week that we should be able to see it today.
Now that the long holiday weekend is over and everyone is back in place, physical therapy should come by more than one time today which means that she should be getting up to walk at least twice today.
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